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The Signal Corps is a military
Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
 branch, usually subordinate to a country's army
Army

An army , in the broadest sense, is the land-based armed forces of a nation. It may also include other branches of the military such as an air force....
, responsible for the military communications
Military communications

Military communications, or Signals , is a field of military activities, tactics and equipment dealing with Telecommunications. First of all, military communications are battlefield communications, including intercommunication with a higher Command or country's government....
 (signals).

Many countries have a Signal Corps, whose main function is usually communication
Communication

Communication is commonly defined as "the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs...",, 1: an act or instance of transmitting and 3 a: "a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or beha...
 (in modern times, usually radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, telephone
Telephone

The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
 or now digital communications on the battlefield).








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The Signal Corps is a military
Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
 branch, usually subordinate to a country's army
Army

An army , in the broadest sense, is the land-based armed forces of a nation. It may also include other branches of the military such as an air force....
, responsible for the military communications
Military communications

Military communications, or Signals , is a field of military activities, tactics and equipment dealing with Telecommunications. First of all, military communications are battlefield communications, including intercommunication with a higher Command or country's government....
 (signals).

Many countries have a Signal Corps, whose main function is usually communication
Communication

Communication is commonly defined as "the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs...",, 1: an act or instance of transmitting and 3 a: "a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or beha...
 (in modern times, usually radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, telephone
Telephone

The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
 or now digital communications on the battlefield).

  • Signal Corps (United States Army), founded in 1860 by Major Albert J. Myer
  • Royal Corps of Signals
    Royal Corps of Signals

    The Royal Corps of Signals is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. It is responsible for installing, maintaining and operating all types of telecommunications equipment and Information technology systems, providing command support to commanders and their headquarters, and conducting electronic warfare against enemy communicati...
    , founded in the United Kingdom (under the name Telegraph Battalion Royal Engineers) in 1884
  • Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
    Royal Canadian Corps of Signals

    The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals was a corps#Administrative corps of the Canadian Army. The corps was established in 1903, making it the first independent Signal Corps in the British Empire....
    , formed in 1903 as the Canadian Signalling Corps
  • Royal Australian Corps of Signals
    Royal Australian Corps of Signals

    Australia has the unique distinction of having had the first regularly formed signal unit in the British Empire. The Royal Australian Corps of Signals is one of the 'arms' of the Australian Army....
  • Sri Lanka Signals Corps
    Sri Lanka Signals Corps

    The Sri Lanka Signals Corps a combat support corps of the Sri Lanka Army, responsible for providing military communications and caring out electronic warfare....
  • Telegrafregimentet
    Telegrafregimentet

    Telegrafregimentet is a regiment of the Royal Danish Army. It was established in 1951 with the purpose to train and equip units to support the Danish army with war-time Command, Control and Communications....
    , Royal Danish Signal Regiment
  • Viestirykmentti, Signal Regiment of the Finnish Army
  • Arma delle Trasmissioni, corps of Italian Army
    Italian Army

    The Italian Army is the ground defense force of the Military of Italy. On July 29, 2004 it became a professional all-volunteer force of 112,000 active duty personnel....
     founded in 1953