PEOPLE: The U.S. President, as commander-in-chief of all U.S. Uniformed Services, can inspire Americans to greatness
AGN.News Team
March 10, 2024
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – The President of the United States leads the executive branch of the federal government. He’s also referred to as the chief executive. He’s also the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. As such, he or she exercises supreme command and control over all armed forces or all military branches of the United States.
On January 20, 2021, The Honorable President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., was sworn into office as the 46th president after winning the 2020 presidential election. Among his many responsibilities is to sign into law Congress-approved legislation, like the American Rescue Plan Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent U.S. recession.
In addition to many other presidential duties, the president can sign Executive Orders as the chief executive, to address issues facing the nation or send the armed forces of the U.S. on missions to addresses potential threats, any existential crises that may arise, or an eminent threat to the country. Keeping America safe has been granted to him as part of his constitutionally granted powers.
Constitution of the United States
According to Article II, Section 2, Clause I of the Constitution, the president of the United States is “Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into actual service of the United States.”
Since the National Security Act of 1947, this has been understood to mean all United States Armed Forces or military forces of the United States.
The eight U.S. uniformed services
The armed forces consist of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard. All six-armed services are among the eight uniformed services of the United States.
The other two are the U.S. NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (US PHSCC) also called the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service is the uniformed service branch of the United States Public Health Service (PHS)
It is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States along with the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
The US PHSCC consist only of commissioned officers, with no enlisted or warrant officer ranks and is led by the surgeon general who holds the rank of vice admiral. The surgeon general reports directly to the Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health.
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
Another one of the federal uniformed services is NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps. This branch is known informally as the NOAA Corps. This branch operates under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA is a scientific agency overseen by the Department of Commerce.
The NOAA Corps’ primary mission is to monitor oceanic conditions, support major waterways, and monitor atmospheric conditions.
The 321 commissioned officers of NOAA Corps, as of 2024, have ships and aircraft available to support their service assignments and to accomplish their mission. All commissioned officers are classified as noncombatants, unless directed to serve as part of the military by the President of the United States.
The NOAA Corps and the US PHSCC are the only U.S. uniformed services that consist only of commissioned officers, with no enlisted or warrant officer ranks.
All Uniformed Services acts under presidential authority to perform an assigned mission ordered by the president. The chain of command has functioned well for over 249 years.
The President of the United States has, as the chief executive, the power to seek assistance from any administration official to address any problems or threats to the safety of the country. There are administration officials in U.S. government whose expertise and wisdom makes this country – the United States of America.
Administration officials, Congress, and the judiciary have continued to work together to take action necessary to save lives and protect the freedoms of all Americans at home and abroad.
Historically, many other countries have repeatedly partnered with America in support of and in defense of the lives and property of Americans so peace and security can be restored to communities, families and friends.
The 46th President’s job demands a lot
The President of the United States has seen many emerging threats on a global scale that needs urgent attention. For example, health and safety issues facing families, the economy, crime, international instability, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic among others.
The President can’t solve all of the world’s problems. A coalition of international partners coupled with motivated groups of Americans can and will make problem solving easier.
The President, as head of the executive branch of the government of the United States, the chief executive, and commander-in-chief of the U.S. uniformed services, is a very busy man who has many extremely difficult tasks before him.
That leaves room for all the ‘willing’ to support every positive effort the government makes to resolve some of the nation’s problems and open the door of opportunity for others to pitch in and help solve lingering problems.
The 16th President inspires all of us
The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, facing a nation at war, gave the Gettysburg Address on Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, after the pivotal American Civil War battle there.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters, he spoke for about 3 minutes to inspire his audience to stand strong in the face of threats to America’s unity.
Lincoln said, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Lincoln knew it would take more than knowledge of that fact to motivate that crowd of Americans to work together, so he added:
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived (in liberty) and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
That cemetery was full of men who gave their all to cement the fabric of American life in front of the whole world. So, he added:
“But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate – we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, above our poor power to add or detract.”
Lincoln knew there was a lot of work ahead, so he connected with his admirers with the words:
“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”
Being a great orator, Lincoln reached out to the welcoming hearts of his listeners with the following words:
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from those honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
It’s been nearly 161 years since Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg. However, those words still have meaning and a special place in the hearts, minds, and lives of Americans today just as they had in the lives of his listeners at Gettysburg.
Now, the 46th President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, knows we still have “unfinished work” before us. To finish this work will require everyone to be “here dedicated to the great task remaining before us…”
Since the Founding Fathers and many others brought to this continent a “new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” – inspires all Americans to greatness as we work together to heal the nation’s ills, just as Lincoln inspired his listeners to do on November 19, 1863.
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