Our Services

U.S. Army | U.S. Navy | U.S. Marine Corps | U.S. Air Force | U.S. Coast Guard | U.S. National Guard

U.S Army

• The Army is the nation’s principle land force.
• Provides combat operations on land in all environments and types of terrain, including complex urban environments, in order to defeat enemy ground forces, and seize, occupy and defend land areas.
• Operates within more than 120 countries to date
• Current responsibilities include:
  • Securing the South Korea border
  • Keeping peace in Kosovo
  • Defeating adversaries in Afghanistan
• Personnel:
• • 488,000 active duty soldiers deployed world-wide
  • 189,000 Army reserves
  • 346,000 Army National Guard.
• Slogan: “Army Strong”

U.S Navy

• The Navy fights on the water, under the water and over the water.
• Every day, tens of thousands of Sailors and Marines and about 40 percent of all Navy ships are far from home.
• Current responsibilities include:
  • Protecting allies from ballistic missile attack in the Pacific, Arabian Gulf and the Mediterranean
  • Catching drug smugglers in the Caribbean
  • Building new partnerships in South America, Southeast Asia and Africa.
  • Flying our Navy planes, launched from carriers sailing the Indian Ocean, for about one-third of the close-air support missions that protect our Soldiers and Marines on the ground in Afghanistan
• Personnel:
  • 330,000 active duty
  • 120,000 Reservists deployed
• Slogan: “A global force for good”

U.S. Marine Corps

• The Marine Corps is responsible for providing power projection from the sea, utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises.
• A part of the Navy Department, the Marines are the smallest of the United States Armed Forces in the Department of Defense
• Current responsibilities include:
  • Serving as sea-based, integrated air-ground units for contingency and combat operations
  • Flying fighter jets based on Navy amphibious ships, nicknamed “big decks,” as well as drive tanks and ground vehicles.
• Personnel:
  • 190,000 active duty Marines
  • 40,000 Marine Corps Reservists
• Slogan: “The Few, The Proud”

U.S Air Force

• The Air Force mission is to fly, fight and win…in air, space and cyberspace.
• The Air Force is the newest service, formed just 64 years ago in 1947 when the Army Air Corps became an independent Air Force.
• The Air Force has 3 core competencies- developing Airmen, technology-to-warfighting, integrating operations.
• Current responsibilities include:
  • Protecting American airspace after September 11
  • Supporting air and ground combat ops since 2001 for Operation Enduring Freedom.
• Personnel:
  • 324,000 active duty
  • 177,000 Air National Guard and Reservists
• Slogan: “Aim High. Fly, Fight, Win”

U.S. Marine Corps

• The Coast Guard is a military, multi-mission, maritime service with maritime safety and security operations, marine environmental protection, waterways management, and regulatory functions as well as homeland security and national defense operations.
• The Coast Guard provides direct support to the Department of Defense and functions as a specialized service in the Department of the Navy in a time of declared war or by executive order.
• Current responsibilities include:
  • Port waterways and coastal security
  • Drug and migrant interdiction
  • Aids to navigation
  • Performing search and rescue operations and marine environmental protection
  • Providing defense readiness and law enforcement operations.
• Located within the Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard is the only military service with statutory authority to enforce domestic U. S. laws.
• Personnel:
  • 42,390 active-duty members
  • 6,945 reservists.
• Slogan: “Born Ready”

U.S. Marine Corps

• The Army and Air Force National Guard, organized by state, are the first military responders for domestic crises like Hurricane Katrina.
• The Guard provides 35-40 percent of the Army and Air Force operational forces, serving in locations like Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.
• Current responsibilities include:
  • Providing wartime military support
  • Performing humanitarian, peacekeeping, and homeland security missions.
• Members of the National Guard, as well as the Reserves, return to their civilian jobs in between activation periods.
• Personnel:
  • 460,000 Soldiers and Airmen, located in over 3,300 American communities
• Slogan: “Always ready. Always there.”