ARMY
The army has about 400,000 enlisted personnel & about 80,000 of these higher rankers
officers
This Navy marching song became popular after the annual Army-Navy football game in 1907
"Anchors Aweigh"
Each year, Marines must score 250 out of 350 on a point scale to qualify as this type of "man"
marksman
The song most commonly associated with the Air Force begins, "Off we go into" this
"the wild blue yonder"
The Jayhawk helicopter can reach 205 miles per hour as one of the Coast Guard's main assets in SAR, "search and" this
rescue
In 1970 Anna Mae Hays became the first woman to achieve this rank in the U.S. Army
general
Trident & Poseidon missiles are launched from this type of ship
a submarine
As the world's shores become more populated, the Marines must be expert at operating in this type of area, the U in MOUT training
urban
By the end of the Vietnam War, the USAF was guiding bombs with this acronymic technology dating from around 1960
laser
The USCG has reach--a PSU went to protect Navy ships after the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in this Mideast country
Yemen
Opened in 1802, the U.S. Army's military academy is at West Point in this state
New York
Command & strategy courses are taught at the Naval War College in this Rhode Island summer resort
Newport
Every Marine officer completes six months training at Quantico to qualify to lead this unit, usually made up of three squads
a platoon
The continental U.S.-based interceptor force is provided by this homefront body formed the same day as the USAF
the Air National Guard
One job of a USCG tender is inspecting & replacing buoys, fog signals, lights & other indicators, collectively called aids to this
navigation
In 1863 the U.S. government passed the first of these laws compelling young men to sign up for service in the Army
draft laws/conscription laws
In 1866 this commander who fought at Mobile Bay became the 1st Navy officer promoted to the rank of Admiral
Admiral Farragut
To protect Marines from insurgent IEDs, the MRAP vehicle has a V-shaped this, a term more associated with ships, to disperse blast force
a hull
The A-10 Thunderbolt II is less glamorously nicknamed for this hideous animal
the warthog
In WWII a major Coast Guard task was hunting these vessels, Hitler's main weapon in the Battle of the Atlantic
About 200,000 strong, this non-active duty part of the U.S. Army has its headquarters in Atlanta
the Reserves
During the 1950s the Navy named a class of aircraft carriers for this first Defense Secretary
James Forrestal
Marines here at Quantico train with this standard Marine sidearm, whose name goes back to a 16th-century Venetian gun barrel maker
a Beretta
This European operation that began in 1948 was the independent USAF's first major international challenge
the Berlin Airlift
The Coast Guard looks out for the smuggling of drugs & people in this practice, from the old French for "to forbid"
interdiction