Pakistan Army Corps of Service

The Pakistan Army Corps of Service is a military administrative and combat service support branch of the Pakistan Army.^[1][2][3]

ASC Corp Pakistan
Badge of the Pakistan Army.
Active	1947; 77 years ago (1947)
Country	Pakistan
Branch	Pakistan Army
Type	Combat service support
Role	Administrative and staffing oversight.
Size	10 Battalions
HQ/Garrison	Service Center in Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Nickname(s)	ASC
Motto(s)	Oye Hoye
Colors Identification	Blue, White
Anniversaries	1947
Equipment	Nil
Engagements	Nil
Decorations	Military Decorations of Pakistan military
Battle honours	Nil
Website	Facebook– Army Service Corps
Commanders
Director-General	Maj-Gen. Usman Haque
Insignia
War Flag

Pakistan Army's ASC trucks moving personnel in 1971.

Reporting from its headquarter in Nowshera Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, the service corps is one of the important military logistics branch in the Pakistani military, and is commanded by its director-general, Maj-Gen. Usman Haq as of 2023.Unlike other arms like infantry , armour , arty , eme , engineers and other supporting arms , ASC comes with branches which is responsible for feeding their troops ^[4]

Overview

The Army Service Corps is one of the largest military administrative corps that was commissioned into the Pakistan Army from the partition of the former British Indian Army's Service Corps in November 1947.^[2] Originally, the service corps was headquartered in Chaklala cantonment with Colonel Abdullah Jan as its commandant until 1950.^{: 1033 [5]} The service corps is Pakistan army's most senior administrative corps with its mission for management of transportation and military logistics since 1947.^{[6]: 83 [7]: 55 [8]}

From 1947 till 1957, the British Army provided the crucial training support and education on military logistics its officers who were commissioned in the Army Service Corps.^{: 518 [9][10]}

Since 1966, the Army Service Corps is now stationed in Nowshera along with its Army Service College that provides the necessary training and education and training for the personnel to be commissioned in the corps of service.^[2]

The Army Service Corps is commanded by its director-general who is usually at two-star rank, major-general, working directly under the Chief of the General Staff, reporting from its headquarters in Nowshera.^[4][6]

References

1. "ASC Documentry [sic]". YouTube. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
2. "Army Service Corps". Retrieved 17 December 2023.
3. "Army Service Corps". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
4. "COAS visits Army Service Corps Centre in Nowshera". Dunya News. Dünya News channel. 14 February 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
5. Dept, Great Britain Army (1952). The Army List. H.M. Stationery Office. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
6. Alam, Dr Shah (1 July 2012). Pakistan Army: Modernisation, Arms Procurement and Capacity Building. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. ISBN 978-93-81411-79-7. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
7. Cheema, Pervaiz I.; Riemer, Manuel (22 August 1990). Pakistan's Defence Policy 1947-58. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-20942-2. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
8. Cheema, Pervaiz Iqbal (2002). The Armed Forces of Pakistan. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1633-5. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
9. The Story of the Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Corps of Transport, 1945-1982. L. Cooper. 1984. ISBN 978-0-436-50606-2. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
10. "Army Service Corps". YouTube. Retrieved 17 December 2023.

External links

Media galleries

• "PAKISTAN ARMY | ARMY SERVICES CROPS | RECRUIT PASSING OUT PRADE |". YouTube. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
• "ASC Documentry". YouTube. Retrieved 17 December 2023.