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  2. Military communications - Wikipedia

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    The Roman system of military communication (cursus publicus or cursus vehicularis) is an early example of this. Later, the terms signals and signaller became words referring to a highly-distinct military occupation dealing with general communications methods (similar to those in civil use) rather than with weapons .

  3. Interpersonal communication - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Interpersonal communication is often defined as communication that takes place between people who are interdependent and have some knowledge of each other: for example, communication between a son and his father, an employer and an employee, two sisters, a teacher and a student, two lovers, two friends, and so on.

  4. U.S. Army hand and arm signals - Wikipedia

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    Hand and arm signals for United States Army use were first established in Field Manual 21-60. They were amended in Training Circular 3-21.60. [1] Hand and Arm signals are one of the most common forms of communication used by United States Army soldiers or group of soldiers when a radio silence is in effect or if the soldiers need to remain ...

  5. United States Army Signal Corps - Wikipedia

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    While serving as a medical officer in Texas in 1856, Albert James Myer proposed that the Army use his visual communications system, called aerial telegraphy (or "wig-wag"). When the Army adopted his system on 21 June 1860, the Signal Corps was born with Myer as the first and only Signal Officer. [3] Click photo to enlarge for history of the wigwag.

  6. STARCOM (communications system) - Wikipedia

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    STARCOM, or the Strategic Army Communication System, was a communications network built and operated by the United States Army Signal Corps in the 1950s and 1960s. An early large-scale automated data network, the system provided central control of defense communications and data services within the continental United States and overseas.

  7. Tactical communications - Wikipedia

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    Lithuanian signal corps soldiers, 1930. Tactical communications are military communications in which information of any kind, especially orders and military intelligence, are conveyed from one command, person, or place to another upon a battlefield, particularly during the conduct of combat.

  8. Human intelligence (intelligence gathering) - Wikipedia

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    Human intelligence (HUMINT, pronounced / ˈ h j uː m ɪ n t / HEW-mint) is intelligence-gathering by means of human sources and interpersonal communication. It is distinct from more technical intelligence-gathering disciplines, such as signals intelligence (SIGINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), and measurement and signature intelligence ...

  9. Military call sign - Wikipedia

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    Instead, letter designations are randomly assigned using BATCO sheets, and appear on CEIs (communication electronic instructions), and change along with the BATCO codes every 24 hours. This, together with frequency changes and voice procedure aimed at making every unit sound the same, protects the military against simple traffic analysis and ...