United States Army Signal Corps

Although researchers and explorers would continue trying to reach ever farther north, now they would be doing it for science and not glory.

And in the United States, a captain in the Army Signal Corps named Henry Howgate soon took up the cause for this new approach to Arctic exploration.

Howgate was obsessed with the Arctic.

Like many others at the time, he believed a prevailing theory that if explorers could get across the frozen Arctic Ocean and reach the North Pole, they would find a land rich in flora and fauna, and perhaps even an undiscovered tribe of humans.

Fortunately, Greeley had left contingency plans, but even those would be hard to execute.

Imagine it's late August 1882.

You're a member of the Army Signal Corps and you're standing on the rocky, frozen shore of Cape Sabine on Ellesmere Island, 250 miles south of your original destination of Lady Franklin Bay.

But the sea ice is too thick for you to continue any farther, so you and your crew have come to this agreed-upon spot to drop off a cache containing rations of food and supplies for Lieutenant Dolphus Greeley and his men.

And it feels like a monster mash around election time.

But did you know that Bobby Boris Pickett, after high school, spent three years in Korea with the U.S. Army Signal Corps? Yep.

After he demobbed, he headed to Hollywood where he wanted to make a break in movies and stand up comedy.

And his first nightclub act included a horror film routine.

From his I.D. bracelet, it was identified as Harold Kelly, 1st Lieutenant Senior Corps, U.S. Army.

The other victim was Major Richard Farmer, Signal Corps.

I initialed the slugs for evidence, and then we drove back to the crime lab and dropped them off.

The next morning, before they were transferred to a military hospital for further treatment, we talked with Lieutenant Kelly and Major Farmer and filled out a robbery report and one for a crime against persons.

She was always trying to better herself.

Meanwhile, Julius worked as a civilian for the United States Signal Corps from 1940 to 1945.

You know where he worked? No.

Do you know where Fort Monmouth is? Yes.

Now, back then, a Corps of Engineers was the the branch in which the higher ranking cadets had a chance to fill, out of 504 graduates, we had 55 slots for Corps of Engineers.

Okay, so the number one man in the class took a certain, or Signal Corps was the other, number one man in the class had first choice, blah, blah, blah, down through the line.

So by the time they got to me, I chose Corps of Engineers and the 109th man in my class of 504 completed the 55 slots for Corps of Engineers.

So it was the first branch to go out.

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The Influence of Submarine Cables Upon Military and Naval Supremacy by George O. Squire, Captain, Signal Corps, U.S. Army.

The accidental non-delivery of two cable messages from the Minister of Marine, Bermejo, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish Squadron, Severa, at Martinique, undoubtedly largely changed the whole history of the Spanish-American War.

One of these telegrams informed him of coal supply near at hand.

All the principal nations are studying this subject in its various aspects, and already a distinct cable policy is entering into the politics of the principal countries possessing colonies and seeking for commercial, military, and naval supremacy.

In this connection, it may be of interest to note briefly what has been the telegraph policy of the United States in dealing with the territory of our new possessions.

In Cuba and Puerto Rico, and in the Philippine archipelago, every effort has been made by the Signal Corps of the Army to cover the islands with a network of wires so complete and reliable that intercommunication is ensured at all times.

In the pacification of Cuba in Puerto Rico, in the suppression of the Philippine uprising, it is believed that there has been no more potent agent than the military telegraph.

Alaskan Airways put up every aircraft it had.

The Army Signal Corps got involved.

American pilots and mechanics worked in shifts, trying to cover the enormous and indistinguishable territory between Nome and the Siberian coast.

Now here's where it gets interesting, and by interesting I mean remarkable in a way that doesn't fit the politics of the era.