U.S. Army Signal Corps, 150 Years Old and Still Breaking New Ground

摘要

Congress created the U.S. Army Signal Corps on June 21, 1860, assigning Albert James Myer as the first and only Signal Officer. Myer was an Army doctor and the first to come up with the idea of a separate, trained, professional military signal service. Throughout its history, the Signal Corps had initial responsibility for a number of functions and new technologies that are now being managed by other organizations, including military intelligence, weather forecasting, and aviation.