Military
- Decoration for Meritorious Services, an honour conferred by the apartheid-era Government of the Republic of South Africa, usually upon those appointed as State President of South Africa
- Defence Medical Services, an umbrella organisation within the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom, which organises all medical, dental and nursing services within the British Armed Forces
- Defence Maritime Services
- Defense Message System, a deployment of secure electronic mail and directory services in the United States Department of Defense
- Destacamentos de Mergulhadores Sapadores, Portuguese combat divers unit
- Destroyer minesweeper, a former type of ship in the United States Navy
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)