To meet the Army's increased requirement for national and tactical intelligence, an Intelligence and Security Branch was established in the Army effective July 1, 1962, by General Orders No. 38, July 3, 1962. On July 1, 1967, the branch was redesignated as Military Intelligence.
The main punctuation marks are: 1  Full stop or period (.) is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences. 2  Comma (,) is used in many contexts and languages, principally for separating things.
Below is a description of the most common punctuation marks and their proper usage. They are listed in functional order, starting with those that end sentences, followed by those that fall in the middle of sentences, and finally those that fall in the middle of words.