The Army News Service is a news publication of the

United States Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...

(published by their

Special Services Division Special Services was the entertainment branch of the American military. The unit was created on 22 July 1940 by the War Department as part of the Army Service Forces. Special Services not only used its own specially trained and talented troops b ...

) designed as an "objective digest of United States press association and newspaper reports". The material was in turn supplied to the

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 ...

for radio transmission. Created in 1943, its target audience is the large number of people associated with the US Army, including soldiers, retired soldiers, and contractors.

Coverage

The Army News Service publications focus on covering Army wide strategic communications initiatives at

Department of the Army The United States Department of the Army (DA) is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the U.S. The Department of the Army is the federal government agency within which the United States Army (U.S.) is org ...

headquarters. Reporters cover topics such as, new Army policy, pay and benefits, new equipment and new programs emphasized by Army leadership. The service relies on submissions from service members in the field for topics such as major military exercises and operations, pilot programs and new military equipment arriving in the field.

References

Mass media of the military of the United States Newspapers published in Washington, D.C. {{US-mil-stub