Commander's Vision & Priorities
Vision
UNC/CFC/USFK
A trained, ready, and disciplinedCombined and Joint Combatant Command that is ready to fight and win.
A command that:
- Leads, integrates, and directs all available forces during armistice, crisis or war -constantly working to strengthen our ROK-US Alliance.
- Continues transformation efforts leading to OPCON transfer in 2012 while remaining prepared to fight tonight. Develops and builds alliances and partnerships.
- Improves the quality of life for all service members, DOD civilians and their families.
Priority #1: Be Prepared to Fight and Win
- Be ready to fight and win our nations’wars. This is our nonnegotiable contract with the American and Korean people.
- Know the enemy, the terrain, and your job –Do it better than anyone else.
- Readiness –have your kit bag, equipment, and organization ready.
- Maintain your warfightingskill sets through tough, realistic training and theater level exercises. Leverage all available ROK and US Training facilities and ranges.
- Integrate and operate with ROK forces and supporting agencies; complement and mutually reinforce each others’capabilities.
- Continue to improve, enhance, and adjust your war plans as the environment changes –adaptive planning and flexibility.
Priority #2: Strengthen the Alliance
- Remain ready to Fight Tonight while working towards OPCON Transfer –Improve your current command structures, processes and procedures that will lead to world class combined warfightingcapabilities upon OPCON transfer on 1 Dec. 2015.
- Transfer, enhance, and improve our shared U.S. and ROK military capabilities –Collaborate and work together in the planning process; operational systems development; and lessons learned in order to seamlessly transferoperational control to the ROK.
- Train and exercise our combined forces –Expand opportunities to conduct combined training with ROK, US, and other forces in Northeast Asia.
- Support ROK initiatives to improve warfightingcapability which will maximize ROK potential to excel as the Supported command.
- Strengthen our Good Neighbor program -this will directly increase our deterrent value and increase our combined warfightingcapability.
Priority #3: Improve Quality of Life for Service Members, DoD Civilians, and Families –“Make Korea the Station of Choice”
- Safety –Leaders stay engaged at all levels; our service members, families and civilians are too valuable to lose
- Strengthen your Good Neighbor Program –this will provide more opportunities to see and learn about this wonderful country.
- Improve facilities and housing –Be aware of the living and working conditions of all subordinates and families…would you like to live and work there?
- Continue to increase Command Sponsorship in order to move towards tour normalization.
- Execute our plan to move to enduring installations while maintaining facilities at all bases until these installations are returned to the ROK.
- Expand and improve schools and health care –Unequaled education and health care systems.
- Increase opportunities for spouses –Provide education, employment, and family support programs for Family Members.
- Increase support for and access to our families back in the US –Affordable phone, internet, and airlines.
- Support family members residing in Korea whose sponsors are deployed.