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The '''American Forces Information Service''' ('''AFIS''') was a [[United States Department of Defense]]-providing news service that supplied information about the [[U.S. military]].

==History==

In 1952 the [[Office of the Secretary of Defense]] established the Office of Armed Forces Information and Education.<ref name="DoDReorg1987_0011">{{cite report | date = 1987-08-31 | title = Army Study of Defense Agencies and DoD Field Activities | publisher = [[United States Department of the Army|Department of the Army Headquarters]] | chapter = The Agencies and Activities Involved | page = 11 | volume = 1 | hdl = 2027/uiug.30112101041090?urlappend=%3Bseq=27 | quote = In 1952, the first of the current Defense Agencies, the National Security Agency (NSA), was established by Presidential directive and placed under the Secretary's direction. In 1952 also, an Office of Armed Forces Information and Education (precursor of what eventually would become the American Forces Information Service field activity) was established in OSD.}}</ref> In 1977 AFIS was established.<ref name="DoDReorg1987_0002">{{cite report | date = 1987-08-31 | title = Army Study of Defense Agencies and DoD Field Activities | publisher = [[United States Department of the Army|Department of the Army Headquarters]] | chapter = Introduction | page = 2 | volume = 1 | hdl = 2027/uiug.30112101041090?urlappend=%3Bseq=18 | quote = CURRENT DEFENSE AGENCIES AND DOD FIELD ACTIVITIES IN ORDER OF ESTABLISHMENT... FIELD ACTIVITIES... American Forces Information Services (AFIS) 1977}}</ref> AFIS was originally responsible for the Armed Forces Information Program as well as the [[Armed Forces Radio and Television Service]].<ref name="DoDReorg1987_0015">{{cite report | date = 1987-08-31 | title = Army Study of Defense Agencies and DoD Field Activities | publisher = [[United States Department of the Army|Department of the Army Headquarters]] | chapter = The Agencies and Activities Involved | page = 15 | volume = 1 | hdl = 2027/uiug.30112101041090?urlappend=%3Bseq=31 | quote = AFIS is responsible for the DOD Armed Forces Information Program and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, including the dissemination of internal information;}}</ref>

Department of Defense Directive 5105.74<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 18, 2007 |title=Department of Defense Directive Number 5105.74 |url=http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/510574p.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704175836/http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/510574p.pdf |archive-date=July 4, 2009 |website=Defense Technical Information Center |page=2}}</ref> disestablished AFIS on October 1, 2008, and created the '''[[Defense Media Activity]]'''.  The DMA provides news stories about military operations worldwide and includes all the military service media centers, ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]'' newspapers as well as the American Forces Radio and Television Service and its [[American Forces Network]] (AFN).

==References==
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*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.&nbsp;6–8, 14.

==External links==
{{Commons category|American Forces Information Service}}
*[http://www.defenselink.mil/home/news_products.html AFIS]

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