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The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

The U.S. Navy is the largest, most capable navy in the world, with the highest combined battle fleet tonnage.

The U.S. Navy has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with ten in service, two in the reserve fleet, and three new carriers under construction.

The service has 323,792 personnel on active duty and 108,515 in the Navy Reserve.

It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 operational aircraft.

The United States Armed Forces are the federal armed forces of the United States.

They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.

The President of the United States is the military's overall head, and helps form military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), a federal executive department, acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out.

An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority.

Used without further detail, the term "officer" almost always refers to commissioned officers, the most senior portion of a force who derive authority from a commission, usually from a state, e.g., a "national" government.

In this sense, officers are not "enlisted," but hold appointments from their government that typically remain in force indefinitely unless resigned.

An enlisted rank (also known as an enlisted grade or enlisted rate) is, in some armed services, any rank below that of a commissioned officer.

The term can be inclusive of non-commissioned officers or warrant officers, except in United States military usage where warrant officers/chief warrant officers are a separate officer category ranking above enlisted grades and below commissioned officer grades.

In most cases, enlisted service personnel perform jobs specific to their own occupational specialty, as opposed to the more generalized command responsibilities of commissioned officers.

The term "enlistment" refers solely to a military commitment (whether officer or enlisted) whereas the terms "taken of strength" and "struck off strength" refer to a servicemember being carried on a given unit's roll.

Military recruitment is recruitment for military positions, that is, the act of requesting people, usually male adults, to join a military voluntarily.

Involuntary military recruitment is known as conscription.

Even before the era of all-volunteer militaries, recruitment of volunteers was an important component of filling military positions, and in countries that have abolished conscription, it is the sole means.

To facilitate this process, armed forces have established recruiting commands.