Continental Northern Command

  

Continental Northern Command
Founded	1 October 1980 (44 years, 1 month ago)
Country	United Commonwealth
Type	Unified combatant command
Role	Geographic combatant command
Part of	Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission, People's Commissariat for Defense
Headquarters	Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, American CR
Motto(s)	"We have the watch"
Commanders
Commander	General
Deputy Commander	Lt General
CPUC First Commissar	Lt General
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Northern Command (NORTHCOM) is the unified combatant command of the Continental Armed Forces whose area of responsibility consists of the northeastern United Commonwealth. NORTHCOM is tasked with providing assistance to civil service and Continentalist Party authorities in its area of responsibility, which includes the entirety of the Congregationalist States, the Pennsylvania Dutch Autonomous Republic, and the northeastern part of the American Continental Republic, including the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington City. It also extends to the United Commonwealth's Chattanooga Pact allies of Quebec and the Maritimes.

Structure

Third Army (Army North)

The Continental Third Army is the Continental Army component of NORTHCOM (Army North) and is tasked with homeland defense and providing ground support to the civil and Party authorities in the northeastern United Commonwealth.

Fourth Air Force (Air Forces North)

The Fourth Air Force (Air Forces North)

Atlantic Fleet (Naval Forces North)

The Atlantic Fleet is the Continental Navy component of NORTHCOM (Naval Forces North) and is the largest fleet in the Navy, with 96,000 personnel serving aboard 150 ships and several shore establishments. Its mission is to generate forces to the commander of Northern Command for naval operations and to deter threats from the Continental waters in the Atlantic, as well as the waters of Quebec and the Maritimes. The Atlantic Fleet also generates forces for the Middle East and Mediterranean Squadron, which is a temporary formation that is stationed in Libya and Egypt to assist the United Commonwealth's regional partners, and provides support to Continental forces stationed in Europe, including in Italy and Spain.

III Marine Expeditionary Force (Marine Corps Forces North)

The III Marine Expeditionary Force is the Continental Marine Corps component of NORTHCOM (Marine Corps Forces North)

History

The Northern Command traces its origins to the founding of the Department of the East in 1861, which was founded during the American Civil War to manage the new military posts. Initially these were all units east of the Mississippi River, but a restructuring in 1863 meant that the Department of the East only covered those units in New York, New Jersey, and New England. The vast increase in the size of the Union Army during the Civil War years led to the creation of new regional districts to administer new formations. After the war in 1865 it became part of the Military Division of the Atlantic under President Andrew Johnson's regulations that split the army between regional military divisions that were each organized into several military departments. These broke away from the rest of the U.S. during the War of Contingency, leading to the dissolution of the department, with the Military Division of the Atlantic being reduced in size. After the Continental Revolutionary War, it was restored as the Department of the East in 1922 by the United Commonwealth of Continental States. In 1931, it was reorganized as the Northeastern Department, and included the territory of the Congregationalist States. In 1934, it became the Northern Command as part of Seamus Callahan's wartime reorganization of the Armed Forces, but it was dissolved in 1939.

In 1980, the creation of unified combatant commands by President Christopher Yeager led to the reactivation of Northern Command.