US/Military
Armed Forces
| US/Military link () | |
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| Headquarters | Pentagon |
| Leaders | Joint Chiefs of Staff,US/Secretary of Defense,US/President |
| Subgroups | U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps,U.S. Space Force,U.S. Coast Guard |
| Interests | Operation Ranch Hand |
See also the the Department of Defense
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America. The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and forms military policy with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out.
The armed forces consists of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard.[1] Special forces are coordinated in the U.S. Special Operations Command and the more sinister Joint Special Operations Command.
Unified Combatant Command
- Full article: Unified Combatant Command
- Full article: Unified Combatant Command
The US Military has divided the entire world into operational areas. There are currently 11 unified combatant commands, and each is established as the highest echelon of military commands, in order to provide effective command and control of all U.S. military forces, regardless of branch of service, during peace or during war time.[2]
General ranks
In order to make it into the rank of General, you have to be approved by the generals;[3] according to the testimony of Kay Griggs, you need one advocate who is a general (implicitly this means some votes may have more weight than others, "somebody who can make you general").
Pollution
The United States military is one of the biggest polluters on earth,[4][5] with more impact than 140 countries combined.[6][7] It is the biggest consumer of fossil fuels on the planet when looking by organization;Template:Cn it spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning (!) in Iraq and Afghanistan alone, according to estimates by Pentagon officials.[8]
According to an EPA list, almost 900 of the nearly 1,200 Superfund sites across the United States are abandoned military facilities or locations that were used to support military needs. One such base, Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, was held accountable for the contamination of the area’s groundwater. The military base was deemed responsible for dumping a large amount of carcinogens in the groundwater between 1953 and 1987. But only in February 2018 the federal government allowed affected individuals to file for official compensation claims.[9]
In war zones the US military has been using depleted uranium against enemy forces and burn pits to get rid of all material. Both have serious, understated health impacts on soldiers, environment (even globally) and population.
References
- ↑ https://www.defense.gov/explore/story/Article/2046035/trump-signs-law-establishing-us-space-force/
- ↑ http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl30245.pdf page 2
- ↑ ca 00:59:00 Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It, Feb 10 2025, Tucker Carlson with Col. Daniel Davis
- ↑ https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-2408760609.html
- ↑ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.htm
- ↑ https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/us-armed-forces-are-bigger-polluters-than-140-countries-increasing-climate-change-in-the-world-370042.html saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://theecologist.org/2019/jun/27/us-military-pollution
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-war-20b-in-air-conditioning saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20190411235936/https://pollution.news/2018-09-27-why-the-us-military-is-the-worlds-largest-polluter.html saved at Archive.is