Train Advise Assist Command – South (TAAC – South) was a multinational military formation , part of NATO 's Resolute Support Mission within Afghanistan. Prior to 2014 it was designated Regional Command South, under the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
24-501: It was responsible for provincial reconstruction and security in Zabul , Kandahar , Daykundi , and Uruzgan Province . Its primary Afghan National Army partners were the 205th Corps and the 404th Zone Police Corps. NATO countries contributing troops included Albania , Bulgaria , Canada , France , Lithuania , Netherlands , Poland , Romania , Slovakia , the United Kingdom , and
48-529: A commission to review the role of graduate education in the Navy. In 1945, Congress passed legislation to make the school a fully accredited , degree-granting graduate institution. Two years later, Congress adopted legislation authorizing the purchase of an independent campus for the school. A postwar review team, which had examined 25 sites nationwide, had recommended the old Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California as
72-644: A key venue for NPS' quarterly Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) event that hosts research collaborators from around the country. The location also provides a great site for youth STEM activities and the SLAMR lab has already hosted a regional high school underwater robotics competition. NPS offers graduate programs through four graduate schools and twelve departments. The different schools and departments offer various PhD and M.S.-level degrees: Center for Homeland Defense and Security Emergency responders including local, tribal, state, and federal can enroll in
96-674: A new home for the Postgraduate School. During World War II, the Navy had leased the facilities, first for a pre-flight training school, then for part of the Electronics Training Program . Negotiations with the Del Monte Properties Company led to the purchase of the hotel and 627 acres (254 ha) of surrounding land for $ 2.13 million. The Naval Postgraduate School moved to Monterey in December 1951. Today,
120-472: A skilled birth attendant increased from 1% in 2005 to 5% in 2011. The overall literacy rate (6+ years of age) increased from 1% in 2005 to 19% in 2011. The overall net enrollment rate (6–13 years of age) fell from 31.3% in 2005 to 5% in 2011. As of 2021, the total population of the province is about 391,150, which is mostly a rural tribal society. According to the Naval Postgraduate School ,
144-419: A variety of programs including online distributed learning program, executive education programs, and most prominently a Master of Arts program. Masters of Arts Program The M.A. program is offered at no cost to eligible local, tribal, state, and federal officials. To accommodate participants' time constraints, NPS requires students to be in residence only two weeks every quarter (for a total of twelve weeks for
168-507: Is listed as dry shrub-land and pistachio . The high mountains of the northern portion of the province are in the Ghor - Hazarajat alpine meadow ecoregion, which is characterized by meadows, willows, and sea buckthorn . In 2006, the province's first airstrip was opened near Qalat , to be operated by the Afghan National Army , but also for use by commercial aviation. Twice weekly service
192-529: Is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan , located in the south of the country. It has a population of 249,000. Zabul became an independent province from neighbouring Kandahar in 1963. Historically, it was part of the Zabulistan region. Qalat serves as the capital of the province. The major ethnic group are Pashtuns . Primary occupations within Zabul are agriculture and animal husbandry. Zabul borders Oruzgan in
216-630: The Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS). CISR is America's foremost center for defense-related research and education in Information Assurance (IA), Inherently Trustworthy Systems (ITC), and defensive information warfare; and CHDS provides the first homeland security master's degree in the United States. On 27 November 2012, Vice Admiral Daniel T. Oliver (retired) and Provost Dr. Leonard Ferrari were relieved of duty by Secretary of
240-515: The Navy Ray Mabus . A Navy press release cited findings from a Naval Inspector General investigation which included Oliver's misuse of standard contracting procedures to circumvent federal hiring and compensation authorities. The investigation also found that both Oliver and Ferrari "inappropriately accepted gifts from an independent private foundation organized to support the school." In October 2013, retired Vice Adm. Ronald A. Route became
264-637: The U.S. Armed Forces, Department of Defense civilians and international partners. Established in 1909, the school also offers research fellowship opportunities at the postdoctoral level through the National Academies' National Research Council research associateship program. On 9 June 1909, Secretary of the Navy George von L. Meyer signed General Order No. 27, establishing a school of marine engineering at Annapolis, Maryland . On 31 October 1912, Meyer signed Navy General Order No. 233, which renamed
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#1732858318143288-524: The United States. Non-NATO countries contributing troops included Australia , New Zealand , and Singapore . Prior to 2014, this command was known as Regional Command – South. The command of the region previously rotated between Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, but eventually was assumed solely by the United States. The headquarters was located at Kandahar International Airport next to
312-743: The Wayne P. Hughes Jr. Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI) NWSI's mission is to expedite the DON's access to the university's intellect and resources for solving warfighting issues. NWSI consists of NPS' Senior Service Representatives and Warfare Chairs, as well as the Military Associate Deans of all four NPS graduate schools (international studies, operational and information sciences, engineering and applied sciences, and defense management). NWSI provides operational and functional expertise as well as access to all areas of study and research, every faculty member and
336-702: The city of Kandahar . In 2010, the command's original territory was split into two commands, with the new Regional Command Southwest headquartered in Helmand Province . Three Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) operated in Regional Command South: Kandahar PRT, Kandahar province, led by the United States; Qalat PRT, Zabul province, led by the U.S. and supported by Romania and the U.K.; and Tarin Kot PRT, Uruzgan province, led by Australia. Zabul Province Zabul ( Pashto / Dari : زابل )
360-597: The entire student body. NWSI also partners with outside entities, including the Naval War College , that complement their educational and research activities. In 2021, NPS refurbished a county wastewater treatment plant into an all-domain defense technology lab, The Sea Land Air Military Research (SLAMR) lab. Situated just across the street from NPS's main campus, the SLAMR facility houses a series of open-air water treatment tanks that were recently renovated and now serve as SLAMR's aquatic environment laboratory. SLAMR uses
384-469: The existing infrastructure, such as multiple 450,000 gallon water tanks that have been recently cleaned and renovated, as an affordable and sustainable location for research projects focusing on national defense applications in robotics, autonomous systems, cybersecurity and maritime related 5G telecommunications. The SLAMR lab site will see moderate day-to-day activity with a handful of researchers on site, and with its water-based capabilities, it will also be
408-696: The national poverty line , one of the highest figures of all of Afghanistan's provinces. Zabul is by many indications one of Afghanistan's most conservative provinces. The province is represented in Afghan domestic cricket by the Zabul Province cricket team. Naval Postgraduate School The Naval Postgraduate School ( NPS ) is a public graduate school operated by the United States Navy and located in Monterey, California . It offers master's and doctoral degrees in more than 70 fields of study to
432-420: The north, Kandahar in the west and in the south, Ghazni and Paktika in the east. It borders Pakistan in the east. The province covers an area of 17293 km2. Two-fifths of the province is mountainous or semi mountainous terrain (41%) while more than one quarter of the area is made up of flat land (28%). The primary ecoregion of the province is the central Afghan mountains xeric woodlands. Common vegetation
456-519: The population is primarily Pashtun , sprinkled throughout around 2,500 remote villages. Major tribal groups include the Tokhi, Hotak, Nasar, Kharoti, Taraki, Ghilji and the Noorzai and Panjpai Durrani . Pashto is the dominant language in the area. The people of Zabul are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim . Primary occupations within Zabul are agriculture and animal husbandry. 60.8% of the population lived below
480-496: The role as superintendent of the school in 1965. He himself graduated from the school in the 1930s with a degree in ordnance engineering . He would leave the role of superintendent in 1967 after retiring from the Navy. The Naval Postgraduate School has graduated more than 40 astronauts, greater than any other graduate school in the country. The school is home to the Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (CISR) and
504-506: The school has over 40 programs of study including highly regarded M.S. and PhD programs in management, national security affairs, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical and astronautical engineering, systems engineering, space systems and satellite engineering, physics, oceanography meteorology, and other disciplines, all with an emphasis on military applications. Former Guantanamo Bay Naval Base commander and World War II and Korean War veteran, RADM Edward J. O'Donnell , assumed
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#1732858318143528-558: The school the Postgraduate Department of the United States Naval Academy. The order established courses of study in ordnance and gunnery, electrical engineering , radio telegraphy , naval construction , and civil engineering and continued the program in marine engineering. During World War II , Fleet Admiral Ernest King , Chief of Naval Operations and Commander-in-Chief United States Fleet , established
552-861: The second civilian president of the Naval Postgraduate School. Vice Adm. Ann E. Rondeau relieved Route to become the 49th president of the university in January 2019. In 2019, NPS renamed its business school, the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, to the Graduate School of Defense Management (GSDM) in an effort to better signal its unique defense-focused identity and mission to strategic stakeholders and its academic peers. GSDM offers degree programs in nine different fields, ranging from logistics to information technology management to manpower, as well as three, unique distance learning programs. In December 2020, NPS leadership officially commissioned
576-659: Was scheduled by PRT Air between Qalat and Kabul . The airstrip is not paved. The ANA Chief in Zabul is Major General Jamaluddin Sayed Zabul Province is bisected by Highway 1 and travelers going between Kandahar and Kabul via road typically pass through the province. On 4 September 2016, at least 38 people were killed and 28 were injured during the September 2016 Afghanistan road crash . The percentage of households with clean drinking water increased from 0% in 2005 to 32% in 2011. The percentage of births attended to by
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