Passage: The United States Navy has over 400,000 personnel, approximately a quarter of whom are in ready reserve. Of those on active duty, more than eighty percent are enlisted sailors and around fifteen percent are commissioned officers; the rest are midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy and midshipmen of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at over 180 universities around the country and officer candidates at the Navy's Officer Candidate School.Enlisted sailors complete basic military training at boot camp and then are sent to complete training for their individual careers.Sailors prove they have mastered skills and deserve responsibilities by completing Personnel Qualification Standards (PQS) tasks and examinations.Miongoni mwa muhimu zaidi ni "Warfare", ambayo inaonyesha kiwango cha uwezo wa msafiri katika Surface Warfare Aviation, Warfare Information, Naval Warfare Domination, Air Warfare, Submarine Warfare, na askari wengi wana sifa maalum za usafiri wa baharini.
zaidi ya 400,000