The Combined Task Force 152 or CTF-152 is a multinational naval task force, set up in 2004 to coordinate security operations in the Persian Gulf and is one of three task forces operated by Combined Maritime Forces (CMF). In July 2007 a crew from the destroyer USS O'Kane, attached to CTF-152, boarded a North Korean ship suspected of smuggling. CTF 152 cooperates with the naval and coast guard forces of different nations of the Persian Gulf region, and its command is rotated among member nations. Bahrain was the first Gulf Cooperation Council state to take command of the task force, in 2008.
Known commanders +Commander Combined Task Force 152 From Commander Dates Ref Rear Admiral Ray Spicer ? – June 2006 Rear Admiral Salvatore Ruzittu June 2006 – ? Italians Assume Command of CTF 152. US Defense Department, 28 June 2006 Rear Admiral William E. Gortney ? – March 2008 Commodore Abdullah al-Mansoori March 2008 – June 2008 Bahrain Assumes Command of CTF 152. US Navy, 4 March 2008 Commodore Peter Hudson June 2008 – September 2008 Bahrain Hands Command of CTF 152 to the UK. US Navy, 5 June 2008 Rear Admiral James P. Wisecup September 2008 – Commodore Tim Lowe – November 2009 Combined Task Force 152 Holds Change of Command. US Navy, 10 November 2009 Commodore Tareq Khalfan al-Zaabi November 2009 – May 2010 CTF 152: Kuwaiti Command Period In Focus. Combined Maritime Forces, 13 December 2010 Rear Admiral Jassim al-Ansari May 2010 – August 2010 Commodore Abdullah Dashti August 2010 – ? Rear Admiral Jassim al Ansari ? – January 2011 Colonel Dashti Assumes Command of Combined Task Force 152. Bahrain assumes command of Combined Task Force 152. US Central Command, 6 January 2011 Commodore Isa al-Doseri January 2011 – Commodore Nayef al-Askar February 2016 – September 2016 Colonel Alaskar and the Kuwait Naval Force hand over command of CTF 152. Combined Maritime Forces, 20 September 2016 Commodore Abdelkader Al-Marahleh September 2016 – September 2017 Kuwait hands over Command of CTF 152 to Jordan. Combined Maritime Forces Captain Abdullah al-Bader September 2017 – September 2018 Jordan Hands Over to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in CTF152 Change of Command Ceremony. Combined Maritime Forces, 14 September 2017KUWAIT'S CIAST GUARD BECOMES FIRST TO COMMAND A COMBINED TASK FORCE FOR CMF. Combined Maritime Forces, 12 September 2018 Captain Saleh Alfodary September 2018 – COMMANDER COMBINED TASK FORCE 152 VISIT TO HMS SHOREHAM. Combined Maritime Forces, 20 November 2018Kuwait heads CTF152. Maritime Security Review, 6 September 2018 – – Commander Omar Alodat – Captain Ali bin Madi Al-Qahtani – Colonel Ebraheem Al-Dawai –
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External links CTF 152 main website