American Forces Information Service
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The American Forces Information Service (AFIS) was a United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
-providing news service that supplied information about the U.S. military. Department of Defense Directive 5105.74 http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/510574p.pdf disestablished AFIS on October 1, 2008 and created the Defense Media Activity
Defense Media Activity
The Defense Media Activity falls under the Department of Defense and tries to modernize DoD media operations by consolidating military service and DoD media components into a single, integrated and transformed organization.-Divisions:...
. The DMA provides news stories about military operations worldwide and includes all the military service Media Centers, Stars and Stripes newspapers as well as the American Forces Radio and Television Service and its American Forces Network (AFN).