Signal corps

The Signal Corps ( Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and army: News Force; Swiss Army Signal Troops ) is in most armed forces a separate branch of service, special force or a service partition.

Order

The Signal Corps is mandated messaging systems produce in time, they maintain uninterrupted and fast, secure and confidential information and data transmission to ensure the uninterrupted troop leadership within and between organizations to their parent major organizations and institutions of all parts of the Armed Forces, Military Branches, special forces and services. Within regiments and units are adopting the troops Fernmelder belong to their respective branch of service. Allen associations is a Truppenfernmeldezug to each subordinate. Basically it applies to telecommunications connections of all kinds, which they are built from top to bottom, and keeps the overarching guidance to the subordinate units and builds.

History

Modern Signal Corps has its roots among others in the Signal Corps of the First World War and the subsequent signal corps of the Wehrmacht and Waffen -SS. At their precursors include the various systems of optical telegraphy and messaging with pigeons.

Today Fernmelder, communication units, telecommunication associations or units are usually part of the armies, armed forces, armed forces and military divisions. In Bundeswehr and NATO, the Signal Corps is part of the guide base area 6

Bundeswehr

In the army and the armed forces of the Bundeswehr base the Fernmelder form their own branch of service, one of the use and management support troops.