United States Marine Corps Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Department of the Navy=== The [[United States Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]], led by the [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]], is a military department of the cabinet-level U.S. Department of Defense that oversees the Marine Corps and the Navy. The most senior Marine officer is the [[Commandant of the United States Marine Corps|Commandant]] (unless a Marine officer is the [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff|Chairman of the Joint Chiefs]] or [[Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff|Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs]]), responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for organizing, recruiting, training, and equipping the Marine Corps so that its forces are ready for deployment under the operational command of the [[Unified combatant command|combatant commanders]]. The Marine Corps is organized into four principal subdivisions: [[Headquarters Marine Corps]] (HQMC), the Operating Forces, the Supporting Establishment, and the [[United States Marine Corps Reserve|Marine Forces Reserve]] (MARFORRES or USMCR).{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page