On March 28, Air Force General Philip Breedlove, CE 77, was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as commander of NATO’s United States European Command as well as its 17th Supreme Allied Commander. Breedlove assumed the posts in May and is now responsible for all NATO missions and operations, including 110,000 NATO troops in the Baltics, the Balkans, the horn of Africa and the Mediterranean. Breedlove is a four-star general in the U.S. Air Force and previously served as commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe.










