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The amendment gave CINCPAC responsibility for the entire Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa, including the Gulfs of Aden and Oman and all of the Indian Ocean Islands excepting the Malagasy Republic. This decision expanded PACOM's AOR across more than 50% of the Earth's surface an area of over 100 million square miles.
The AOR map indicates that the AOR for USINDOPACOM, and therefore that of JIATF West, lies within the Pacific Ocean from Antarctica at 092" W, north to 08° N, west to 112° W, northwest to 50° N/142' W, west to 170' E, north to 53° N, northeast to 65'30' N/169' W, north to 90' N, the Arctic Ocean west of 169" W and east of 100" E; including ...
The command's area of responsibility extends from the west coast of the United States to the east coast of Asia and from the Arctic to the Antarctic, more than 100,000,000 square miles (260,000,000 km 2). The area is home to nearly two billion people who live in 44 countries.
Area of responsibility (AOR) is a pre-defined geographic region assigned to Combatant commanders of the Unified Command Plan (UCP), that are used to define an area with specific geographic boundaries where they have the authority to plan and conduct operations; for which a force, or component commander bears a certain responsibility.
Even after the removal of MARCENT from its area of responsibility, MARFORPAC remains the largest field command in the Marine Corps. [2] [3] A subordinate command for Marines in South Korea (Marine Corps Forces Korea or MARFORK) was also created in 1995, answering to MARFORPAC and U.S. Forces Korea. [4]
Unified combatant commands are organized either on a geographical basis (known as an "area of responsibility", AOR) or on a functional basis, e.g., special operations, force projection, transport, and cybersecurity. Currently, seven combatant commands are designated as geographical, and four are designated as functional.
US Army Forces, Central Pacific Area (1943–44) US Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas (1944–69) US Army Forces, Middle Pacific (1945–47) US Army, Pacific (1947–1974) US Army Western Command (1979–1990) United States Army Pacific (1990–present)
It was at this same time U.S. coalition partners were seeking greater interoperability within the USPACOM Area of Responsibility (AOR). [9] As a result, APAN was created in March 2000 [10] to provide partner nations with a non-dot-mil (.mil), unclassified link into the Virtual Information Center to establish a way to communicate worldwide. [11]