JTC FOUNDATION

JTC Foundation was founded in 1981 but on March 30, 2011. The name of the foundation was derived from his son Dr. Jonathan Todd Clinard the youngest sibling of Dempsey Brown Clinard, Jr. and has been created in his loving memory Dempsey died on March 28, 2011, leaving behind a daughter Lynn (58 years old) and a three sons Michael (59 years old) Gregory (57 years old) and Jonathan (50 years old). It was because of his four children and what was to become of their future that inspired our mission.

Our primary mission is to help the young people of our world who have lost an immediate family member, are in a single parent family, are a foster child, or show a financial need. Any one of these events can be detrimental to a young person and can alter their focus on their future. We hope by offering a scholarship, to those who have experienced such events, that it would help guide them in a positive direction.

JTC Foundation Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) public charity corporation and is comprised of volunteers, friends, and family members. No one involved with the foundation receives a wage for the work they do. Any donations that we collect go towards helping our community and to pay for our operating costs. At times, some of the operating costs are absorbed personally as part of our own contribution to the foundation which in turn is our contribution to the community.

The JTC Foundation not only benefits the youth but in a way it also benefits our members. Through helping those who have experienced similar events or needs, it makes us feel good to be able to contribute in loving memory of Dempsey Brown Clinard, Jr. The foundation is about sharing through friends, sharing through family experiences, and sharing through financial assistance.

JTC Foundation’s contributions so far have been in the form of supporting projects for the World Job & Food Bank, Humanitarian donations, Poverty victims, Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.

Our goal with this year’s fundraiser is to collect enough funds to expand to even more to Africa, Asia, Middle East and Europe and to possibly offer bigger awards for next year. Our long term goals will still be to focus on scholarships, projects that are supported by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, US Treasury and Federal Reserve but we would also like to start new projects that would benefit our community in other ways as well.

Won’t you please help us in accomplishing our goal of helping guide our children in a positive way? We are asking that you assist us by making a donation for a good cause!

Special Operations Center, Pacific Command was established 1 November 1965. Headquartered in Okinawa, the unit provided unconventional warfare task force support for operations in Southeast Asia. After these functions transferred to the Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC) staff and subordinate commands, Special Operations Center, Pacific Command dissolved on 1 July 1969. A special operations staff was established in the CINCPAC Operations Directorate on 15 May 1976, to meet increasing requirements for planning and coordinating in-theater special operations.

In October 1983, the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed the establishment of Special Operations Commands in the Pacific and European Theaters. Special Operations Command, Pacific (SOCPAC) was subsequently activated on 1 November 1983 with an initial total strength of only eighteen personnel. Six years later, on 28 December 1989, SOCPAC was assigned operational control (OPCON) of what is now the 353d Special Operations Group and 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), which are located on Okinawa, Japan at Kadena Air Base and Torii Station, respectively. On 8 July 1991, SOCPAC assumed OPCON of Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Pacific and a subordinate SEAL platoon, which are based at Apra Harbor Naval Station, Guam. In early March 2001, SOCPAC established the Joint Special Operations Aviation Component on Oahu, Hawaii. Three months later, on 11 June 2001, SOCPAC gained OPCON over E Company, 160th Special Operations Regiment (Airborne), which is based in Taegu, Republic of Korea.

As a subordinate unified command of USPACOM, SOCPAC and its component units deploy throughout the Pacific, supporting USPACOM's Theater Security Cooperation Program, deliberate plans, and real world contingencies. SOCPAC elements annually conduct small unit exchanges, joint and combined training events, and operational deployments throughout the Pacific, fostering interoperability with host nation partners and facilitating strategic and operational objectives. Subordinate elements play a major role in ongoing counterdrug and humanitarian demining operations, training host nation forces in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and other Theater countries. SOCPAC also hosts an annual Pacific Area Special Operations Conference in Hawaii, which attracts over 200 U.S. and foreign delegates and provides unique information exchange opportunities.

The command maintains a honed capability to operate as a rapidly deployable Joint Task Force (JTF). In January 2002, soon after terrorists attacked the United States, SOCPAC deployed to the Southern Philippines as JTF 510, conducting counterterrorist operations with the Philippine Government under Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. JTF 510 redeployed on 1 September 2002, leaving stay-behind elements to form Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines and continue operations with the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Today, SOCPAC forces are operating in multiple high-priority Pacific Theater countries, increasing partner nation capabilities to defeat international terrorism, improving cultural understanding, and fully prepared to meet emerging threats.