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United States Navy

Navy · United States · 344,600 strong

The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces, designated as the navy of the United States in the Constitution. It is the world's second largest navy by vessel count, with 290 combat vessels, but by far the largest by displacement, and it has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven carriers in service as of 2024. The Navy originates from the Continental Navy of the American Revolutionary War, and the Naval Act of 1794 provided for its first ships; in World War II it was central in defeating the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War, supplanting the Royal Navy as the world's largest navy. Headed by the secretary of the Navy with the chief of naval operations as its most senior officer, it is part of the Department of the Navy alongside the coequal United States Marine Corps.

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Sub-units 6

People who served 149

Matthew C. Perry Commodore · 1808–1858 Robert F. Stockton 1811–1850 John Ancrum Winslow 1827–1873 William Henry Hudson Southerland 1867–1914 Frank Jack Fletcher Admiral · 1906–1947 Raymond A. Spruance Admiral · 1907–1948 Arthur W. Radford Admiral · 1916–1957 Robert A. Lovett Lieutenant Commander · 1918–1919 John F. Kennedy Lieutenant · 1941–1945 Lyndon B. Johnson Lieutenant Commander · 1941–1942 John Paul Stevens Lieutenant commander · 1942–1945 Byron White Lieutenant Commander · 1942–1945 Melvin Laird Lieutenant (junior grade) · 1942–1946 Richard Nixon Commander · 1942–1946 George H. W. Bush 1942–1945 Gerald Ford Lieutenant Commander · 1942–1946 Malcolm Wilson 1943–1945 Clark Clifford Captain · 1944–1946 Robert F. Kennedy Seaman Apprentice · 1944–1946 Jimmy Carter Lieutenant · 1946–1953 Frank Carlucci Lieutenant · 1952–1954 Don Sundquist 1957–1963 John Kerry Lieutenant · 1966–1978 James G. Stavridis Admiral · 1976–2013 Mikie Sherrill 1994–2003 John McCain Captain David Conner Raphael Semmes Samuel Francis Du Pont John N. Mitchell Thomas S. Gates Jr. Lieutenant Commander Eugene R. Black Sr. John W. Weeks Robert L. Ghormley Vice Admiral Neil Armstrong James Lawrence Captain Donald Rumsfeld Captain Robert Henley Captain Thomas Cassin Kinkaid Admiral William Thomas Sampson Contrammiraglio Chester W. Nimitz Fleet Admiral William H. P. Blandy Admiral Cyrus Vance Lieutenant Warren Christopher Josiah Tattnall General John Connally David Farragut Edmund Muskie Lieutenant William French Smith Husband E. Kimmel Rear Admiral William H. Webster Lieutenant Arthur Dewey Struble Admiral David Dixon Porter William P. Rogers Lieutenant Commander William Halsey Jr. Fleet Admiral Thomas ap Catesby Jones Catesby ap Roger Jones Lieutenant James Forrestal Lieutenant David E. Jeremiah Admiral George Dewey Admiral of the Navy Michael Mullen Admiral Bowman H. McCalla Christopher W. Grady Admiral Andrew Hull Foote C. Douglas Dillon Charles Henry Davis Daniel Patterson Captain Marc Mitscher Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer Admiral George Dominic Murray Admiral Henry Glass Oliver Hazard Perry Commodore Joseph Metcalf, III Vice Admiral John Marston Joshua Barney Jesse Elliott Captain Leighton W. Smith, Jr. Admiral William J. Crowe Admiral John Adolphus Dahlgren Hugh Thompson Jr. William D. Leahy Fleet Admiral Roy L. Johnson Admiral William Wallace Wotherspoon Major General Winfield Scott Schley U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. Admiral Franklin Buchanan Admiral Isaac Chauncey Commodore John Lorimer Worden Joseph J. Clark Admiral John Taylor Wood Harry W. Hill Admiral John Rodgers Frederick C. Sherman Vice Admiral Richmond K. Turner Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee Henry H. Bell Sidney Souers Rear Admiral Warren Anderson (businessman) Joe Kernan James Oren Ellis, Jr. Admiral Ralph Austin Bard H. Struve Hensel W. John Kenney Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Vice Admiral Robert B. Meyner Henry Kent Hewitt Admiral John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772) Commodore Richard Valentine Morris Commodore Richard Dale Commodore Aubrey Fitch Admiral Carleton H. Wright Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague Admiral George Busbee John A. Volpe Francis Cherry William Bainbridge Commodore Endicott Peabody John Downes Rodman M. Price Paul A. Dever Frank Kelso Admiral Albert Kautz Alexander Slidell MacKenzie Leo Ryan Michael P. Murphy Lieutenant Erik S. Kristensen George McMillin George C. Read Henry L. Roosevelt Lieutenant Colonel James W. Nicholson Rear Admiral Jonathan Howe Admiral Lewis Compton Thomas Truxtun Commodore Mahlon Tisdale Vice Admiral Theodore Stark Wilkinson Admiral Robert C. Giffen Vice Admiral Stephen Decatur Commodore Jeremy Michael Boorda Admiral Stansfield Turner Admiral Richard Wainwright Rear Admiral Norman Scott Rear Admiral James V. Allred Theodore Douglas Robinson Goodwin Knight Foster Furcolo James Florio Lieutenant Commander Richard Helms William Raborn Vice Admiral Truman H. Newberry

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