 the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, and the Coast Guard and everything else. The United States Congress enacts the armed forces policies. Now, this started in 1789 after, again, the presidency and the election of George Washington. Now, the Army and the Navy and the Air Force and the Marines were pretty much already at the Air Force, I should say the Coast Guard, starting to work on things after that period of time. The Army Air Corps in the 1900s would come into play, of course, and then the Air Force.