The corps's designation is to assist IDF commanders in dealing with manpower, as well as soldiers' individual problems.

During the war, the hasty manner in which reserve troops were called to service as well as the reconstitution of fighting units, especially critically needed tank crews, posed special problems for the Manpower Directorate, ones which the corps is designed to address.

[citation needed] The idea to create an adjutant corps was raised before the Yom Kippur War, but was not implemented.

[1] The Adjutant Corps transferred from the Human Resources Directorate to the GOC Army Headquarters during the course of 2006.

After a while it was decided to transfer it back to the Human Resources Directorate, and it was moved in June 2008.