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the executive branch
The Executive Branch is the one that is over the Armed Forces. The Executive Branch consists of the President and Vice President.
Executive branch, the commander in chief is the president who is in this branch.
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The Executive Branch, or in other words, the president.
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The armed forces of the U.S. are in the Defense Department, which is part of the executive branch of the federal (national) government.
The US Armed Forces are coprised of five separate branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. None of the branches commands the Armed Forces, that job is reserved for the President of the United States, as the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces.
The Armed Forces is an element of the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense is a department of the Executive Branch of government. The President of the United States is the head of the Executive Branch, and Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces.
Because the Executive Branch has the "inherent" Constitutional power to enter into a contract.
The whole if the armed forces are not commanded by a single branch of it.
The US President is the Commander and Chief of all US military forces.