What does OPC stand for?

Chad is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and flew 45 missions in support of Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq.

Operation Provide Comfort, implemented to provide humanitarian assistance to the Kurds and enforce a "no-fly" zone in Iraq, north of the 36th parallel, began in April 1991.

He commanded Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq at the end of the first Gulf war, then became Saceur, Nato's supreme allied commander in Europe, before Clinton appointed him chairman of the joint chiefs in 1993, a position he held until his retirement in 1997.

He served in Guatemala, Panama and Italy, and was assigned to Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Desert Storm, during which he helped train U.

Commanding general, Joint Task Force Bravo Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, 1991.

The brigade also coordinated all engineer efforts of a joint and combined engineer force, providing construction and relief support to Kurdish refugees during Operation Provide Comfort.

Thornton's career includes flying 41 combat missions in northern Iraq in support of Operation Provide Comfort, a humanitarian relief effort for Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq.

The seventh chapter examines postwar events, such as mineclearing, redeployment of forces and equipment, Operation PROVIDE COMFORT, the homecoming receptions, maritime interception and sanctions enforcement operations, the establishment and conduct of no-fly zones north of the thirty-sixth parallel and south of the thirty-second, and punitive Tomahawk strikes throug h 1993.