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Department of Defense

Seal of the Department of Defense

Commander-in-Chief: President of the United States,
Joe Biden
Secretary of Defense: Lloyd Austin
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Charles Q. Brown Jr., USAF
Military budget: $718 billion (2018)[1]
Employees: 700,000 civilian
2.8 million military (2008)

The chain of command leads from the president (as commander-in-chief) through the secretary of defense down to the newest recruits.[2][3] The United States Armed Forces are organized through the United States Department of Defense, which oversees a complex structure of joint command and control functions with many units reporting to various commanding officers. The following is an incomplete list of the various major military units, commands, and DOD offices and agencies, including civilian and military chains of command.

Secretary of Defense

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Organization Chart of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Office of the Inspector General

Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Joint Staff

Main article: Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs of Staff and Joint Staff Organizational Chart

Joint Staff

Military Departments

Department of the Army

Main article: United States Department of the Army
Chart summarizing the organization of the Department of the Army's Headquarters as of 2010

Office of the Secretary of the Army

The Army Staff

Department of the Navy

Main article: United States Department of the Navy
Basic Organization Chart of the United States Department of the Navy
Basic Organization Chart of the Shore Establishment of the United States Navy
Basic Organization Chart of the Operating Forces of the U.S. Navy
Organization Chart of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Organization Chart of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy

Office of the Secretary of the Navy

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Headquarters Marine Corps

Organization of HQMC, 2006
Organization of HQMC, 2006

Department of the Air Force

Main article: United States Department of the Air Force

Office of the Secretary of the Air Force

Air Staff

Air Staff Organizational Chart

Space Staff

Badge of the Space Staff

Combatant commands

U.S. Africa Command

Main article: United States Africa Command
Emblem of United States Africa Command

U.S. Central Command

Main article: United States Central Command
Emblem of the United States Central Command

U.S. European Command

Main article: United States European Command
Emblem of the United States European Command

Order of battle

U.S. Northern Command

Main article: United States Northern Command
Emblem of United States Northern Command

Order of battle

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

Main article: United States Indo-Pacific Command
Emblem of the United States Indo-Pacific Command

Order of battle

U.S. Southern Command

Main article: United States Southern Command
Emblem of the United States Southern Command

United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) (Fort Liberty, NC)

US Air Force Air Combat Command (Langley AFB, VA)

United States Fleet Forces Command (Norfolk NB, VA)

United States Marine Corps Forces Command (Norfolk NB, VA)

U.S. Forces Azores (USAFORAZ) (Lajes Field, Azores)

U.S. Space Command

Main article: United States Space Command
Emblem of the United States Space Command

U.S. Special Operations Command

Main article: United States Special Operations Command
Emblem of the United States Special Operations Command

U.S. Strategic Command

Main article: United States Strategic Command
USSTRATCOM emblem
The LeMay building

Order of battle

U.S. Transportation Command

Main article: United States Transportation Command
Emblem of the United States Transportation Command

Commander, USTRANSCOM: General Jacqueline Van Ovost, USAF

Order of battle

See also

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 October 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2019.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Functions of the Department of Defense and Its Major Components" (PDF). Defense Technical Information Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2011.
  3. ^ "U.S. Department of Defense Organization Chart". DoD Public Website.
  4. ^ First Army Division East Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "First Army Division West". army.mil. Archived from the original on 11 October 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  6. ^ http://www.usar.army.mil/arweb/organization/commandstructure/USARC/TNG/80Tng/Commands/94div/News/Pages/20081216.aspx[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ https://www.secnav.navy.mil/doni/Directives/05000%20General%20Management%20Security%20and%20Safety%20Services/05-400%20Organization%20and%20Functional%20Support%20Services/5400.2229%20(19).pdf [bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ a b c d e "SDDC Homepage". army.mil. Archived from the original on 14 March 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

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Unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense
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