The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. The armed forces consist of six service branches:the Army,Marine Corps,Navy,Air Force,Space Force,and Coast Guard. All six armed services are among the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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. The secretary of defense's position of command and authority over the military is second only to that of the president of the United States,who is the commander-in-chief. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a defense minister in many other countries. The secretary of defense is appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate,and is by custom a member of the Cabinet and by law a member of the National Security Council.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is the body of the most senior uniformed leaders within the United States Department of Defense,which advises the president of the United States,the secretary of defense,the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on military matters. The composition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is defined by statute and consists of a chairman (CJCS),a vice chairman (VJCS),the chiefs of the Army,Marine Corps,Navy,Air Force,Space Force,and the chief of the National Guard Bureau. Each of the individual service chiefs,outside their JCS obligations,works directly under the secretaries of their respective military departments,e.g. the secretary of the Army,the secretary of the Navy,and the secretary of the Air Force.
The several branches of the United States Armed Forces are represented by flags. Within the U.S. military,various flags fly on various occasions,and on various ships,bases,camps,and military academies.
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a public graduate school operated by the United States Navy and located in Monterey,California.
Auraria Campus is an educational facility located near downtown Denver,Colorado in the United States. The campus houses facilities of three separate universities and colleges:the University of Colorado Denver,Community College of Denver (CCD),and Metropolitan State University of Denver. In 2017,there were approximately 54,812 students between the three schools,with rapid growth projected over the following few years. However,due to the Covid-19 pandemic and declining enrollment,the collective student population in 2022 was approximately 38,000,with an additional 5,000 faculty and staff.
Buckley Space Force Base is a United States Space Force base in Aurora,Colorado named after United States Army Air Service First Lieutenant John Harold Buckley. The base is run by Space Base Delta 2,with major units including the U.S. Space Force's Space Delta 4,the Colorado Air National Guard's 140th Wing,the Denver Naval Operations Support Center,and the National Reconnaissance Office's Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado.
The Colorado Air National Guard (CO ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of Colorado,United States of America. It is,along with the Colorado Army National Guard,an element of the Colorado National Guard. The units of the Colorado Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command. They are under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Colorado through the office of the Colorado Adjutant General unless they are federalized by order of the President of the United States. The Colorado Air National Guard is headquartered in Centennial,and its commander is currently Major General H. Michael Edwards.
The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. As of June 2022,the U.S. Department of Defense is the largest employer in the world,with over 1.34 million active-duty service members,including soldiers,marines,sailors,airmen,and guardians. The Department of Defense also maintains over 778,000 National Guard and reservists,and over 747,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.87 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington County,Virginia,just outside Washington,D.C.,the Department of Defense's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".
Susan C. Aldridge is an American academic administrator. She is interim president of Thomas Jefferson University. She was previously president of Drexel University Online. She was the president of University of Maryland University College,vice chancellor of the global campus at Troy University,and a professor of management,organizational behavior,and policy analysis at the National University of Singapore.
Michelle Janine Howard is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who last served as the commander of the United States Naval Forces Europe,United States Naval Forces Africa and Allied Joint Force Command Naples. She previously was the 38th Vice Chief of Naval Operations. She assumed her last assignment on June 7,2016.
Ann Elisabeth Rondeau is a retired United States Navy vice admiral. During her tenure in the navy,she received two Defense Distinguished Service Medals,the Navy Distinguished Service Medal,and four Legion of Merit awards. Rondeau was the president of National Defense University and,after serving as the president of the College of DuPage,was chosen by United States Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer to be president of the Naval Postgraduate School in 2019.
Frank Graham Klotz served as Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy. He was confirmed for the position on April 8,2014,and retired on January 20,2018.
Brian Lee Losey is a retired rear admiral of the United States Navy. He headed the Naval Special Warfare Command from 2013 until his retirement in 2016. Losey is a native of Tacoma,Washington.
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has a complex organizational structure. It includes the Army,Navy,the Marine Corps,Air Force,Space Force,the Unified combatant commands,U.S. elements of multinational commands,as well as non-combat agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. The DoD's annual budget was roughly US$496.1 billion in 2015. This figure is the base amount and does not include the $64.3 billion spent on "War/Non-War Supplementals". Including those items brings the total to $560.6 billion for 2015.
Metropolitan State University of Denver is a public university in Denver,Colorado. It is located on the Auraria Campus,along with the University of Colorado Denver and the Community College of Denver,in downtown Denver,adjacent to Speer Boulevard and Colfax Avenue. MSU Denver had an enrollment of 16,345 undergraduate students in the fall of 2023.
Gordon James Klingenschmitt is an American religious figure,former US Navy chaplain,and former politician.
Linton Wells II is an American public servant and educator who served a total of 51 years in government service. He served 26 years in the United States Navy as an officer,and then was appointed by the President of the United States as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense,serving through two administrations of both parties,both the Democrat Bill Clinton and the Republican George W. Bush. He wrote many books,articles,and white papers on matters of national security,including important texts related to the use of American military capabilities in global humanitarian operations. His expertise focused on the strategic impacts of technological change and on building resilience to natural and man-made disasters as issues of US national security. He shaped,over five decades of public service,current US Department of Defense directives that link policy and technology with public-private cooperation. His writings significantly altered U.S. and international approaches to civil-military engagement,US policy in global humanitarian assistance,and global public-private partnerships in disaster relief. He has also made fundamental contributions to technical areas that have defined network-enabled military capabilities and cyberspace operations. After retiring from public service,he continued to contribute to the international STAR-TIDES network that he had founded in 2007,a consortium of several thousand global nodes comprising agencies,organizations,institutions and individuals in 40+ countries that promote the free exchange of research results on global issues of human security. As of 2021 he is Executive Advisor to the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) at George Mason University and chairs the Advisory Group of the C4I and Cyber Center there. C-RASC has been working with the People-Centered Internet (PCI) on ways to “put humanity at the center of the Internet”and support a variety of revitalization initiatives. He is on the board of PCI,and also the President and CEO of Global Resilience Strategies and Senior Advisor to Resilient Japan. He was listed by Fortune magazine in 2009 as one of the top 16 "Players of Tech".
The Honorable Eric Brien Rosenbach is an American public servant and Harvard professor who served as Pentagon Chief of Staff from July 2015 to January 2017 and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security from September 2014 to September 2015. As Chief of Staff,Rosenbach assisted Secretary Ash Carter on the Department of Defense's major challenges of the time,which included increased Russian aggression,the Syrian Civil War,and North Korean missile tests.
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