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Defense Primer: Department of the Navy


The Department of the Navy (DON) is a single military
department that includes two military services the Navy
and the Marine Corps. As such, DON has a single civilian
leader, the Secretary of the Navy, and two four-star military
service chiefs an admiral whose title is the Chief of Naval
Operations (CNO), and a general whose title is the
Commandant  of the Marine Corps. Although the title
Secretary of the Navy includes only the term Navy, the
secretary serves as the civilian leader for both the Navy and
Marine Corps. The CNO and the Commandant  of the
Marine Corps are members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(JCS).


marine Corps
Although the term naval is often used to refer specifically
to the Navy, it more properly refers to both the Navy and
Marine Corps, because both the Navy and Marine Corps are
naval services. Even though the Marine Corps sometimes
operates for extended periods as a land fighting force (as it
has done in recent years, for example, in Afghanistan and
Iraq), and is often thought of as the country's second land
army, it nevertheless is, by law, a naval service. 10 U.S.C.
8001(a)(3) states that The term 'member of the naval
service' means a person appointed or enlisted in, or
inducted or conscripted into, the Navy or the Marine
Corps. DON  officials sometimes refer to the two services
as the Navy-Marine Corps team.


ME3an   DON
DOD  budget documents that divide the DOD budget into
four military departments often label those departments as
Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense-Wide. In using data
from such documents, it is important to remember that the
category called Navy in these cases refers to the
Department of the Navy, and thus includes funding for both
the Navy and Marine Corps.

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DON Budget
People who work with the DON budget sometimes refer to
blue dollars, meaning funding in the DON budget for the
Navy, and green dollars, meaning funding in the DON
budget for the Marine Corps. Of the more than two dozen
appropriation accounts that form DON's budget, many
contain funding specifically for either the Navy or Marine
Corps. For example, the Operation and Maintenance, Navy
(OMN),  appropriation account contains operation and
maintenance funding primarily for the Navy, while the
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps (OMMC),
appropriation account contains operation and maintenance
funding for the Marine Corps.


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A few DON  appropriation accounts include funding for
both the Navy and Marine Corps, even though their titles
refer only to the Navy. For example, the Aircraft
Procurement, Navy (APN) appropriation account funds the
procurement of both Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, and
the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy
(RDTEN)  account includes research and development
funding for both the Navy and Marine Corps. The
Procurement of Ammunition, Navy/Marine Corps
(PANMC)   account includes funding for procuring both
Navy and Marine Corps ammunition.

The Navy's shipbuilding account, known formally as the
Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy (SCN) appropriation
account, funds the procurement of various types of ships,
including amphibious ships. Although amphibious ships are
Navy ships operated by Navy crews, the primary function
of amphibious ships is to transport Marine Corps personnel
and equipment and support Marine Corps ship-to-shore
movements  and Marine Corps operations ashore. The
Navy's amphibious ships are sometimes referred to
informally as the Gator Navy, a shortening of the term
alligator, an animal that, like the Marine Corps, can move
from the water to land, and then back into the water.

DON Budget
DON's  proposed budget for FY2021 requests a total of
$207.1 billion, of which, DON states, $161.0 billion
(77.8%) is for the Navy and $46.0 billion (22.2%) is for the
Marine Corps. In terms of appropriation groups, about
26.7% of DON's  proposed FY2021 budget is for military
personnel, about 34.1 % is for operations and maintenance,
about 27.6% is for procurement, about 10.4% is for
research and development, and about 1.3% is for
infrastructure.

DON Persnne
DON's  proposed budget for FY2021 requests a total of
850,101 personnel, including 531,900 active-duty
uniformed personnel (62.6%), 97,300 reserve personnel
(11.4%), and 220,901 civilian personnel (26.0%). The
budget requests a total of 604,605 Navy personnel (347,800
active-duty, 58,800 reserve, and 198,005 civilian), or about
71.1% of the total requested for DON, and a total of
245,496 Marine Corps personnel (184,100 active-duty,
38,500 reserve, and 22,896 civilian), or about 28.9% of the
total requested for DON.

Coast   G     r     RdEatn to DON
Unlike DON, which is part of DOD and is covered (along
with the Departments of the Army and Air Force) in the
U.S. Code primarily in Title 10, the Coast Guard is part of
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is
covered primarily in Title 14. Even though the Coast Guard
is not part of DOD, Title 14 states that the Coast Guard

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