S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) was an international peacekeeping, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism agency sanctioned by the United Nations. They are led by a director who reports to the World Security Council made up of members from various nations. Founded to combat technologically advanced threats on world security (specifically the menace of Hydra), they remained throughout the years on the front lines, fighting terrorism, supernatural threats and extraterrestrial menaces as an international intelligence agency.
In 1960, American business and weapons manufacturer Howard Stark, a member and agent of the Brotherhood of the Shield, started elaborating the idea of a secret counter-terrorism espionage organization devoted to protect the world from several worldwide threats, recording his own thoughts and purposes to leave them as a legacy to his adopted son Anthony.
The very existence of S.H.I.E.L.D. was made public in 1965 when its Director, Rick Stoner, was apparently killed by some Hydra operatives, resulting in the selection of a replacement. Nick Fury was then nominated as the agency's public Executive Director, reporting only to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Executive Council, composed by politicians and businessman from several states and countries.
As director, Colonel Fury took a very active hand in S.H.I.E.L.D. operations, often going into the field himself on their most important missions. Supporting him, aside from the thousands of rank-and-file S.H.I.E.L.D. agents working around the world, were a core group of capable officers. Fury's aide-de-camp was the man who had filled the same function for his Howling Commandos in World War II, the boisterous Timothy 'Dum Dum' Dugan. Another ex-Howler joined S.H.I.E.L.D. in the person of Gabe Jones, whose presence had made the Howlers the Army's first racially integrated unit. There was also the by-the-books Jasper Sitwell, who balanced and sometimes clashed with the more emotional members of the command staff. The brilliant Sidney 'The Gaffer' Levine acted as head of Research & Development, designing many high-tech specialty gadgets to supplement the weapons and vehicles provided by Stark Enterprises. Later, Laura Brown, the daughter of the Imperial Hydra, defected from Hydra to join S.H.I.E.L.D.. Jimmy Woo, hero of clashes with the villainous Yellow Claw, served as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s FBI liaison agent. Clay Quartermain was a resident 'pretty boy' super-agent. La Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine ('Val' to her friends), a member of the European jet-set, proved to be equally skilled, as well as one of Fury's lovers. Another prominent member was Sharon Carter (Agent 13), a frequent partner and eventual lover of Captain America.
The equipment of S.H.I.E.L.D. has always been at least as distinctive as its membership. A series of flying fortresses invariably known as the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier served as the mobile headquarters of the organization. Other vehicles such as hoverfliers, flying cars and tunneling vehicles rounded out S.H.I.E.L.D.'s vehicle complement. Agents carried a variety of personal gear as well. Fury's weapon of choice was a 300-round .15 caliber pistol specially designed to fire explosive-tipped needles. Tear gas boutonnieres, explosive shirts, rear-view periscope hats, camera-phone watches, jetpacks, cigars laced with various chemical compounds (including flash bombs), and other tools of the spy trade insured that S.H.I.E.L.D. agents always had access to the right equipment. One of the most distinctive inventions of The Gaffer was the Life-Model Decoy (LMD), an extremely lifelike android designed to emulate the behavior of a specific individual, usually used to replace someone in danger of being killed. During the Cold War S.H.I.E.L.D. also maintained a large headquarters in New York City, as well as other bases in every major city in the Western world, and hidden outposts in many Communist countries.
Various specialized teams of agents have been utilized, such as the Psi Division and Super Agents. At one time, S.H.I.E.L.D. had command over an incarnation of the Hulkbusters. Throughout the years, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents have left the service to perform acts both heroic and villainous. Some went rogue, such as Mentallo, becoming threats to society. Others, like Quasar, joined the superhero community. Since the early days, S.H.I.E.L.D., through Fury, has maintained close ties to groups like the Avengers and Fantastic Four, and with individuals like Captain America, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), and Wolverine, ensuring that a capable and varied pool of special operatives were readily available. That said, S.H.I.E.L.D. often came into conflict with members of the superhero community who worked through less than legal means or against government aims. Fury's friendships with many superheroes conflicted with his duties in these cases.

SHIELD Personnel

Director of SHIELD Colonel Nick Fury	Head of SHIELD Maria Hill	Agent Phil Coulson	Agent Melinda May	Agent Sum

Agent Val Cooper	Agent Alloysus Dugan	Agent Clay Quartermain	Agent Eric Koenig	Agent Jasper Sitwell

Agent Jimmy Woo	Agent Marcus Johnson	Agent 13 Sharon Carter	Agent Victoria Hand	Agent Shin Mikage

Agent Lindsay	Agent Cheesecake	Agent Desmond Boothroyd	Vigilante Aiden Pearce	Agent Megan Haddad

Super-Agents

Black Widow Natasha Romanov	Captain America Steve Rogers	Hawkeye Clint Barton	Mockingbird Bobbi Morse	Quake Daisy Johnson

Scorpion Carmilla Black	Spider-Woman Jessica Drew	Portal	White Widow Yelena Belova	Wolverine Logan

S.W.O.R.D.

S.W.O.R.D. (an acronym for Sentient World Observation and Response Department) was a counter terrorism and intelligence agency which dealt with extraterrestrial threats to world security. S.W.O.R.D. was a subdivision of S.H.I.E.L.D. but appeared to be largely autonomous of its parent organization. Since the departure of Nick Fury as director of S.H.I.E.L.D., relations between the two organizations became strained.
The head of S.W.O.R.D was Special Agent Abigail Brand. Its primary command-and-control HQ was aboard the orbital space station known as the Peak. S.W.O.R.D. was known to have at least one undercover operative in the X-Mansion: Shadowcat's pet dragon, Lockheed.

Director of SWORD Abigail Brand	Head of Science Beast	Agent Lockheed	Agent Death's Head	Captain Jack Harkness

International Operations

International Operations was an American intelligence agency that was founded by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1964 with the purpose of safeguarding the interests of the United States.
International Operations soon fell under the leadership of Director Miles Craven and became an independent organization focusing on researching superhumans.
International Operations first discovered the Gen-factor, one of the sources responsible for superhuman powers. Gen-factor was experimented on many test subjects in which it resulted in many either dead or turned insane, or in some cases heavily and physically mutated. Gen-factor was also exposed to Team-7 by Miles Craven on a fake mission, claiming later that it was a chemical weapon used by their enemy. Most of Team 7 started to develop superpowers, except for Michael Cray, whose powers wouldn't manifest until 20 years later. Other members went insane or committed suicide, but in the end only seven members of Team 7 had developed superpowers while retaining their humanity. These seven would sired children that inherited their fathers' powers and became known as Gen 13.

Director of I.O. Ivana Baiul	Sideways Bob	Verge	Edge	Edge

Black Razor Tyler Evans	Black Razor Blake Coleman	Black Razor Ben Santini	Black Razor Jessica Fallon	Black Razor Bolton

Black Razor Alex Walker	Black Razor Max Cash	Black Razor Flynn	Black Razor Magnus	Black Razor Skvarla

Tabula Rasa

Ethan York M.I.A.	Gwendolyne Matsura M.I.A.	Hamza Al-Rashad M.I.A.	Janelle Eloise Moorhead M.I.A.

Gen 14

Breakdown Holly Denton M.I.A.	Ditto Amber LeRoux M.I.A.	Hardbody Lance Wielder M.I.A.	Runt Guillermo Sandoval M.I.A.	Windsprint Shaqira Johnson M.I.A.

Thunderbolts

The Thunderbolts were a team of reformed super-criminals. However, the team was originally conceived by Baron Helmut Zemo under the identity of Citizen V in a cover to steal the cities resources and to place themselves in a position of trust by convincing the authorities that they were heroes. He recruited Goliath as Atlas, Moonstone as Meteorite, Beetle as Mach-I, Fixer as Techno, and Screaming Mimi as Songbird. However the team later reformed and became a true force for good in the world.

Director Karla Sofen	Dark Knight Michael Lane	American Panther Eric Killmonger	Patriot Blue Ezekiel Stane

S.H.A.D.E.

S.H.A.D.E. was created as a one-time elite espionage operation by President Lyndon Johnson. Over the decades, it survived in a minimalist form, as a low budget cleanup operation headquartered at the secret Essex Airbase.
The activities of S.H.A.D.E. are unknown until the present day, but what is known is that their budget was repeatedly slashed with the rise of superhumans. However, when all the heroes were occupied with the Infinite Crisis, S.H.A.D.E. became aware of the imminent attack of the Sheeda. When the Sheeda flagship appeared over New York City, they were reinstated as the American government's go-to agency for bizarre goings-on (particularly in light of the news that Checkmate, their predecessor organization, had gone rogue under the leadership of Maxwell Lord).

Father Time	Americommando	Barracuda	Bigfoot	Chief Justice

Destroyer	Doll Man	Embargo	Frankenstein	Lady Frankenstein

Propaganda	Railgun	Spin Doctor	The Face	The Ray III

Vincent Velcoro	Warren Griffith	G.I. Robot	Cache

Force of July

Agents of the government espionage organization, the American Security Agency, the Force of July operated under the personal supervision of the ASA's director, B. Eric Blairman. The ASA's purpose — to eliminate all subversive activities contrary to the best interests of the United States— brought the Force into repeated conflict with the group known as The Outsiders, whom the Force wrongly believed were subversive agents. Each member of the Force possessed not only a unique super-power, but top government clearance and virtual carte blanche to use any means necessary to achieve their goals.
Not truly villains, the Force's members were simply fanatic in their patriotism. They did not realize that Blairman's motives were none-too-pure. Blairman had birthed Project Orwell, whose satellite would have enabled him to spy on people via their televisions. This brought the Force into conflict with the Outsiders, who destroyed a satellite. Afterward, the Force was left under a mountain of debris.
The team was absorbed into a special S.H.A.D.E. special team called First Strike.

Major Victory	Lady Liberty	Silent Majority	Mayflower	Sparkler Deceased

Former HAMMER Agents

H.A.M.M.E.R. It doesn't stand for anything.

H.A.M.M.E.R. was an aggressive agency that replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. when Norman Osborn took power after the Skrull invasion. Most of S.H.I.E.L.D. was transferred to H.A.M.M.E.R.; of the agents who refused or defected from H.A.M.M.E.R., many of them later formed the independent Howling Comandos PMC. Under H.A.M.M.E.R., Osborn founded the Dark Avengers and took on the name Iron Patriot.[3] H.A.M.M.E.R. fell when Osborn's reign ended,[4] though small vestiges of it persisted. The rise and fall of H.A.M.M.E.R. had one unintentional benefit. S.H.I.E.L.D. had secretly been controlled by Hydra, so Osborn dismantling S.H.I.E.L.D. to create H.A.M.M.E.R. unwittingly cut Hydra's strings.[7] Thus, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was eventually restored, it was free from Hydra.

Agent Barry Hemsworth	Agent Conway Ruffalo	Agent Lana Downey	Agent Ray Evans	Agent Sterling Renner

Analyst Cyril Johanssen

Government Agents

Director, Task Force X Amanda Waller	Director, Blood Project Alexander Graves	Assistant, Blood Project Alan Keever	Agent, ARGUS Steve Trevor	Agent, Task Force X Rick Flagg

Agent, CBI Sarge Steel	Director, D.E.O Mister Bones

Freedom Fighters

The Freedom Fighters are a team of American super-heroes led by Uncle Sam. They were formed during World War II to fight against the Nazi army, although their adventures fighting evil have continued into the modern era whenever the nation needs them.

Uncle Sam	Black Condor John Trujillo	Firebrand Andre Twist	Human Bomb Andy Franklin	Miss America Joan Dale

Phantom Lady Stormy Knight	Red Bee Jenna Raleigh	The Ray Ray Terrill

Deathlok Defense Force

Created after the 'Reaper Incident' that devastated Detroit, used from the Deathlok experimental technology, created by Michael Collins, licensed from the Roxxon Power Company. The death and destruction across the city, particularly of First Responders and SWAT Officers, followed by the rise of HAMMER, and the Super-Hero Registration Act (currently inactive), led to the conversion of fallen First Responders and SWAT Team member bodies into Deathlok units. These were meant to replace the massive loss of law enforcement personnel with programmed, cybernetic police officers, able to handle the work of several dozen regular lawmen, and programmed to obey the law to the letter and spirit. Humans rights protests have risen due to this, across the nation, but HAMMER's public face and overall power until and during the Darkseid War has led to the Deathlok police corps to still be active, until a new Detroit PD can be trained and dispatched.
Half-Human, Half-Robot, All Cop. The Future of Law Enforcement. Deathlok.

Deathlok Unit 1 Detroit P.D. Officer	Deathlok Unit 2 Detroit P.D. Officer	Deathlok Unit 3 Detroit P.D. Officer	Deathlok Unit 4 Detroit P.D. Officer	Deathlok Unit 5 Detroit P.D. Officer

Deathlok Unit 6 Detroit P.D. Officer	Deathlok Unit 7 Detroit P.D. Officer	Deathlok Unit 8 Detroit P.D. Officer

Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; /ˌsiː.aɪˈeɪ/), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations. As a principal member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States. Following the dissolution of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman created the Central Intelligence Group under the direction of a Director of Central Intelligence by presidential directive on January 22, 1946, and this group was transformed into the Central Intelligence Agency by implementation of the National Security Act of 1947.
Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on intelligence gathering overseas, with only limited domestic intelligence collection. The CIA serves as the national manager for HUMINT, coordinating activities across the IC. It also carries out covert action at the behest of the President. It exerts foreign political influence through its paramilitary operations units, such as the Special Activities Center. The CIA was instrumental in establishing intelligence services in many countries, such as Germany's BND. It has also provided support to several foreign political groups and governments, including planning, coordinating, training in torture, and technical support. It was involved in many regime changes and carrying out terrorist attacks and planned assassinations of foreign leaders.
Since 2004, the CIA is organized under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Despite having had some of its powers transferred to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a response to the September 11 attacks. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in the fiscal year 2010, the CIA had the largest budget of all IC agencies, exceeding previous estimates. The CIA has increasingly expanded its role, including covert paramilitary operations.[3] One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center (IOC), has officially shifted focus from counterterrorism to offensive cyber operations. The agency has been the subject of many controversies, including torture, human rights violations, domestic wiretapping, propaganda, and allegations of drug trafficking. In 2022, it was discovered that it still has a domestic surveillance program that does not have Congressional oversight.

Agency Members

Director Jason Wynn	Captain George Costanzo	Agent Alex	Agent Smith	Agent Al McKenzie

Agent Angela Tortelli	Agent Black Dynamite	Agent Everett Ross	Agent Kathryn O'Brien	Agent Michael Rossi

Agent Nia Jones	Agent Rufus Carter	Agent Tatjana Styles	Agent William Rawlins	Agent William Roth

Agent Aaron Rayner	Agent Abe Crane	Agent Bailey	Agent Chuck	Agent Jones

Agent Kinnock	Agent Osborne	Agent Wright	Agent Ben Stryker	Agent Bug McGrew

Agent Carl Burbank	Agent Eddie Fyers	Agent Edwin Alva	Agent Frank Lowell	Agent Geoffrey Ballard

Agent George Hatherly	Agent Gray Wolf	Agent Ice Phillips	Agent Jack Bascomb	Agent Jessica Priest

Agent King Faraday	Agent Grace Kasaba	Agent Manuel Lago	Agent Mia Lessing	Agent Ralph Bundy

Agent Sam Garfield	Agent Samuel Stanger	Agent Simon Stroud	Agent Stan Kriptman	Secretary Charlotte Lin

Federal Bureau of Investigations

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. An agency of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI is also a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U.S. counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, the FBI has jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes.
Although many of the FBI's functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and NCA; the New Zealand GCSB and the Russian FSB. Unlike the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which has no law enforcement authority and is focused on intelligence collection abroad, the FBI is primarily a domestic agency, maintaining 56 field offices in major cities throughout the United States, and more than 400 resident agencies in smaller cities and areas across the nation. At an FBI field office, a senior-level FBI officer concurrently serves as the representative of the director of National Intelligence.
Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint, operating 60 Legal Attache (LEGAT) offices and 15 sub-offices in U.S. embassies and consulates across the globe. These foreign offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a limited domestic function; these activities generally require coordination across government agencies. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation, the BOI or BI for short. Its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. The FBI has a List of the Top 10 criminals.

Federal Agents

Assistant Director Walter Skinner	Special Agent Victor Henriksen	Special Agent Charlotte Jones	Special Agent Dennis Wells	Special Agent Derek Freeman

Special Agent Donna Kiel	Special Agent Fred Duncan	Special Agent Jeff Terrel	Special Agent Jimmy Woo	Special Agent Talia Warroad

Special Agent Carson	Special Agent Coville	Special Agent Orange	Special Agent Sheridan	Special Agent Wambaugh

Special Agent Alison Kemp	Special Agent Cameron Chase	Special Agent Carla Denton	Special Agent Charlie Dixon	Special Agent Charlie Shaddock

Special Agent Cisco Blaine	Special Agent Coyle Bagman	Special Agent Elwood McNulty	Special Agent Eric Ecsed	Special Agent Franklin Fed

Special Agent Frank Turro	Special Agent Hector Quimby	Special Agent Helen Helligan	Special Agent Henry Dobbs	Special Agent India

Special Agent Jack Kubrick	Special Agent Jackson Lloyd	Special Agent Jacob Farber	Special Agent James Week	Special Agent John Callahan

Special Agent Joy Jones	Special Agent Kass Sage	Special Agent Katarina Armstrong	Special Agent Keith Parker	Special Agent Lisa Carvin

Special Agent Lorna Gaines	Special Agent Matt Ecsed	Special Agent Melanie Ortiz	Special Agent Melissa Mitchell	Special Agent Nick Kovak

Special Agent Nuri Espinosa	Special Agent Preacher John	Special Agent Reagan Irving	Special Agent Scott Forbes	Special Agent Vernon Hatchway

Special Agent Victor Infante	Special Agent Vince Belgard	Special Agent Wyatt Sobel	Doctor Grosz

United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. The armed forces consists of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard.[14][15] All six armed services are among the eight uniformed services of the United States. Each of the different military services is assigned a role and domain. The Army conducts land operations, while the Navy and Marine Corps conduct maritime operations, with the Marine Corps specializing in amphibious and maritime littoral operations in support of the Navy. The Air Force conducts air operations, and the Space Force conducts space operations. The Coast Guard is unique in that it both specializes in maritime operations and is also a law enforcement agency.
From their inception during the American Revolutionary War, the U.S. Armed Forces have played a decisive role in the country's history. They helped forge a sense of national unity and identity through victories in the early-19th-century First and Second Barbary Wars. They played a critical role in the territorial evolution of the U.S., including the American Civil War. The National Security Act of 1947 created the modern U.S. military framework, establishing the National Military Establishment (later the Department of Defense or DoD) headed by the secretary of defense and creating both the U.S. Air Force and National Security Council; in 1949, an amendment to the act merged the cabinet-level departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force into the DoD.
The president of the U.S. is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and forms military policy with the DoD and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, altogether acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out. The U.S. Armed Forces are one of the world's largest military forces in terms of personnel. They draw their personnel from a large pool of professional volunteers. The U.S. has used military conscription, but not since 1973. The Selective Service System retains the power to conscript males, requiring the registration of all male citizens and residents living in the U.S. between the ages of 18 and 25.
The U.S. Armed Forces are considered the world's most powerful military. The military expenditure of the U.S. was US$877 billion in 2022, the highest in the world, accounting for 39% of the world's defense expenditures. The U.S. Armed Forces has significant capabilities in both defense and power projection due to its large budget, resulting in advanced and powerful technologies which enables a widespread deployment of the force around the world, including around 800 military bases outside the U.S. The U.S. Air Force is the world's largest air force, followed by the U.S. Army Aviation Branch. The U.S. Naval Air Forces is the fourth-largest air arm in the world and is the largest naval aviation service, while U.S. Marine Corps Aviation is the world's seventh-largest air arm. The U.S. Navy is the world's largest navy by tonnage. The U.S. Coast Guard is the world's 12th-largest maritime force. The U.S. Space Force is the world's only active independent space force.

United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence. It has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed on 14 June 1775 to fight against the British for independence during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself a continuation of the Continental Army, and thus considers its institutional inception to be the origin of that armed force in 1775.
The U.S. Army is a uniformed service of the United States and is part of the Department of the Army, which is one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The U.S. Army is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the secretary of the Army (SECARMY), and by a chief military officer, the chief of staff of the Army (CSA) who is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is the largest military branch, and in the fiscal year 2022, the projected end strength for the Regular Army (USA) was 480,893 soldiers; the Army National Guard (ARNG) had 336,129 soldiers and the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) had 188,703 soldiers; the combined-component strength of the U.S. Army was 1,005,725 soldiers. As a branch of the armed forces, the mission of the U.S. Army is "to fight and win our Nation's wars, by providing prompt, sustained land dominance, across the full range of military operations and the spectrum of conflict, in support of combatant commanders". The branch participates in conflicts worldwide and is the major ground-based offensive and defensive force of the United States of America.‌

U.S. Army Soldiers

General Argyle Fist	General Babbage	General Bridges	General McGinty	General John Ryker

General George 'G.W.' Bridge	General Robert L. Maverick	General Mark Hamilton	General James Fletcher	Lt. General Fredricks

Colonel Hendershoot	Colonel Preston Case	Captain Catherine Glover	Major Vale	First Lieutenant James Fletcher

First Lieutenant Diane Perrywinkle	Sergeant Major John Diggle	Sergeant Major Cherry	Sergeant Russo

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence. The United States Air Force articulates its core missions as air supremacy, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control.
The United States Air Force is a military service branch organized within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The Air Force through the Department of the Air Force is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force, who reports to the Secretary of Defense and is appointed by the President with Senate confirmation. The highest-ranking military officer in the Air Force is the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, who exercises supervision over Air Force units and serves as one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As directed by the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Air Force, certain Air Force components are assigned to unified combatant commands. Combatant commanders are delegated operational authority of the forces assigned to them, while the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force retain administrative authority over their members.
Along with conducting independent air operations, the United States Air Force provides air support for land and naval forces and aids in the recovery of troops in the field. As of 2017, the service operates more than 5,369 military aircraft and 406 ICBMs. The world's largest air force, it has a $179.7 billion budget and is the second largest service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, with 321,848 active duty airmen, 147,879 civilian personnel, 68,927 reserve airmen, 105,104 Air National Guard airmen, and approximately 60,000 Civil Air Patrol auxiliarists.

Air Force Members

Major General Geroge Yedziniak	General Thaddeus Ross	General Glenn Talbot	General Reginald Fortean	General John Thomas Hilary

Colonel John Michaelis	Colonel Steve Trevor	Lt. Colonel Hank Heywood	Lt. Colonel James Rhodes	Major Matt Talbot

Major Carol Danvers	Major Jonathan Stone	Major Keith Griggs	Captain Randy Eiling	Captain Nathaniel Adams

Lieutenant Lauren Haley	Head of Security Dave Anderson	Doctor Harold Hadley	Doctor Heinrich Megala	Airman Jeremy Merrick

Airman Buzz Baxter	Airman Derek Halperin	Airman Frank Laminsky	Airman Jillian Pearlman	Airman Kim Voight

Airman Martin Allard	Airman Michael Kramer	Airman Robert Lawson	Airman Secretary Etta Candy	General Wade Eiling Dishon. Discharged

United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of its active battle fleet alone exceeding the next 13 navies combined, including 11 allies or partner nations of the U.S. as of 2009. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage (4,635,628 tonnes as of 2023) and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with 11 in service, 1 undergoing trials, two new carriers under construction, and six other carriers planned as of 2024. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the U.S. Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 299 deployable combat vessels and about 4,012 operational aircraft as of July 18, 2023.
The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. After suffering significant loss of goods and personnel at the hands of the Barbary pirates from Algiers, the United States Congress passed the Naval Act of 1794 for the construction of six heavy frigates, the first ships of the Navy. The United States Navy played a major role in the American Civil War by blockading the Confederacy and seizing control of its rivers. It played the central role in the World War II defeat of Imperial Japan. The United States Navy emerged from World War II as the most powerful navy in the world. The modern United States Navy maintains a sizable global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. It is a blue-water navy with the ability to project force onto the littoral regions of the world, engage in forward deployments during peacetime and rapidly respond to regional crises, making it a frequent actor in American foreign and military policy.
The United States Navy is part of the Department of the Navy, alongside the United States Marine Corps, which is its coequal sister service. The Department of the Navy is headed by the civilian secretary of the Navy. The Department of the Navy is itself a military department of the Department of Defense, which is headed by the secretary of defense. The chief of naval operations (CNO) is the most senior Navy officer serving in the Department of the Navy.

United States Marines

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. The Marine Corps has been part of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 30 June 1834 with its sister service, the United States Navy.The USMC operates installations on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world. Additionally, several of the Marines' tactical aviation squadrons, primarily Marine Fighter Attack squadrons, are also embedded in Navy carrier air wings and operate from the aircraft carriers.
The history of the Marine Corps began when two battalions of Continental Marines were formed on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as a service branch of infantry troops capable of fighting both at sea and on shore. In the Pacific theater of World War II, the Corps took the lead in a massive campaign of amphibious warfare, advancing from island to island. As of 2022, the USMC has around 177,200 active duty members and some 32,400 personnel in reserve.
The Marine Corps was founded to serve as an infantry unit aboard naval vessels and was responsible for the security of the ship and its crew by conducting offensive and defensive combat during boarding actions and defending the ship's officers from mutiny; to the latter end, their quarters on the ship were often strategically positioned between the officers' quarters and the rest of the vessel. Continental Marines manned raiding parties, both at sea and ashore. America's first amphibious assault landing occurred early in the Revolutionary War on 3 March 1776 as the Marines gained control of Fort Montagu and Fort Nassau, a British ammunition depot and naval port in New Providence, the Bahamas. The role of the Marine Corps has expanded significantly since then; as the importance of its original naval mission declined with changing naval warfare doctrine and the professionalization of the naval service, the Corps adapted by focusing on formerly secondary missions ashore. The Advanced Base Doctrine of the early 20th century codified their combat duties ashore, outlining the use of Marines in the seizure of bases and other duties on land to support naval campaigns. In 1987 the USMC Sea School was closed; in 1998 all Marine Detachments on board ships were disbanded.