The Army is standing up a new Western Hemisphere Command effective Friday, consolidating three major commands under a single headquarters as part of the sweeping restructuring of the force.

The new command, headquartered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, will combine U.S. Army North, U.S. Army South and Army Forces Command, according to a Tuesday memo from Dan Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army. The memo further dictated that those subordinate commands will be formally inactivated Oct. 15 of next year.

The Army’s 18th Airborne Corps, Air Traffic Services Command and the 1st Army will also henceforth fall under the “regionally focused” Western Hemisphere Command.

The restructure also pulls the Army Reserve Command under Headquarters, Department of the Army, as a direct reporting unit to

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