After the Strategic Communications Command became the U.S. Army Communications Command in 1973, it created three major sub-commands: 5th, 6th, and 7th Signal Commands. The latter was responsible for providing communications with Army bases, posts, camps, and stations in the continental United States, as well as providing signals services for the same area.
The 7th Signal Command was constituted and activated July 1, 1975 at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Since then, it has naturally undergone considerable expansion not only to accommodate and exploit new technologies, but also streamline other functions involving information technology. In 1984, for example, the Army’s Visual Information Center (previously designated the Army Photographic Agency) was placed under the purview of the Signal Corps when it was made an Agency of the 7th Signal Command. A year later, the Personnel Information Systems Command was made a subordinate unit of 7th Signal, developing the concept of service centers that would create, process, warehouse and send data.
After a 15-year-plus inactivation from 1993 to 2008, 7th Signal Command was reactivated at Fort Gordon, Georgia (redesignated Fort Eisenhower on 27 October 2023). In its 21s-century incarnation as a Theater Command (one of five worldwide), the unit is responsible for integration, security and defense of Army networks in the Continental United States; providing these services to information-enabled expeditionary operations based in the Continental United States is also known as LandWarNet, and is part of the Army’s responsibility in the Global Information Grid. Tasked with these duties, it is easy to understand why the unit has chosen the Latin motto DIFFICILE EST SUMMISSO ESSE, translated into English as “It’s Hard to Be Humble.”
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