Supporting the Warfighter from the U.S. Naval Observatory

摘要

On March 19, 2011, as the U. S. Navy command ship USS Mount Whitney sliced through theMediterranean Sea off Sicily, Adm.Samuel J. Locklear III, the commander of U. S. Naval ForcesEurope and Africa, at that time, was given tactical command of U.S. and NATO forces to enforceUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, according to U.S. Army Gen. Carter Ham, thencommander of U.S. Africa Command in his "Commander Statement on Commencement of MilitaryStrikes in Libya," of March, 19, 2011.