The American Forces Information Service (AFIS) was a

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-providing news service that supplied information about the

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History

In 1952 the

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established the Office of Armed Forces Information and Education. In 1977 AFIS was established. AFIS was originally responsible for the Armed Forces Information Program as well as the

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. Department of Defense Directive 5105.74Article title
disestablished AFIS on October 1, 2008, and created the

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. The DMA provides news stories about military operations worldwide and includes all the military service media centers, '' Stars and Stripes'' newspapers as well as the American Forces Radio and Television Service and its

American Forces Network The American Forces Network (AFN) is a government television and radio broadcast service the U.S. military provides to those stationed or assigned overseas. Headquartered at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, AFN's broadcast operations, which i ...

(AFN).

References

*John Hickman. "Finding the Words: A Content Analysis of American Forces Information Service Reporting on the War in Afghanistan", ''South Asian Journal of Socio-Political Studies''. Vol. 7, No. 1 (July-Dec. 2006), pp. 6–8, 14.

External links

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