# Military Intelligence Corps **Entity class:** United States Army branch and regimental corps **Domain:** Military intelligence / personnel / training **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The **Military Intelligence Corps** is the Army's professional regimental corps for military-intelligence soldiers and warrant officers. The Army established the Military Intelligence Branch in 1962 and activated the Corps on **July 1, 1987**, binding tactical and strategic, military and civilian, Active and Reserve intelligence professionals into a single branch identity. It supplies specialties across all-source analysis, SIGINT, HUMINT, counterintelligence, GEOINT, collection management and related technical fields. The Corps should not be collapsed into [[wiki/Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]]. Corps members serve throughout Army organizations, including tactical units, theater commands, cyber formations, headquarters, schools, Reserve and National Guard elements. The Army Reserve's [[wiki/Military Intelligence Readiness Command|Military Intelligence Readiness Command]] alone reports more than 7,300 soldiers in more than 40 units across the continental United States, Hawaii and Europe. Fort Huachuca, Arizona, is the institutional center for Army intelligence training and professional development. Current force design links intelligence and electronic warfare more tightly at corps and division level. Army operational literature describes expeditionary military-intelligence brigades integrating corps and division [[wiki/Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Battalion|intelligence-and-electronic-warfare battalions]] with G-2 staffs. The exact FY27/FY28 activation schedule in the supplied announcement remains a dated force-structure claim to be tracked against subsequent Army authorization and activation records. ## Relationships - **part of:** [[wiki/United States Army Intelligence|United States Army Intelligence]]. - **enterprise:** [[wiki/Army Intelligence and Security Enterprise|AISE]]. - **training center:** [[wiki/Fort Huachuca|Fort Huachuca]]. - **personnel serve within:** [[wiki/Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]], [[wiki/Army Cyber Command|ARCYBER]] and operational Army formations. - **reserve formation:** [[wiki/Military Intelligence Readiness Command|Military Intelligence Readiness Command]]. - **force-design interface:** corps and division intelligence-and-electronic-warfare battalions and G-2 staffs. ## Sources / Provenance - [U.S. Intelligence Community Careers — Army Intelligence and Security Enterprise](https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/usa/about-usa) - [U.S. Army — Military Intelligence Corps activates, July 3, 2012](https://www.army.mil/article/83049/Military_Intelligence_Corps_activates/) - [U.S. Army Mission Command Training Program — FY24 key observations, February 2025](https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/2025/02/24/aea2698e/25-04-946-fy-24-mctp-key-observations-feb-25.pdf) - [U.S. Army Reserve — Military Intelligence Readiness Command, About Us](https://www.usar.army.mil/Commands/Functional/MIRC/About-Us/)