navy personnel

Seagoing military members

Navy personnel are the people who serve in a naval force—officers, enlisted sailors, and support staff.

The term is administrative and collective, used in contexts like recruitment, benefits, and military operations: Navy personnel were deployed to the region.

It encompasses everyone from admirals to seamen.

Related

admirals · instructors · mechanics · shipwrights · electricians · divers · sea duty · shore patrol · chaplains · medics · navigators · commodores · boatswains · cooks · quartermasters · master at arms · executive officers · gunners

Opposites
military branch

navy personnelarmy personnel

Members of ground forces

ground troops · infantry · land forces · army · ground forces

military vs. civilian status

navy personnelcivilians

Non-military population

civilian population · noncombatants · merchant sailors · civilian workforce · merchant marines

Family

navy, personnel, navies, naval, navigate, navigation, navigator, navigable, person

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G