United States Army

The United States Army is the army of the United States, or the American army, the part of the u.s. armed forces that are primarily responsible for warfare on land.

At the end of the tax year 2004 had the u.s. military 485.500 soldiers on active duty, including 71,400 women. Further there were 591,000 reserve soldiers (325,000 in theArmy National Guard and United States Army Reserve in the 246 thousand).

The forerunner of the u.s. Army, the Continental Army was created on 14 June 1775, before the Declaration of independence, to fight in the American Revolutionary War.The Continental Congress turned on the current United States Army after the end of the war of independence on 3 June 1784 as a replacement of the Continental Army.