What does JSOC stand for?

On October 4, the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, Vice Admiral William McRaven, met Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to discuss cooperation against Al-Qaeda, the US embassy in Yemen said.

On October 4, the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, Vice Admiral William McRaven, met Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to discuss cooperation against Al-Qaeda, the US embassy in Yemen said.

It called it a rebuke of Bush's foreign policies instead of explaining it legitimizes wars and conflicts, the same ones Obama's pursuing more aggressively in Afghanistan and Pakistan under a general (Stanley McChrystal) James Petras calls a "notorious psychopath" - responsible for committing war crime atrocities when he headed the Pentagon's infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

McChrystal, 54, was the commanding general of the Joint Special Operations Command in Fort Bragg, North Carolina from September 2003 to February 2006, and then commander of Joint Special Operations Command until August 2008.

Joint Special Operations Command for several years, has been serving as director of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon under Adm.

McChrystal headed the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that previously reported to Dick Cheney, with no congressional oversight.

A clear signal of the new strategy was the sacking this week of General David McKiernan, the top US commander in Afghanistan considered too conventional, and his replacement by a counter-insurgency expert, Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal, who commanded America's Joint Special Operations Command for five years, from 2003 to 2008.

Major Command Championships Joint Special Operations Command Pistol/Rifle Competition (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) This is a week-long combat pistol and bull's-eye marksmanship competition in April.