{"id":1564,"date":"2023-04-05T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2023-04-06T03:46:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T03:46:51","slug":"new-commodore-takes-command-of-task-force-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"New Commodore Takes Command of Task Force 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Capt. Oliver Herion relieved Capt. Joseph \u201cKarl\u201d Haywood as the commander of Task Force 56 during a ceremony attended by leaders and members of U.S. 5th Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Haywood assumed command of Task Force 56 in February 2021. During his two-year tenure, he led more than 800 Sailors, Soldiers and civilians in eight subordinate task groups deployed across the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Expeditionary combat forces specialize in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), naval coastal warfare, naval construction, expeditionary intelligence and expeditionary logistics support. Under Haywood\u2019s leadership, Task Force 56 personnel participated in more than 20 joint and combined training exercises with regional partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for trusting me,\u201d said Haywood to his staff. \u201cYour support and professionalism has been beyond reproach.<\/p>\n<p>Haywood also led logistics coordination and planning during U.S. 5th Fleet\u2019s support for Operation Allies Refuge in 2021, which assisted the safe evacuation of more than 7,000 people from Afghanistan to the United States. U.S. 5th Fleet provided the evacuees meals, entertainment, short-term lodging and medical care during a temporary stop in Bahrain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Herion assumes command of Task Force 56 after most recently completing a tour at Joint Special Operations Command based in North Carolina. He has previously deployed with various EOD mobile units to the Indo-Pacific, Africa, Europe and Middle East regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to be back in the 5th Fleet of the world\u2019s finest Navy,\u201d said Herion. \u201cWe will continue the coordination, the integration and the interoperability that Capt. Haywood fostered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. 5th Fleet operating area includes 21 countries, the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea, parts of the Indian Ocean and three critical choke points at the Strait of Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb and Suez Canal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capt. Oliver Herion relieved Capt. Joseph \u201cKarl\u201d Haywood as the commander of Task Force 56 during a ceremony attended by leaders and members of U.S. 5th Fleet. Haywood assumed command of Task Force 56 in February 2021. During his two-year tenure, he led more than 800 Sailors, Soldiers and civilians in eight subordinate task groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}