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Branches of the Military in the United States

posted December 18, 2007 - 12:50am
Branches of the Military in the United States

The organization and number of the branches of the military in the U.S. have changed over the decades.

This article from about.com describes the five branches of the military in the U.S.: the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. And it gives details on how these branches are structured, when the branch was established, their reporting hierarchy, and much more.


Website: http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/generalinfo/a/milit...
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I served ten years in one of those branches...

jdubhub - Tue, 2007-18-12 1:13 am
Actually, it was the Navy and I was on active duty from 1986 to 1996. Historically, the military lost sight of its mission when the War Department (purposeful in name) became the Department of the Army under the aegis of the National Military Establishment aka Department of Defense (namby pamby we're-not-in-it-to-win-it weasel words) in 1949. How many wars has the US military won since 1949, not counting the unresolved Gulf War I which morphed into the morass in Iraq? Click here if you have something to say and want to get paid to say it!

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