<Tr> <Th> Ranks </Th> <Td> <P> Army Army officer Army warrant officer Army enlisted Marine Corps Marine Corps officer Marine Corps warrant officer Marine Corps enlisted Navy Navy officer Navy warrant officer Navy enlisted Air Force Air Force officer Air Force enlisted Coast Guard Coast Guard officer Coast Guard warrant officer </P> Coast Guard enlisted </Td> </Tr> <P> Army Army officer Army warrant officer Army enlisted Marine Corps Marine Corps officer Marine Corps warrant officer Marine Corps enlisted Navy Navy officer Navy warrant officer Navy enlisted Air Force Air Force officer Air Force enlisted Coast Guard Coast Guard officer Coast Guard warrant officer </P> <P> The United States Armed Forces is the armed forces of the United States of America . It consists of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard . The President of the United States is the U.S. Armed Forces's overall head, and helps form military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out . All five armed services are among the seven uniformed services of the United States . </P> <P> From the time of its inception, the U.S. Armed Forces played a decisive role in the history of the United States . A sense of national unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War . Even so, the founders of the United States were suspicious of a permanent military force . It played a critical role in the American Civil War, continuing to serve as the armed forces of the Union (American Civil War), although a number of its officers resigned to join the military of the Confederate States . The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following World War II and during the Cold War's onset, created the modern U.S. military framework; the Act merged the previously Cabinet - level Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (renamed the Department of Defense in 1949), headed by the Secretary of Defense; and created the Department of the Air Force (within the Defense Department) and the National Security Council . </P>

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