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Definition

• In the US Army, the term Special Branches covers a grouping of branches and officers primarily concerned with providing combat service support and/or administration to the Army as a whole but managed separately from combat service support branches. Special branches include:

1. Army Medical Department
2. Chaplains' Corps
3. Judge Advocate General's Corps

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See also:

• combat service support, service.