Corps (disambiguation)

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A corps is a large military unit usually composed of two or more divisions.

Corps may also refer to:

Places

  • Corps, Isère, a commune in the department of Isère in France
  • Corps de Garde, a mountain in the Moka Range in Mauritius
  • Corps de Garde, a MONKE


Military

  • Air Training Corps, UK or New Zealand Air Cadets
  • Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers, a military force in Monaco composed mainly of officers from French military or fire services
  • United States Marine Corps, a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea

Civic organizations

  • AmeriCorps, a program of the U.S. federal government engaging adults in intensive community service
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States
  • Diplomatic corps, the collective body of foreign diplomats accredited to a particular country or body
  • Job Corps, a program of the United States Department of Labor that offers education and vocational training
  • Mercy Corps, a global aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock
  • National Association of Service and Conservation Corps (NASCC), an association of Service and Conservation Corps in the United States
  • Peace Corps, a volunteer program run by the United States government
  • Senior Corps, a United States government agency to provide aid to senior citizens
  • Youth Conservation Corps, a summer work youth program in U.S. federally managed lands

Other uses

  • Ambulance corps, an emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care* Corps (church), a place of worship in The Salvation Army
  • CORPS (Complete Omniversal Role Playing System), a generic role-playing game system
  • Corps de ballet, the group of dancers who are not soloists
  • Drum and bugle corps (classic), musical ensembles that descended from military bugle and drum units returning from World War I and succeeding wars
  • Drum and bugle corps (modern), a musical marching unit
  • German Student Corps, Germany's traditional university corporations or fraternities
  • Green Lantern Corps, a fictional intergalactic military/police force appearing in comics published by DC Comics
  • Press corps, a group of reporters covering a specific entity or event
  • An abbreviation of Corporation

See also

  • Corpse, a dead human body
  • The Corps (disambiguation)
  • Core (disambiguation)
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