Answer: true
"The United States Armed Forces (is) comprised of Active-duty Reserve and National Guard components today's all-volunteer" military known as the "Total Force." Is today's military known as the 'Total Force?'"

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America. It consists of the Army Marine Corps Navy Air Force Space Force and Coast Guard. The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and forms military policy with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) both federal executive departments ...

Since the adoption of the total force policy in the aftermath of the Vietnam War reserve component soldiers have taken a more active role in U.S. military operations. For example Reserve and Guard units took part in the Gulf War peacekeeping in Kosovo Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Etymology. The term "militia" derives from Old English milite meaning soldiers (plural) militisc meaning military and also classical Latin milit- miles meaning soldier.. The Modern English term militia dates to the year 1590 with the original meaning now obsolete: "the body of soldiers in the service of a sovereign or a state". Subsequently since approximately 1665 militia has taken the ...

The oldest extant United States military band is the United States Marine Corps Band formed in 1798 and known by the moniker "The President's Own". The U.S. armed forces field eleven ensembles and more than 100 smaller a...


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