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handle is hein.crs/govbbcx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Con gre ional Re earch Seridce ~ Informing he legislative debate i Ce 1914 Updated September 20, 2019 Defense Primer: Department of the Navy One Military Department with Two A few DON appropriation accounts include funding for Military Services both the Navy and Marine Corps, even though their titles The Department of the Navy (DON) is a single military refer only to the Navy. For example, the Aircraft department that includes two military services-the Navy Procurement, Navy (APN) appropriation account funds the and the Marine Corps. As such, DON has a single civilian procurement of both Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, and leader, the Secretary of the Navy, and two four-star military the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy service chiefs-an admiral whose title is the Chief of Naval (RDTEN) account includes research and development Operations (CNO), and a general whose title is the funding for both the Navy and Marine Corps. The Commandant of the Marine Corps. Although the title Procurement of Ammunition, Navy/Marine Corps Secretary of the Navy includes only the term Navy, the (PANMC) account includes funding for procuring both secretary serves as the civilian leader for both the Navy and Navy and Marine Corps ammunition. Marine Corps. The CNO and the Commandant of the Marine Corps are members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The Navy's shipbuilding account, known formally as the (JCS). Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy (SCN) appropriation account, funds the procurement of various types of ships, Naval Refers to Both the Navy and including amphibious ships. Although amphibious ships are MarIne Corps Navy ships operated by Navy crews, the primary function Although the term naval is often used to refer specifically of amphibious ships is to transport Marine Corps personnel to the Navy, it more properly refers to both the Navy and and equipment and support Marine Corps ship-to-shore Marine Corps, because both the Navy and Marine Corps are movements and Marine Corps operations ashore. The naval services. Even though the Marine Corps sometimes Navy's amphibious ships are sometimes referred to operates for extended periods as a land fighting force (as it informlly as the Gator Navy, a shortening of the term has done in recent years, for example, in Afghanistan and alligator, an animal that, like the Marine Corps, can move Iraq), and is often thought of as the country's second land from the water to land, and then back into the water. army, it nevertheless is, by law, a naval service. 10 U.S.C. 8001(a)(3) states that The term 'member of the naval DON Budget service' means a person appointed or enlisted in, or DON's enacted budget for FY2019 is $196066 billion, of inducted or conscripted into, the Navy or the Marine which, DON states, $152914 billion (78.0%) is for the Corps. DON officials sometimes refer to the two services Navy and $43152 billion (about 22.0%) is for the Marine as the Navy-Marine Corps team. Corps. DON's proposed budget for FY2020 requests a total of $205.572 billion, of which, DON states, $159.698 Navy in DOD Budget Documents Can (77.7%) is for the Navy and $45874 billion (22.3%) is for Mean DON the Marine Corps. In terms of appropriation groups, about DOD budget documents that divide the DOD budget into 25.3% of DON's proposed FY2020 budget is for military four military departments often label those departments as personnel, about 33.3% is for operations and maintenance, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense-Wide. In using data about 29.7% is for procurement, about 9.9% is for research from such documents, it is important to remember that the and development, and about 1.7% is for infrastructure. category called Navy in these cases refers to the Department of the Navy, and thus includes funding for both DON Personnel the Navy and Marine Corps. DON in FY2019 included a total of 833,384 personnel, including 521,500 active-duty uniformed personnel Blue Dollars and Green Dollars in (62.6%), 97,600 reserve personnel (11.7%), and 214,284 DON Budget civilian personnel (25.7%). The Navy included a total People who work with the DON budget sometimes refer to 587,202 personnel (335,400 active-duty, 59,100 reserve, blue dollars, meaning funding in the DON budget for the and 192,702 civilian), or about 70.5% of DON total, while Navy, and green dollars, meaning funding in the DON the Marine Corps included 246,182 personnel (186,100 budget for the Marine Corps. Of the more than two dozen active-duty, 38,500 reserve, and 21,582 civilian), or about appropriation accounts that form DON's budget, many 29.5% of the DON total. contain funding specifically for either the Navy or Marine Corps. For example, the Operation and Maintenance, Navy DON's proposed budget for FY2020 requests a total of (OMN), appropriation account contains operation and 841,676 personnel, including 526,700 active-duty maintenance funding primarily for the Navy, while the uniformed personnel (62.6%), 97,500 reserve personnel Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps (OMMC), (11.6%), and 217,476 civilian personnel (25.8%). The appropriation account contains operation and maintenance budget requests a total of 595,002 Navy personnel (340,500 funding for the Marine Corps. active-duty, 59,000 reserve, and 195,502 civilian), or about >s://crsreports.congress.gos

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