A report on United States Air Force, United States Department of Defense, United States Army and United States Armed Forces

The first F-35 Lightning II of the 33rd Fighter Wing arriving at Eglin AFB

The storming of Redoubt No. 10 in the Siege of Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War prompted Great Britain's government to begin negotiations, resulting in the Treaty of Paris and Great Britain's recognition of the United States as an independent state.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff in December 2020.

An Air Force RQ-4 strategic reconnaissance aircraft

President Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment of 1949

General Andrew Jackson standing on the parapet of his makeshift defenses as his troops repulse attacking Highlanders during the defense of New Orleans, the final major and most one-sided battle of the War of 1812

Organization of the military services and military departments within the Department of Defense

An Air Force KC-46 Pegasus refuels a C-17A Globemaster III

Department of Defense organizational chart (December 2013)

The Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the American Civil War

An Air Force A-10 demonstrating close air support at Nellis AFB

U.S. Army Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division return fire during a firefight with Taliban forces in Barawala Kalay Valley in Kunar province, Afghanistan on 31 March 2011.

Test launch of a LGM-30 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from Vandenberg AFB

Joint Chiefs of Staff/Joint Staff organizational chart

U.S. Army troops assaulting a German bunker in France, c. 1918

U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams tanks from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment maneuver in the streets as they conduct a combat patrol in the city of Tall Afar, Iraq, on Feb. 3, 2005.

Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base

Combatant command areas of responsibility

U.S. soldiers hunting for Japanese infiltrators during the Bougainville Campaign

Roundels that have appeared on U.S. military aircraft
1.) 5/1917–2/1918
2.) 2/1918–8/1919
3.) 8/1919–5/1942
4.) 5/1942–6/1943
5.) 6/1943–9/1943
6.) 9/1943–1/1947
7.) 1/1947–

Defense Spending as a Percent of GDP (1792–2017)

U.S. Army soldiers observing an atomic bomb test of Operation Buster-Jangle at the Nevada Test Site during the Korean War

U.S. Marines with India Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit run on the beach during an amphibious assault demonstration.

The SR-71 Blackbird was a Cold War reconnaissance plane.

Total United States Defense Outlays 1962–2024, $millions (2019-2024 estimated)

US tanks and Soviet tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, 1961

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft attached to VMX-22 prepares to land on the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) in the Pacific Ocean.

The F-117 Nighthawk was a stealth attack aircraft (retired from service in April 2008).

A U.S. Army infantry patrol moving up to assault the last North Vietnamese Army position at Dak To, South Vietnam during Operation Hawthorne

A row of Douglas C-54 Skymasters during the Berlin Airlift in 1949

U.S. Army soldiers preparing to take La Comandancia in the El Chorrillo neighborhood of Panama City during Operation Just Cause

USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) and Carrier Strike Group 3 underway with Republic of Korea Navy ships.

Various Air Force personnel pose during the Air Force's 74th birthday celebration at the Pentagon, September 17, 2021.

M1 Abrams tanks moving out before the Battle of Al Busayyah during the Gulf War

USS Nebraska (SSBN-739), an
ballistic missile submarine underway in the Atlantic Ocean.

Organization of the United States Air Force within the Department of Defense

Iraqi tanks destroyed by Task Force 1-41 Infantry during the Gulf War, February 1991

U.S. Army Rangers taking part in a raid during an operation in Nahr-e Saraj, Afghanistan

Pararescuemen and a simulated "survivor" watch as an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter comes in for a landing

U.S. Army soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division returning fire during a firefight with Taliban forces in Barawala Kalay Valley in Kunar province, Afghanistan, March 2011

U.S. Air Force B-2A Spirit stealth bombers flying with Royal Air Force F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters.

U.S. Air Force trainee demonstrating a butt stroke on a strike dummy as part of Basic Military Training.

Organization of the United States Army within the Department of Defense

The Sodium Guidestar at the Directed Energy Directorate's Starfire Optical Range for real-time, high-fidelity tracking and imaging of satellites.

A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack aircraft

Boeing X-37B spaceplane after deorbiting and landing.

U.S. Army soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, Maryland Army National Guard conducting an urban cordon and search exercise as part of the army readiness and training evaluation program in the mock city of Balad at Fort Dix, New Jersey

Service mark of the United States Coast Guard

A C-17 Globemaster III, the USAF's newest and most versatile transport plane

U.S. soldiers from the 6th Infantry Regiment taking up positions on a street corner during a foot patrol in Ramadi, Iraq

USCGC Hamilton and TCG Turgutries in the Black Sea, April 30, 2021.

E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system

The 1st Cavalry Division's combat aviation brigade performing a mock charge with the horse detachment

Coast Guard Reserve Port Security boat on patrol

F-22 Raptor stealth air superiority fighter

U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers from the 3rd Special Forces Group patrolling a field in the Gulistan district of Farah, Afghanistan

Unified combatant commands areas of responsibility

KC-10 Extender tri-jet air-to-air tanker

A pie chart showing global military expenditures by country for 2019, in US$ billions, according to SIPRI

Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester, awarded the Silver Star for direct combat

U.S. Army Rangers practicing fast roping techniques from an MH-47 during an exercise at Fort Bragg

A trainer with Company A, 1st Battalion 502nd Infantry Regiment, Task Force Strike, 101st Airborne Division assisting Iraqi army ranger students during a room clearing drill at Camp Taji, Iraq on 18 July 2016

RQ-170 Sentinel stealth unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance aircraft

U.S. Army soldiers familiarizing with the latest INSAS 1B1 during exercise Yudh Abhyas 2015

A Lockheed Martin Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system used for ballistic missile protection

A WC-130J Hercules from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

A U.S. soldier on patrol in Iraq with the support of a Humvee vehicle

An unarmed Minuteman III ICBM shoots out of the silo during an operational test launch

3rd Infantry Division soldiers manning an M1A1 Abrams in Iraq

An element of the 18th Infantry Regiment, wearing ASUs, representing the United States at the 2010 Victory Day commemoration in Moscow

The Ranger Honor Platoon marching in their tan berets and former service uniform

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

- United States Air Force

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

- United States Department of Defense

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

- United States Army

Originally created on August 1, 1907 as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.

- United States Air Force

The armed forces consists of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard.

- United States Armed Forces

The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and forms military policy with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out.

- United States Armed Forces

The United States Air Force is a military service branch organized within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense.

- United States Air Force

The U.S. Army is a uniformed service of the United States and is part of the Department of the Army, which is one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense.

- United States Army

On 26 July 1947, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which set up a unified military command known as the "National Military Establishment", as well as creating the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, National Security Resources Board, United States Air Force (formerly the Army Air Forces) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

- United States Department of Defense

1) the Department of the Army, within which the United States Army is organized.

- United States Department of Defense

Two years after World War II, the Army Air Forces separated from the army to become the United States Air Force in September 1947.

- United States Army

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United States Secretary of Defense

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Seal of the National Military Establishment (1947–1949)

Donald Rumsfeld is sworn-in as Secretary of Defense by Associate Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart as U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff General George S. Brown watch at The Pentagon on November 20, 1975.

The United States secretary of defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high ranking member of the federal cabinet.

Subject only to the orders of the president, the secretary of defense is in the chain of command and exercises command and control, for both operational and administrative purposes, over all service branches administered by the Department of Defense – the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force – as well as the Coast Guard when its command and control is transferred to the Department of Defense.

United States Marine Corps

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U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit training

Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit depart USS Tarawa (LHA-1), using both a Landing Craft Utility and CH-53E "Super Stallion" helicopters, during amphibious operations in Kuwait, 2003.

Maj. Samuel Nicholas, first Commandant of the Marine Corps, was nominated to lead the Continental Marines by John Adams in November 1775.

British and U.S. troops garrisoned aboard Hornet and Penguin exchanging small arms musket fire with Tristan da Cuna in the background during the final engagement between British and U.S. forces in the War of 1812

The Final Stand at Bladensburg, Maryland, 24 August 1814

Five USMC privates with fixed bayonets, and their NCO with his sword at the Washington Navy Yard, 1864

Georges Scott, American Marines in Belleau Wood, 1918

Former French Foreign Legion Lieutenant, and U.S. Marine Corps officer Peter J. Ortiz, who served in the European theater, often behind enemy lines

Photograph of the Marine Corps War Memorial, which depicts the second U.S. flag-raising atop Mount Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. The memorial is modeled on Joe Rosenthal's famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

F4U Corsairs providing close air support to Marines of the 1st Marine Division fighting Chinese forces in North Korea, December 1950

U.S. Marines of "G" Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines in action during Operation Allen Brook in South Vietnam, 1968

Beirut Memorial at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

U.S. Marines from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines entering a palace in Baghdad in 2003

U.S. Marines dismounting from an Assault Amphibious Vehicle in Djibouti

Organization of the United States Marine Corps

Opha Johnson (far right) in 1946, with Katherine Towle (far left). They are looking at Opha Johnson's uniform being worn by PFC Muriel Albert.

Two of the first female graduates of the School of Infantry-East's Infantry Training Battalion course, 2013

Marine recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

An illustration of U.S. Marines in various uniform setups. From left to right: A U.S. Marine in a Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform with full combat load circa 2003, a U.S. Marine in a (full) blue dress uniform, a U.S. Marine officer in a service uniform, and a U.S. Marine general in an evening dress uniform.

The Eagle, Globe and Anchor along with the U.S. flag, the Marine Corps flag and the Commandant's flag

A recruiting poster making use of the "Teufel Hunden" [sic] nickname

Marines firing MEU(SOC) pistols while garrisoned aboard a ship

Marine Amphibious Assault Vehicles emerge from the surf onto the sand of Freshwater Beach, Australia

Marine parachutists jumping from an MV-22 Osprey at 10,000 feet

A Marine Corps F-35B, the vertical-landing version of the F-35 Lightning II multirole fighter landing aboard USS Wasp (LHD-1)

Assault Amphibious Vehicles approaching the well deck of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)

A Marine and sailor training with rifles in Iraq

Marines unloading CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters from an Air Force C-5 Galaxy

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

Development of tactics, technique, and equipment used by amphibious landing forces in coordination with the Army and Air Force; and

Such other duties as the President or Department of Defense may direct.

United States Army Air Forces

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General of the Army Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold

USAAF insignia from July 1943 to January 1947

B-17G Fortresses of the 306th Bomb Group

P-51 Mustang of 361st Fighter Group, 1944

Medal of Honor recipient Major Richard Bong in Officer's Service Dress

Awards ceremony at RAF Debden, April 1944, illustrating varying shades of olive drab and the M-1944 "Ike jacket". Light shade 33 on left, dark shade 51 on right. Trousers are shade 33, khaki shade 1, and drab shade 54. The three combinations at right are "pinks and greens".

At the AAF School of Air Evacuation at Bowman Field, Ky., student flight nurses learned how to handle patients with the aid of a mock-up fuselage of a Douglas C-47 transport.

Female service dress in OD shade 33 at Randolph Field, 1944

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1945).

It was created on 20 June 1941 as successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and is the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force, today one of the six armed forces of the United States.

As all 48 states then part of the Union were contained within the contiguous United States, the term "Zone of the Interior" for the First through Fourth Air Forces' areas of assignment was the Second World War's term for what is called "CONUS" by today's United States Department of Defense in the 21st century.