Signal Corps
Branch Type: Combat Support
Birthday: The Signal Corps was authorized
as a separate branch of the Army by act of Congress on March
3, 1863. However, the Signal Corps dates its existence from
June 21, 1860, when Congress authorized the appointment of
one signal officer in the Army, and a War Department order
carried the following assignment: "Signal Department--Assistant
Surgeon Albert J. Myer to be Signal Officer, with the rank
of Major, June 27, 1860, to fill an original vacancy."
Mission Statement: The mission of the Signal
Corps is to provide and manage communications and information
systems support for the command and control of combined arms
forces. Signal support includes Network Operations (information
assurance, information dissemination management, and network
management) and management of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Signal support encompasses all aspects of designing, installing,
maintaining, and managing information networks to include
communications links, computers, and other components of local
and wide area networks. Signal forces plan, install, operate,
and maintain voice and data communications networks that employ
single and multi-channel satellite, tropospheric scatter,
terrestrial microwave, switching, messaging, video-teleconferencing,
visual information, and other related systems. They integrate
tactical, strategic and sustaining base communications, information
processing and management systems into a seamless global information
network that supports knowledge dominance for Army, joint
and coalition operations.
Career Management Fields: Visual Information(25),
Signals (Communications):31, Information Systems(74)
AIT Location: AFAIK Fort Gordon, Georgia
Additional Resources: Signal Corps Units
Alphanumeric changes
All three Signal Corps career management fields will merge
into a single CMF in fiscal year 2005. The numeric designator
for the merged CMF will be 25; all military occupational specialties
will have a change to their alphanumeric code except for the
ones in the current Visual Information CMF.
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