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CONGRESSIONAL   ACTION - 12045_10
THE  DEPARTMENT  OF DEFENSE (DOD)

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organizations were created to oversee particular activities of central importance to the Navy. Some of these organizations were intelligence, security, telecommunications,  weather,  oceanography, education  and  training,  and  Naval  Reserves. Although it is larger and more complex, today’s Department of the Navy still retains one aspect of  the  1798  organization.  That  aspect  is  the division of the operating forces from the Shore Establishment. The division between the operating forces and the Shore Establishment became sharper through the 1949 amendment to the 1947 National Security Act. The amendment placed the operating forces of the Navy and other services into  unified  and  specified  commands.  Both commands are under an operational chain of command to the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) and the President. NAVY RELATIONSHIP TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE With the establishing of the DOD, the unified and specified combatant commands began. These commands have broad continuing missions and consist of operating forces. Unified commands consist of operating forces of two or more services or components. An example of a unified command is the Pacific Command headed by the Commander in Chief, Pacific  (CINCPAC).  Component  commands of  CINCPAC  are  the  Navy’s  Pacific  Fleet (PACFLT); area Army Command (USARPAC); area Air Force Command (PACAF); and Fleet Marine  Force,  Pacific  (FMFPAC). Specified  commands  consist  of  operating forces from only one service. An example of a specified command is the Strategic Air Command. It consists only of forces from the U.S. Air Force. CHAIN OF COMMAND FOR COMBAT FORCES The Secretary of Defense exercises two lines of control over the combatant forces of the military departments: operational and adminis- trative (fig. 1-2). The operational chain of command extends from the President to the SECDEF through the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the  commanders  of  the  unified  and  specified commands and then to the operating forces. The administrative chain of command extends from the President to the SECDEF to the secretaries of the individual military departments. It then extends from the military departments through their respective service channels to the operating forces.  The  administrative  chain  oversees  the training, readiness, administration, and support of the operating forces. The chiefs of individual services, such as the CNO, have no direct operational authority within Figure 1-2.-Organizational relationship of the Department of the Navy to the Department of Defense. 1-3







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