CAF Service Commands have a responsibility to enable the functioning of the CAF Services and to prepare subordinate commands and units to carry out their tasks. Service commands participate in professional development and have a responsibility to provide training for Active Duty and Reserve personnel. Croatian Defense Academy (CDA) provides military education for Armed Forces requirements. It is responsible for conducting scientific research and publishing activities. Support Command (SC) provides continued logistics, medical and other support to CAF commands and units when executing their tasks at home and abroad. It also provides functional training to CAF members in the field of Logistics. Special Operations Forces Command (SOFCOM) plans and conducts special operations and activities in order to support and protect national interests. The Special Operations Forces Command will be responsible for training and equipping Special Operations Forces, doctrine development and it will also coordinate preparations for Special Operations training. Military Representations (MRs) represent the Croatian Armed Forces and perform other professional tasks related to participation in the activities and supervision of different Boards, Working Groups, Standing and Interim bodies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, the Allied Command Operations (ACO) and the Allied Command Transformation (ACT). Court Martial (MC) represents an autonomous and independent body who decides on disciplinary liability of CAF members for committing a disciplinary offence and material liability of CAF members. It will con- sist of General Court Martial in Zagreb and District Courts Martial in Osijek and Split. Sub-Staff Units are established for the purpose of developing capabilities to carry out different tasks and support activities that other CAF components, due to its specificity or scope, cannot provide within their organic entities. Figure 2: The CAF General Staff structure CAF General Staff Croatian Armed Forces General Staff will be organized into the following organizational units shown in Figure 2. The Chief of the General Staff is the Head of the CAF General Staff. He is superior to commands, units and institutions of the Armed Forces, the Croatian Military Representative to NATO and the EU as part of the Permanent Representation of Croatia to NATO, the Croatian National Military 25