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United States Navy

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Maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente during the Quasi-War

USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812

A carte de visite of a U.S. Navy lieutenant during the Civil War

The Great White Fleet demonstrating U.S. naval power in 1907; it was proof that the U.S. Navy had blue-water capability.

Columbia, personification of the United States, wearing a warship bearing the words "World Power" as her "Easter bonnet" on the cover of Puck, 6 April 1901

Battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) shelling Okinawa on 1 April 1945.

USS George Washington (SSBN-598), a ballistic missile submarine

U.S. Navy officers aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) monitor defense systems during early 2010s maritime security operations exercises

U.S. Navy patrol boat near Kuwait Naval Base in 2009

The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6), launched in 2012.

Organization of the United States Navy within the Department of Defense

Simplified flowchart of the U.S. Navy command structure

Areas of responsibility for each of the United States Navy fleets. Tenth Fleet serves as the numbered fleet for U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and therefore is not shown.

USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) docking at the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan

A Marine F/A-18 from VMFA-451 preparing to launch from USS Coral Sea (CV-43)

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter preparing to land on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD-1)

Navy SEALs at one of the entrances to the Zhawar Kili cave complex

U.S. Navy warrant officer specialty insignias

Underwater Demolition Team members using the casting technique from a speeding boat

Combat Camera Underwater Photo Team – A U.S. Navy diver during underwater photography training off the coast of Guantanamo Bay

USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), a Zumwalt-class stealth guided missile destroyer

USS Independence (LCS-2), a Littoral combat ship

USS Freedom (LCS-1) underway in special naval camouflage

USS Typhoon (PC-5) departing Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia

USS Kentucky (SSBN-737), an ballistic missile submarine

USS Virginia (SSN-774), a attack submarine

U.S. Navy MH-60R maritime strike helicopter assigned to the HSM-78 Blue Hawks aboard the carrier USS Carl Vinson

Aviation Ordnancemen loading GBU-12 bombs in 2005

The U.S. Navy is part of the Department of the Navy, alongside the U.S. Marine Corps, which is its coequal sister service.

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.

United States Army

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Land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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

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

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

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

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

US tanks and Soviet tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, 1961

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

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

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

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

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

Organization of the United States Army within the Department of Defense

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the Pacific War, U.S. Army soldiers participated alongside the United States Marine Corps in capturing the Pacific Islands from Japanese control.

1st Marine Division

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A Marine of the 1st Marine Regiment on Guadalcanal.

Marines of 1st Marine Division fighting on Okinawa, 1945.

Marines of 1st Marine Division at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.

3/3 Marines observe an airstrike during Operation Harvest Moon

A wounded 2/5 Marine receives treatment during the Battle of Huế

1/5 Marines await a helicopter during Operation Imperial Lake

Letter by Gen Mattis distributed throughout division before the 2003 invasion of Iraq

19th Naval Construction Battalion Plaque as the third Battalion 17th Marines with the 1st Marine Division Seabee Museum Archives

The 1st Marine Division (1st MARDIV) is a Marine division of the United States Marine Corps headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff in December 2020.

United States Armed Forces

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The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Boeing X-37B spaceplane after deorbiting and landing.

Service mark of the United States Coast Guard

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

Coast Guard Reserve Port Security boat on patrol

Unified combatant commands areas of responsibility

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

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

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

United States Air Force

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Air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

An Air Force RQ-4 strategic reconnaissance aircraft

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

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

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

Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base

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–

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack aircraft

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

E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system

F-22 Raptor stealth air superiority fighter

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

RQ-170 Sentinel stealth unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance aircraft

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

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

Prior to 1947, the responsibility for military aviation was shared between the Army Air Forces and its predecessor organizations (for land-based operations), the Navy (for sea-based operations from aircraft carriers and amphibious aircraft), and the Marine Corps (for close air support of Marine Corps operations).

HMX-1

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A VH-34D presidential helicopter (BuNo 147201) on the South Lawn of the White House in 1961

VH-1N with President Ronald Reagan at G7 in Italy in 1987

A VH-3D Sea King flying over Washington, D.C.

A VH-60N Whitehawk, flies over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.,

A MV-22B is presented at an Introduction Ceremony in the HMX-1 hangar

Military working dog Rocky searches luggage in front of a CH-46E used for utility support

Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron responsible for the transportation of the president and vice president of the United States, heads of state, Department of Defense officials, and other VIPs as directed by the Marine Corps and White House Military Office.

A drawing depicting the amphibious landing of British troops during the Siege of Quebec in 1759

Amphibious warfare

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Type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach.

South Korean Type 88 K1 MBT comes ashore from an American LCAC in March 2007.

Two Australian M113s disembarking from a landing craft during a training exercise in 2019

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the 1066 Norman invasion of England with a force of some 8,000 infantry and heavy cavalry landed on the English shore.

Relief of Gibraltar by Earl Howe, 11 October 1782, by Richard Paton

British and American movements during the Chesapeake Campaign

Ships of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron bombarding Fort Fisher prior to the ground assault, during the American Civil War

Japanese landing on Liaodong Peninsula, 1909

German battleship during Operation Albion in October 1917

V Beach about two days after the landing, seen from the bow of the River Clyde

Anzac Beach amphibious landing, on April 25, 1915

The Landing Craft Mechanized was designed by Inter-Service Training and Development Centre from 1938 as the first specialized amphibious ship for the transportation of tanks.

The Inter-Service Training and Development Centre, which helped to pioneer modern amphibious warfare doctrine, came under the command of Combined Operations Headquarters in June 1940. Pictured, the badge of Combined Operations.

Major Earl Hancock Ellis developed amphibious warfare doctrine for the United States Marine Corps in the interwar period, and successfully predicted the nature of the subsequent Pacific campaign.

LCVPs, known as 'Higgins Boats', were the first specialized landing craft for the US Navy. Pictured, USS Darke (APA-159) LCVP 18, possibly with Army troops as reinforcements at Okinawa, 1945.

Into the Jaws of Death: Troops from the U.S. 1st Division landing on Omaha beach as part of Operation Overlord

19 September 1942, Allied troops disembarking from a Landing Craft Assault (LCA) in Toamasina harbour

Canadian landings at Juno Beach in the Landing Craft Assault

Royal Navy Beach Commandos aboard a Landing Craft Assault of the 529th Flotilla, Royal Navy

USS LCI-326, a Landing Craft Infantry, during training for D-Day

Two examples of the LCM 1 on an exercise prior to the 1942 Dieppe Raid. On the right is an earlier model without the later fully armoured steering shelter. This craft also has been given additional armour around the tank well and a ramp extension.

A Crusader I tank emerges from the Tank Landing Craft TLC-124, 26 April 1942.

A Canadian LST off-loads an M4 Sherman during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

A large landing craft convoy crosses the English Channel on 6 June 1944.

PLUTO Pump from Sandown on the Isle of Wight

Overall aerial view of the Mulberry B harbour "Port Winston" in September 1944

Landing craft approach Blue Beach during the Inchon landings on 15 September 1950, covered by the U.S. Navy destroyer USS De Haven (DD-727) (bottom center).

In late 2001, USS Peleliu (LHA-5) amphibious group sent ashore 15th MEU into Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In 1776 Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines, the "progenitor" of the United States Marine Corps, made a first successful landing in the Raid of Nassau in the Bahamas.

Marine One

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A former VH-3 Marine One at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Richard Nixon boarding Marine One on July 16, 1972.

President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan board Marine One, 1987

Inside a VH-3D Marine One transporting President Barack Obama (seated with back to camera), seated with National Security Advisor James L. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (left to right).

A developmental VH-92A helicopter conducts landing and take-off testing at the White House South Lawn in September 2018.

Marine One is the call sign of any United States Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president of the United States.

Seabee

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United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Force (NCF).

CB Navy Yard Bougainville with the Seabee Expression

3rd Marine Div. 2nd Raider's sign on Bougainville. 53rd CB was the shore party to the 2nd Raiders of Green Beach, D-Day.

The Naval Infantry Battalion Flag was mandated by Naval Regulation as the military colors for the Construction Battalions.

USMC-directed fixed bayonet drill at Camp Peary NTC, VA in 1943

"17th Special" Seabees with the 7th Marines on Peleliu made national news in an official U.S. Navy press release. NARA-532537

MIT grad Lt Cmdr. Edward Swain Hope CEC was the most senior African American officer in the United States Navy during WWII.

19th CB Plaque produced while designated 3rd Battalion 17th Marines

CB insignia worn on USMC issue garrison cap.

Fleet Marine Force Combat Operation Insignia for Seabees and Corpsmen.

"NCDU 45", Ensign Karnowski (CEC), ChCarp. Conrad C. Millis, MMCB2 Lester Meyers and three gunners mates. The unit received a Presidential Unit Citation with Ens. Karnowski earning the Navy Cross & French Croix de Guerre with Palm, while MM2 Meyers received a Silver Star. Two men were wounded and one killed.

Seabees in both UDT 3 and 4 made signs to greet the Marines assaulting Guam. Lt. Crist confiscated this sign. However, Team 4 was able to leave theirs on the beach for the Marines to see that the Seabees had been there first.

Lt Luehrs was one of the 30 Officers from the 7th NCR that Lt. Crist staged for UDTs 1 & 2. He and Chief Acheson were the first UDT swimmers.

Carp. W. H. Achenson Silver Star ceremony for UDT 1 action at Engibi where he stripped down to swim trunks and did reconnaissance in broad daylight on a hostile beach becoming a role model of UDTs being swimmers.

Lt. Crist(CEC), Lt. Cmdr. Kaufmann, and Lt. Carberry right to left at Silver and bronze stars awards

The 53rd CB erecting camera towers on Bikini Atoll for filming the tests.

Yo Do Island airfield constructed behind enemy lines by ACB 1. It was credited with saving 60 aviators. Seabees in photo are refueling Corsairs on 15 July 1952. (USN)

Naval Air Station Cubi Point left, U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay right. Seabees leveled a mountain that civilian contractors said could not be done. (USN)

Suspension bridge built by NMCB 5 CCAD in Timor-Leste 2015 (Seabee Museum)

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, constructed by NMCB 71, dia. 165' x 54' height

Tank for PM3a nuclear reactor built by MCB 1 at McMurdo Station

STAT 1104 in Port Hueneme L-R standing: John Klepher, Dale Brakken, William Hoover KIA, Ltjg Peterlin, Cmdr L.W.Eyman, Douglas Mattick, James Keenan, J.R. McCully, Marvin Shields KIA, kneeling: Richard Supczak, F.J. Alexander Jr, James Wilson, Jack Allen. For their actions in the Battle of Dong Xoai, STAT 1104 received a Navy Unit Commendation a Medal of Honor, 2 Silver Stars, 6 Bronze Stars with Vs and 9 purple hearts. (USN)

CIA runway by MCB 6 Det Alfa on Swan Island

Naval Support Unit Seabees securing a diplomatic compound in Dec. 2010. (Dept. of State)

NMCB 15 Seabee mans a machine gun while travelling through Al Hillah, Iraq in May 2003.

NMCB 5 attached to Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa set tents for displaced flood victims in Ethiopia. (2006)

Seabees from NMCB 3 pave a road in the Northern Mariana Islands

NMCB 40 Seabee Engineer Reconnaissance Team assess the structural capacity of a bridge during field exercises.

US Navy 030404-N-1050K-023U.S. Seabees from ACBs 1 and 2 place a deck section in the assembly of the Elevated Causeway System-Modular (ELCAS (M)) at Camp Patriot, Kuwait (Apr 2003).

Underwater Construction Team 2 along with divers of the National Park Service ascertain the condition and status of the battleship USS Arizona Memorial in 2013

USMC barracks inspection during NMCB 74's military training at Camp Lejeune in March 1968

USMC M60 instruction at Camp Lejeune for MCB 71 in 1967

SCW insignia: Seabee Officers and enlisted

FMF insignia for USN: Officer, Enlisted, and Chaplain

US Navy 050728-N-8268B-022 A Logistical Amphibious Recovery Craft (LARC) amphibious vehicle assigned to Beachmaster Unit One (BMU-1) launches from the Military Sealift Command (MSC) sea barge heavy lift ship SS Cape Mohican (T-AKR-5065)

The Fighting Seabee Statue at Quonset Point, where the Seabee Museum and Memorial Park commemorates Camp Endicott which is on the National Register of Historic Places (U.S. Navy)

A member of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 stands watch while other Seabees prepare area for camp during Operation Desert Storm.

Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One Thirty Three (NMCB-133) and Salvage Unit Two (SU-2) provide road improvements on one of the main supply routes supporting combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Active duty and reserve Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalions 40, 18 and 26 secure and fortify a remote combat outpost on the eastern edge of Khavejeh Molk, Afganistan.

Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 and Beachmaster Unit Two conduct Logistics over the shore exercises.

A Seabee, assigned to Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 202, conducts maintenance on a Cougar HE 6x6, at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Khost province, Afghanistan.

In addition, Seabees served as elements of Cubs, Lions, Acorns and the United States Marine Corps.

Seal of the U.S. Department of the Navy from 1879 to 1957.

United States Department of the Navy

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One of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.

Navy Department, mainly the Office of the Secretary, organizational structure (2006)

It was established by an Act of Congress on 30 April 1798, at the urging of Secretary of War James McHenry, to provide a government organizational structure to the United States Navy (USN); since 1834, it has exercised jurisdiction over the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) and, during wartime, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), though each remains an independent service branch.

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