Ƙungiyar Jonathon

Admiral **Sir Jonathon Band** GCB DL (an haife shi a ranar 2 ga watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1950) jami'in sojan ruwa ne mai ritaya wanda ya kasance Ubangiji na farko na teku kuma Shugaban Ma'aikatan Sojan Ruwa daga shekara ta 2006 zuwa 2009. Kafin ya yi aiki a matsayin Ubangiji na farko na teku ya kasance Babban Kwamandan Rundunar Sojoji. Tun lokacin da ya zama Ubangiji na Tekun Farko, Band ya kasance mai ba da shawara game da kirkirar sabbin jiragen ruwa don fuskantar sabbin barazanar da kuma kula da matsayin Royal Navy a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan sojojin ruwa na duniya.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haife shi ɗan Victor da Muriel Band, Band ya halarci makarantu biyu masu zaman kansu: Brambletye School, makarantar shirye-shirye, a Ashurst Wood, West Sussex, kuma daga shekara goma sha uku, Haileybury da Imperial Service College .  Ya shiga Royal Navy a 1967, kafin ya fara horo a teku a Gabas ta Tsakiya. Ya koma Burtaniya a kan shirin digiri na farko kuma ya yi karatu na shekaru uku a Jami'ar Exeter, inda ya sami BA a shekarar 1972. 

## Farkon aikin sojan ruwa
Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Exeter, Band ya yi aiki a matsayin ƙaramin jami'in HMS ''Lewiston'' da HMS  . An tabbatar da shi a matsayin mataimakin mataimakin a ranar 1 ga Satumba 1971.  A tsakiyar shekarun 1970s, ya gudanar da shirin musayar tare da Sojojin Ruwa na Amurka kuma ya yi aiki a cikin jirgin ruwa mai linzami, USS , wanda yanzu ba ya aiki. An ɗaukaka shi zuwa mataimakin a ranar 30 ga watan Janairun shekara ta 1974. Bayan horo na yaki a 1976 da 1977 ya yi aiki na shekaru biyu a matsayin babban jami'in yaki da jami'in aiki a cikin jirgin ruwa na HMS  . Wannan nadin ya haɗa da turawa zuwa West Indies da Kudancin Atlantic.

Daga 1979 zuwa 1981 ya umarci mai tsere mai suna HMS Soberton  kusan kusan shekaru biyu a cikin Squadron Kare Kifi a bakin tekun Burtaniya. Tsakanin 1981 da 1983 ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin tutar ga kwamandan-in-Chief Fleet, lokacin da ya shiga cikin Falklands War . An ɗaukaka shi zuwa matsayin kwamandan a ranar 30 ga Yuni 1983,  ya ɗauki kwamandan jirgin ruwa na HMS  .  Jirgin ya yi aiki a cikin ruwan NATO, a lokacin kwarewar aiki ta farko ta RN tare da jirgin ruwa da ke janyewa. A shekara ta 1985 ya halarci Kwalejin Tsaro ta hadin gwiwa kuma nan da nan aka nada shi a Ma'aikatan Tsaro a Ma'aikatar Tsaro a cikin Daraktan Manufofin Tsaro. An ɗaukaka shi zuwa kyaftin a ranar 30 ga Yuni 1988, [1] ya bar Daraktan Manufofin kuma ya umarci HMS  . [1] Har ila yau, shi ne ke da alhakin taimakawa wajen sake samar da 9th Frigate Squadron, na farko Type 23 frigate squadron.

A shekara ta 1991, ya zama Mataimakin Darakta na Shirye-shiryen Sojan Ruwa da Shirye-sauye a Ma'aikatar Tsaro, lokacin da ya ga aiwatar da "Zaɓuɓɓuka don Canji". A shekara ta 1994 ya kasance memba na Sakatariyar Nazarin Kudin Tsaro (Front Line First). An nada shi Aide-de-Camp ga Sarauniya a ranar 9 ga Afrilu 1995.  Umurninsa na karshe na teku shine na HMS Illustrious, mai ɗaukar jirgin sama, tsakanin 1995 da 1997. Lokacin ya haɗa da turawa biyu zuwa Adriatic inda shi da Illustrious suka goyi bayan sa hannun Amurka, Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, da ayyukan NATO a Bosnia.

A watan Mayu na shekara ta 1997 an ɗaga shi zuwa matsayi na tutar kuma an inganta shi zuwa Admiral na baya. Ya koma Ma'aikatar Tsaro a matsayin Mataimakin Shugaban Ma'aikatan Sojan Ruwa. Wannan nadin ya haɗa da lokacin Strategic Defence Review, wanda ya shiga cikin gudummawar Royal Navy ga bita. Ya bar wannan nadin a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1999 kuma ya ɗauki matsayin shugaban ƙungiyar Ilimi da Nazarin Horarwa a watan Janairun shekara ta 2000  tare da matsayin mataimakin admiral. 

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