members of the forces swear an oath of allegiance • The UK is an active and regular participant in NATO and other coalition operations • Britain remains one of five recognised nuclear powers, with a total of 225 nuclear warheads Royal Navy • The Royal Navy is a technologically sophisticated naval force, and as of April 2015 consists of 77 commissioned ships • The Surface Fleet consists of amphibious warfare ships, destroyers, frigates, patrol vessels, mine-countermeasure vessels, and other miscellaneous vessels • A submarine service has existed within the Royal Navy for more than 100 years • The Submarine Service's four Vanguard-class nuclear-powered submarines carry Lockheed Martin's Trident II ballistic missiles, forming the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent Royal Marines • The Royal Marines are the Royal Navy's amphibious troops
terms. Of the dictionaries' 400,000 words, they compiled about 10,000 in scrambled order in a classified book. They cross-checked these to eliminate any conflicts with British codenames. Then they assigned blocks of codenames to theater commanders. In theory the codenames bore no relation, either by denotation or connotation, to what they stood for. In the majority of cases this held in practice. FLINTLOCK meant the Allied attack on the Marshall Islands in 1944; AVALANCHE, the amphibious attack on Salerno; ANVIL, later DRAGOON, the Anglo-American landings in the soft underbelly of France. Even relatively small operations were dubbed: the relief of Australians trapped in Tobruk was SUPERCHARGE, the occupation of the Canary Islands was PILGRIM. Some codenames were written in blood: OMAHA, UTAH, GOLD, SWORD, and JUNO, for the Normandy beaches of D-Day. The allied codename selections were sometimes constrained by
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