[India] The Adjutant-General of the Indian Army is the senior administration officer who reports to the Chief of Army Staff. Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal is the current Adjutant-General of the Indian Army. ==Adjutants-General prior to Independence== Adjutants-General prior to Independence have included: ... An adjutant general is a military chief administrative officer. ==France== In Revolutionary France, the adjudant-général was a senior staff officer, effectively an assistant to a general officer. It was a special position for lieutenants-colonels and colonels in staff service. Starting in 1795, only colonels could be appointed to the position. I...
AG performs a similar function to Chief of Naval Personnel for the Army, as well as providing education services to children of all members of the Services on long-term foreign postings.
The adjutant general is the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general.
[n] - a general's adjutant
noun a general`s adjutant; chief administrative officer
· the Adjutant General,the chief administrative officer of the Army. · an adjutant of a unit having a general staff, usually an officer of the Adjutant General's Corps.