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Personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank

An aide de camp (/UK/,/eɪ//d//d//ə/'/k//ɒ̃/, /us// /'/k//ae//m//p/;) is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state. An aide de camp may participate at ceremonial functions, and the first aide de camp is typically the foremost personal aide. This is not to be confused with an adjutant, who is the senior administrator of a military unit. The badge of office for an aide de camp is usually the aiguillette, a braided cord in gold or other colours, worn on the shoulder of a uniform. Whether it is worn on the left or the right shoulder is dictated by protocol. In some countries, aide de camp is considered to be a title of honour, which confers the post nominal letters ADC, A. D. C.

The title of honorary aide de camp to the king can be granted by the royal court for services rendered. Notable people include Major General Baron Édouard Empain, Count Charles John d'Oultremont, and Lieutenant General Baron Albert du Roy de Blicquy.

In addition, a fixed number of senior officers may be appointed as aides de camp to the monarch, an appointment which entitles the holder to the post nominal letters "ADC". Most of these are serving army, navy, and air force officers, usually of colonel or brigadier rank or equivalent. They are seldom called upon individually to perform specific duties; collectively, they walked in procession at every coronation and state funeral of a monarch in the 20th century. In 1991 the aides de camp to the queen numbered sixty: Principal aides de camp, representing the three services, take part along with other members of the Royal Household in the State Processions at State Openings of Parliament, at coronations and at state funerals; and they are occasionally called upon individually to represent the monarch at memorial services and on other occasions. Otherwise, an officer would cease to wear the accoutrements after his or her appointment as aide de camp is relinquished (with the exception that former aides de camp to the sovereign appointed before 1988 may also continue to wear the royal cypher).

In Indonesia, an aide de camp, known as an ajudan presiden or "president's adjutant" to the president and vice president of Indonesia is provided by officers from the Indonesian National Armed Forces, with the rank of colonel, and/or the Indonesian National Police, with the rank of Police Chief Commissioner. They are tasked with providing staff support and daily administrative services to the president and vice president as well as to their spouses, either in their official capacities or for personal affairs. They are recognized by their golden aiguillettes. Other VIPs in Indonesia, such as ministers and other important government officials, are also provided ADCs who are usually junior ranking officers, such as lieutenants in the military, or police inspectors from the police, who are generally newly graduated from the military and/or police academies. ADCs for regional officials, such as governors and Mayors, known as Regents, are provided ADCs from new graduates of the Institute of Domestic Governance (IPDN).

The president of Ireland, as supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces, is served by aides de camp who assist with day to day presidential duties, accompany the president on official public engagements in Ireland and on state visits abroad, and represent the president at funerals and on state occasions. There is an ADC on duty 24/7 at Áras an Uachtaráin. Michael Collins was aide de camp to Joseph Plunkett during the Easter Rising in 1916.

From 1896 until the end of World War II, the emperors of Japan had army and naval aides de camp.

The president, as commander in chief of the Portuguese armed forces, is served by three aides de camp, one from the Portuguese Army, one from the Portuguese Navy and one from the Portuguese Air Force. These aides de camp integrate the Presidential Military Household. Portuguese aides de camp never stay for more than one presidential term, which is five years in duration, after which the return to their respective branches.

Military officers are assigned as aides to the secretary of the Army, secretary of Defense, vice president, and president of the United States. For government officials with more than one aide, the senior ranking aide usually coordinates the activities of the other aides as well as personal attendants such as drivers or orderlies. and is entitled to an aide. U. S. Army aides de camp wear a special device in place of the branch of service insignia, representing their affiliation with infantry, artillery, or quartermaster, that they would otherwise wear on the lapels of their service uniform. The rank of the general officer being served is indicated on the device worn by the aide de camp, as illustrated below. Although the chief of staff of the Army and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are O 10 positions, their aides de camp wear devices specific to those offices, rather than the normal four star aide device. Also, an aide de camp wears a special aiguillette on the shoulder of his or her dress uniform. In the U. S. Navy, the aide de camp to an admiral is also known as a "flag aide" (command ashore) or "flag lieutenant" (command afloat).