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Defense Primer: Department of the Navy
One Military Department with Two Operation and]
Military Services appropriation a
The Department of the Navy (DON) is a single military funding for the
department that includes two military services-the Navy
and the Marine Corps. As such, DON has a single civilian A few DON ap
leader, the Secretary of the Navy, and two four-star military both the Navy
service chiefs-an admiral whose title is the Chief of Naval refer only to th
Operations (CNO), and a general whose title is the Procurement, N
Commandant of the Marine Corps. Although the title procurement of
Secretary of the Navy includes only the term Navy, the the Research, L
secretary serves as the civilian leader for both the Navy and (RDTEN) acco
Marine Corps. The CNO and the Commandant of the funding for bot
Marine Corps are members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Procurement of
(JCS). The Secretary of the Navy is Carlos Del Toro, the (PANMC) accc
CNO is Admiral Michael Gilday, and the Commandant of Navy and Mari
the Marine Corps is General David Berger.
The Navy's shi
Naval Refers to Both the Navy and Shipbuilding a
Marine Corps account, funds
Although the term naval is often used to refer specifically including amph
to the Navy, it more properly refers to both the Navy and Navy ships ope
Marine Corps, because both the Navy and Marine Corps are of amphibious
naval services. Even though the Marine Corps sometimes and equipment
operates for extended periods as a land fighting force (as it movements anc
did, for example, in Afghanistan and Iraq), and is often Navy's amphib
thought of as the country's second land army, it informally as t
nevertheless is, by law, a naval service. 10 U.S.C. alligator, an an
8001(a)(3) states that The term 'member of the naval from the water
service' means a person appointed or enlisted in, or
inducted or conscripted into, the Navy or the Marine DON Bud
Corps. DON officials sometimes refer to the two services DON's propos
as the Navy-Marine Corps team. See also the section below which, DON st
entitled The Naval Service. and $50.3 billic
of appropriatio
Navy in DOD Budget Documents Can personnel, abo
Mean DON about 28.6% is
DOD budget documents that divide the DOD budget into research and de
four military departments often label those departments as construction an
Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense-Wide. In using data
from such documents, it is important to remember that the DON Pers
category called Navy in these cases refers to the DON's propos
Department of the Navy, and thus includes funding for both 839,992 person
the Navy and Marine Corps. uniformed pers
(10.8%), and 2
Blue Dollars and Green Dollars in budget request
DON Budget (346,300 active
People who work with the DON budget sometimes refer to or about 72.3%
blue dollars, meaning funding in the DON budget for the of 232,770 Ma
Navy, and green dollars, meaning funding in the DON 33,000 reserve,
budget for the Marine Corps. Of the more than two dozen total requested
appropriation accounts that form DON's budget, many
contain funding specifically for either the Navy or Marine Coast Gua
Corps. For example, the Operation and Maintenance, Navy Unlike DON, w
(OMN), appropriation account contains operation and with the Depar
maintenance funding primarily for the Navy, while the U.S. Code prim
Updated November 15, 2022
Maintenance, Marine Corps (OMMC),
ccount contains operation and maintenance
Marine Corps.
propriation accounts include funding for
and Marine Corps, even though their titles
e Navy. For example, the Aircraft
avy (APN) appropriation account funds the
both Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, and
)evelopment, Test, and Evaluation, Navy
unt includes research and development
h the Navy and Marine Corps. The
Ammunition, Navy/Marine Corps
)unt includes funding for procuring both
ne Corps ammunition.
pbuilding account, known formally as the
id Conversion, Navy (SCN) appropriation
the procurement of various types of ships,
iibious ships. Although amphibious ships are
rated by Navy crews, the primary function
ships is to transport Marine Corps personnel
and support Marine Corps ship-to-shore
d Marine Corps operations ashore. The
ious ships are sometimes referred to
he Gator Navy, a shortening of the term
imal that, like the Marine Corps, can move
to land, and then back into the water.
get
ed FY2023 budget requests $230.8 billion, of
ates, $180.5 billion (78.2%) is for the Navy
)n (21.2%) is for the Marine Corps. In terms
n groups, about 25.3% is for military
ut 33.7% is for operations and maintenance,
for procurement, about 10.4% is for
velopment, and about 2.0% is for military
d family housing.
onnel
ed budget for FY2023 requests a total of
nel, including 523,300 active-duty
onnel (62.3%), 90,700 reserve personnel
25,992 civilian personnel (26.9%). The
ed a total of 607,222 Navy personnel
-duty, 57,700 reserve, and 203,222 civilian),
of the total requested for DON, and a total
rine Corps personnel (177,000 active-duty,
and 22,770 civilian), or about 27.7% of the
for DON.
rd in Relation to DON
which is part of DOD and is covered (along
tments of the Army and Air Force) in the
arily in Title 10, the Coast Guard is part of](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.crs/govejjx0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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