United States Strategic Command | |
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Active | 1 June 1992 to present |
Country | United States of America |
Type | Functional Combatant Command |
Role | Strategic deterrence, global strike, integrated missile defense, global C4ISR |
Size | 150,000 personnel
14 Ballistic Missile Submarines 400 ICBMs 154 bombers |
Part of | Department of Defense |
Headquarters | Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, U.S. |
Nickname(s) | STRATCOM, USSTRATCOM |
Motto(s) | Peace is our Profession ... |
Website | www |
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Commander | Gen Anthony J. Cotton, USAF |
Deputy Commander | VADM Richard A. Correll, USN |
Command Senior Enlisted Leader | SgtMaj Howard L. Kreamer, USMC |
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The United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense. Headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic nuclear deterrence, global strike, and operating the Defense Department's Global Information Grid. It also provides a host of capabilities to support the other combatant commands, including integrated missile defense; and global command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR). This command exists to give "national leadership a unified resource for greater understanding of specific threats around the world and the means to respond to those threats rapidly".[1][2]