The Brazilian Armed Forces (, ) is the unified military organization comprising the Brazilian Army ( including the Brazilian Army Aviation ), the Brazilian Navy ( including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation ) and the Brazilian Air Force.

The Brazilian Navy which is the oldest of the Brazilian Armed Forces, includes the Brazilian Marine Corps and the Brazilian Naval Aviation.

* Naval Forces: Rear admiral Plamen Manushev

It was formed in 1975 ( Naval squadron Royal Fiji Military Forces ), following the government's ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea convention.

::: The Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue to be vested in the Queen.

The Lithuanian Armed Forces consist of the Lithuanian Land Force, Lithuanian Air Force, Lithuanian Naval Force, Lithuanian Special Operations Force and other units: Logistics Command, Training and Doctrine Command, Headquarters Battalion, Military Police.

The 350, 000-person Navy included Naval Air Force units of 34, 000 men, the Coastal Defense Forces of 38, 000, and the Marine Corps of 56, 500.

The U. S. Eighth Army, Seventh Air Force, and U. S. Naval Forces Korea are stationed in South Korea.

The 1922 War Office report detailed the casualties of " soldiers who lost their lives ", " killed in action, died as prisoners, died of wounds and missing " from the Regular and Territorial Forces and Royal Naval Division: 702, 410 from the UK, 507 from " other colonies " and 2, 393 British serving in the Indian Empire Army.

Although the constitution of Canada states that the " Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen ," the governor general acts in her place as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces and is permitted through the 1947 Letters Patent to use the title Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada.

The Teams deploy as Naval Special Warfare Squadrons or Special Operations Task Forces and can deploy anywhere in the world.

The headquarters of both the Ukrainian Naval Forces and Russia's Black Sea Fleet are located in the city.

Sevastopol remains the location of the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters with the Ukrainian Naval Forces Headquarters also based in the city.

The US Navy Brown Water Riverine Forces inactivated after the Vietnam War, maintaining only the US Naval Reserve PBRs and auxiliary craft at Mare Island, until the 1996 base closure ; at which time the Reserve units moved to new facilities in Sacramento, California.

The Naval Component's ranks are unique in the Belgian Armed Forces.

The American Forces Network ( AFN ) has a station intended for U. S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

It was called the Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces of Kure 101st, Sasebo 101st and 102nd.

* 2 November 1935 11 February 1940: His Excellency the Right Honourable the Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Militia and Naval and Air Forces of Canada

Within the Booderee National Park is HMAS Creswell, the Royal Australian Navy College named after Sir William Rooke Creswell, the Director of the Commonwealth Naval Forces which later became the RAN.

Soviet Naval and the Strategic Missile Forces divisions.

In North America, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon ( near Canada ) joined the Free French after an " invasion " on 24 December 1941 by Rear Admiral Emile Muselier and the forces he was able to load onto three corvettes and a submarine of the Free French Naval Forces ( Forces navales françaises libres, or FNFL ).

* Commander, Naval Ordnance Systems Command.

* Commander, Naval Ordnance Systems Command.

Access to the Naval Station is very limited and must be preapproved through the appropriate local chain of command with Commander Naval Base Gitmo as the final approval.

Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander.

In the United States, the United States Navy's Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command oversees meteorological efforts for the Navy and Marine Corps while the United States Air Force's Air Force Weather Agency is responsible for the Air Force and Army.

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

In the 1980s, under the leadership of Chief Naval Commander Liu Huaqing, the navy developed into a regional naval power, though naval construction continued at a level somewhat below the 1970s rate.

In the United States, every Naval officer at or above the rank of Lieutenant Commander is required to own a sword, which can be prescribed for any formal outdoor ceremonial occasion ; they are normally worn for changes of command and parades.

He served as Head of the Cruiser-Destroyer Combat Systems Requirements Section and Force Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer for the Commander, Naval Surface Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, and he directed the Joint Staff's Crisis Action Team for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

* Commander of the Naval Reserve Readiness Command Region II, and assistant chief of naval operations-air warfare

** William Michael Crose, United States Navy Commander and the seventh Naval Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1867 )

* November 23 – Ernest Joseph King, Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations ( COMINCH-CNO ) during World War II ( d. 1956 )

Roger Bruce Chaffee ( February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967 ), Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, was a Naval Aviator, aeronautical engineer and a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program.

The base also supports more than 70 tenant commands including, Commander Navy Region Northeast ( CNRNE ), Commander Submarine Group Two ( CSG2 ), Naval Submarine School ( NAVSUBSCOL ), Naval Submarine Support Facility ( NSSF ), three Submarine Squadron staffs, and the housing and support facilities for more than 21, 000 civilian workers, active-duty service members and their families.

On 7 May 1943, Lieutenant Commander Draper L. Kauffman, " The Father of Naval Combat Demolition ," was directed to set up a school and train people to eliminate obstacles on an enemy-held beach prior to an invasion.

As a Lieutenant Commander, Mustin established Naval Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, the Navy ’ s first permanent airstation together with a flight school in January 1914, and became its first Commanding Officer.

Vice Admiral Mustin, a 1955 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served in the 1980s as the Naval Inspector General, Commander, Second Fleet and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans and Policy.

Lieutenant Commander Mustin, also a Naval Academy graduate ( 1962 ) earned a Bronze Star during the Vietnam War for river patrol combat action.

Before the demolition could take place, Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair ( Director of Naval Intelligence and head of MI6 ) bought the site.

On 24 April 1946 Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Chester Nimitz issued a directive ordering the formation of a flight exhibition team to boost Navy morale, demonstrate naval air power, and maintain public interest in naval aviation.

The Navy stated that one of the individuals was a man and the other a woman, one a Marine and the other from the Navy, and that Rear Admiral Mark Guadagnini, chief of Naval air training, was reviewing the situation.

Admiral Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations wrote a position paper that helped Kennedy to differentiate between what they termed a " quarantine " of offensive weapons and a blockade of all materials, claiming that a classic blockade was not the original intention.

The current Chief of Naval Operations is Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert.

By World War II, however, the practice was so widespread that during the Nuremberg trials, the charges against German Admiral Karl Dönitz for ordering unrestricted submarine warfare were dropped, notwithstanding that the activity constituted a clear violation of the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936.

* 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U. S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.

Under Admiral John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Jellicoe was made Director of Naval Ordnance in 1905.

* Admiral Asif Sandila — Chief of Naval Staff

The program was led by David Peck Todd with the military assistance of Admiral Edward W. Eberle ( Chief of Naval Operations ), with William F. Friedman ( chief cryptographer of the US Army ), assigned to translate any potential Martian messages.

( The movie adaptation of The Hunt for Red October tells Ryan's story differently: Admiral Joshua Painter states that he attended the United States Naval Academy and that in the " summer of his third year, he went down in a chopper accident in the Med.

Under the long-term leadership of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the first test reactor plant, a prototype referred to as S1W, started up in USA in 1953 at the Naval Reactors Facility in Idaho.

Ashore, Admiral Clark first served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Systems Analysis Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Admiral Clark became the 27th Chief of Naval Operations on July 21, 2000, relieving Admiral Jay L. Johnson.

* January 1 – Arleigh Burke, U. S Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations ( b. 1901 )

His son, Vice Admiral Lloyd Mustin ,( 1911 – 1999 ), a 1932 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, took part in developing the Navy's first lead-computing anti-aircraft gun sight, which proved of major importance in the air-sea actions of World War II, and served on the cruiser during the naval battle of Guadalcanal.

Additionally, Vice Admiral Henry C. Mustin's sons, Captain Lloyd M. Mustin II and Captain John Mustin both continue to serve in the Naval Reserves following an initial tour of active service.

During 1933, while at the Office of the Inspector of Naval Material in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rickover translated Das Unterseeboot ( The Submarine ) by World War I German Imperial Navy Admiral Hermann Bauer.

He subsequently went around several layers of superior officers, and in 1947 went directly to the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, by chance also a former submariner.

The town was visited in 1802 by Admiral Horatio Nelson, who knew the importance of the area's woodland in providing timber for the British Navy and approved a Naval Temple built in his honour on the nearby Kymin Hill.

For Raeder as for other naval officers, the defeat of 1918 was especially humiliating because under the charismatic leadership of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the Naval State Secretary from 1897-1917, the Navy had been promoted as the service which would give Germany the " world power status " that her leaders craved, and to that end, vast sums of money had been spent in the Anglo-German naval race before 1914.