> The Wikipedia pages on the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and British Army >> use "military service" >> > sometimes too, and mention the overall "British Armed Services", "Her >> Majesty's Naval Service", etc. >> > > The same goes for the dialect spoken by that page's author. > > However, whilst only the military services in the UK are armed forces, > police in > the US are generally armed. So there would be confusion if we used UK > terminology here. >
There is no confusion in the US, the term "armed forces" specifically means the military, and would never ever be confused with the local police, or your armed neighbor Billy Bob.
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