Branch Joint service Anniversaries 1 October 2000 | ||
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Active 1 October 2000 – present Size 19,752 personnel (16 December 2016) | ||
The Joint Medical Service (German: Zentraler Sanitätsdienst der Bundeswehr) is a part of the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany, but explicitly no new branch of arms. Medical personnel of all three branches (Army, Navy and Air Force) were assigned to a centralized authority which was installed to concentrate their capabilities. However these troops remain members of their original branch of arms. Only very specialized medical units (such as medical care for divers and aircraft crews) are not a part of the Joint Medical Service.
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Joint Medical Service (Germany) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA