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.
This handout explains the most common uses of three kinds of punctuation: semi-colons (;), colons (:), and dashes (â). After reading the handout, you will be better able to decide when to use these forms of punctuation in your own writing. Semi-colons