Talk:Structure of the United States Armed Forces

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[edit] Delete, Rename, or Improve?

This article should be deleted, or renamed "Structure of the United States Army" — though it is currently redundant since the same information is covered (in more detail) in the Structure section of the United States Army article — or it should be expanded to include the Navy,Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, and perhaps National Guard when it is under the control of State governors.

If kept, this article would be very helpful if it were to include graphic organizational charts, which are not included in the articles on the branch Services to any great extent, though the chart in Organization of the United States Coast Guard is a good start in creating what I would like to see available.

On a related subject, there are "Oganization of the United States [Service Branch]" articles for the Coast Guard and the Marine Corps but not the Army, Navy, and Air Force. That's not as much of a problem, but the lack of uniformity may be reflected in the rather orphaned status of this article. Sorry, but I am not qualified to make edits in these subject areas and help improve things. —Blanchette 20:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I guess I'm voting to improve, since I added the DoD chart at the top. Of course the Commander in Chief belongs above the DoD chart and the chart itself should be rendered in scalable vector graphics format (SVG) for readability and perhaps for collapsing and expanding branches, which can be achieved in SVG [1]. —Blanchette 21:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, this is more of the Structure of the USAF with the command structure of the DOD thrown in at the top. I say keep it, but trim it down to just the DOD and major commands of the branches, with links to the command structures of the different branches. Leobold1 (talk) 07:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Additionally, there is nothing in here about the USMC or USCG. Leobold1 (talk) 07:37, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Update pls?

Can someone update the Northern Command section to reflect the fact that the SE Air Defense Sector is no longer around? I'd do it, but I know absolutely nothing about the stubject.... --Mukk 12:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)