![]() ![]() Air Forces Africa Commander, Allied Air Command, headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, Germany and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany. Prior to assuming his current position, the general served as Commander, U.S. The general has also served on the Joint Staff as the Director for Operations, in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, as Director of Legislative Liaison and in Headquarters staff positions at U.S. ![]() He has fought in operations Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. He has commanded the 19th Fighter Squadron, the 1st Operations Group, the 485th Air Expeditionary Wing, the 47th Flying Training Wing, the 325th Fighter Wing, the 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force-Afghanistan, and the 12th Air Force. Wolters received his commission in 1982 as a graduate of the U.S. He is responsible to NATO's Military Committee for the conduct of all NATO military operations. As SACEUR, he is one of NATO's two strategic commanders and commands Allied Command Operations (ACO), which is responsible for the planning and execution of all Alliance operations. defense operations and relations with NATO and 51 countries. The command is comprised of more than 60,000 military and civilian personnel and is responsible for U.S. forward-deployed geographic combatant commands whose area of focus spans across Europe, portions of Asia and the Middle East, the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). Prior to that, he served in Iraq and Afghanistan.Gen. Scaparrotti comes to the top NATO military post after serving as head of U.S. and allied forces regarding when to respond with force to safeguard their security. He said one of his first actions as NATO's commander will be to review the rules of engagement for U.S. He added that Russia needs to know the United States will take action if American lives were endangered. "I think they're pushing our envelope in terms of our resolve," he said. senators during hearings last month that the Russian flybys are deliberately provocative and dangerous. Scaparrotti has taken a tough line against the harassment, telling U.S. The close flybys have created growing concern that they could lead to a direct confrontation. ![]() Russian warplanes routinely buzz NATO warships in the Baltics and the Black Sea as both sides have stepped up military exercises in response to the Ukraine crisis. guided-missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea last month. However, Scaparrotti's most immediate challenge could be to lay down a clear boundary beyond which NATO units will not tolerate mounting harassment by Russian forces.Ī Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft made a close flyby to a U.S. Anxiety remains particularly high in the Baltics and Poland over a possible threat from Russia. The rotations have sought to reassure nervous NATO allies in the wake of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and amid Kyiv's ongoing conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. To date, however, Washington has preferred to rotate additional troops in and out of Europe rather than permanently station more on the continent. Scaparrotti's desire for more troops in Europe echoes the position of NATO's outgoing military commander, U.S. military personnel permanently stationed in Europe, down from roughly 300,000 during the Cold War. Any additional permanent deployment of troops would reverse reductions over the past four years, during which Washington deactivated two brigades in Europe due to budget pressures and new threats in the Middle East and Asia. troops in Europe to bolster the two brigades presently deployed in Germany and Italy. Scaparrotti has said he will press Washington to station a third permanent brigade of U.S. His appointment comes at a time when the alliance regards Moscow as a threat to stability over its actions in Ukraine and has largely given up on military or civilian cooperation with Russia. Scaparrotti became supreme allied commander Europe at a May 4 ceremony at NATO's military headquarters near Mons, in southern Belgium. He added that the Atlantic alliance's forces must be "ready to fight should deterrence fail." Army General Curtis Scaparrotti said earlier this week upon taking command of U.S. "We face a resurgent Russia and its aggressive behavior that challenges international norms," U.S. NATO has a new supreme commander, whose job is to strengthen it as a defense force after years of reductions of U.S. ![]()
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