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Does cyber corps merit its own service branch?

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FORT MEADE, MD – MARCH 13: U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter delivers remarks to an audience of U.S. Cyber Command troops and National Security Agency employees while visiting the NSA and command headquarters March 13, 2015 in Fort Meade, Maryland. Carter emphasized the importance of military cyber operations by making this his first visit with soliders, sailors, airmen and Marines inside the United States since becoming defense secretary in February 2015. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Defense Secretary Ash Carter raised eyebrows during his recent visit to the U.S. Cyber Command headquarters in Maryland when he suggested that the cyber corps may ultimately become its own service branch.

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Andrew Tilghman is the executive editor for Military Times. He is a former Military Times Pentagon reporter and served as a Middle East correspondent for the Stars and Stripes. Before covering the military, he worked as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle in Texas, the Albany Times Union in New York and The Associated Press in Milwaukee.