On any given day, in your Navy, our team of more than 600,000 professional Sailors and Civilians are working together around the globe to perform our mission: deter aggression and, if deterrence fails, win our Nation’s wars. It is not possible to share every aspect of this global team but, through this blog, we offer you a glimpse of what these men and women do.




STATUS OF THE NAVY:
Navy Personnel | ||||
Active Duty: 323,773 | ||||
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Officers: 53,120 | |||
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Enlisted: 266,146 | |||
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Midshipmen: 4,507 | |||
Ready Reserve: 104,532 [As of Jan 2012 ] | ||||
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Selected Reserves: 63,983 | |||
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Individual Ready Reserve: 40,549 | |||
Reserves currently mobilized: 4,763 [As of 6 Mar 2012] | ||||
Personnel on deployment: 47,943 | ||||
Navy Department Civilian Employees: 203,609 | ||||
Ships and Submarines | ||||
Deployable Battle Force Ships: 283 | ||||
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Total Ships Underway: 89 (31% of total) | |||
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Deployed Ships Underway: 55 (19% of total) | |||
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Attack Submarines Underway: 33 | |||
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Other Underway: 34 (12% of total) | |||
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Total Ships Deployed/Underway: 128 (45% of total) | |||
Ships Underway | ||||
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Aircraft Carriers: | |||
USS Nimitz (CVN 68) – Pacific Ocean | ||||
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) – 5th Fleet | ||||
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) – 5th Fleet | ||||
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Amphibious Assault Ships: | |||
USS Wasp (LHD 1) – Atlantic Ocean | ||||
USS Essex (LHD 2) – 7th Fleet | ||||
USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) – Atlantic Ocean | ||||
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) – 7th Fleet | ||||
USS Makin Island (LHD 8) – 5th Fleet | ||||
Aircraft (operational): 3700+ |