Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 1980s sun kasance mafi yawan shekarun da aka sake tsarawa. Sojojin sun canza zuwa rundunar sa kai tare da kara jaddadawa kan horo da fasaha. Dokar Goldwater <unk> Nichols ta 1986 ta kirkiro Rundunar Sojoji ta Unified Combatant Commands, tare da kawo Sojoji tare da sauran rassan sojoji guda uku a karkashin hadadden tsari, tsarin tsari na kasa. Sojojin sun kuma taka rawa a mamaye Grenada a 1983 (Operation Urgent Fury
) da Panama a shekara ta 1989 (Operation Just Cause).