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NATO [r]: Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949, with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. ^[e]
United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat ^[e]
United States European Command [r]: Add brief definition or description

Iraq War [r]: (2003-2011) Invasion and occupation of Iraq by a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to depose Saddam Hussein, who was accused of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (which were never found). ^[e]
International Security Assistance Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
Third United States Army [r]: Add brief definition or description

Afghanistan War (1978–1992) [r]: A civil war in Afghanistan that matched the Soviet Union and its Afghan allies against a coalition of anti-Communist groups called the mujahideen, supported from the outside by the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. ^[e]
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. [r]: Brigadier general, United States Army Reserve, assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division, who received the Medal of Honor for valor as the only general to go ashore with the first U.S. amphibious assault wave of the "D-Day" invasion at the Battle of Normandy; son of President Theodore Roosevelt ^[e]
Tommy Franks [r]: Head of United States Central Command during the start of the Afghanistan War (2001-2021) and Iraq War; retired as a general ^[e]
United States Military Academy [r]: The undergraduate professional college of the United States Army, at West Point, New York ^[e]
(USEUCOM) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Secretary of the Navy (U.S.) [r]: U.S. civilian official, of Assistant Secretary of Defense rank, who heads the U.S. Department of the Navy and to whom the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps report ^[e]