 Fighting units continued to obtain integral medical support from their own uniformed personnel.Hospitals, medical headquarters, training schools and equipment depots and research facilities were staffed by CFMS members of all three services, resulting in a larger, more capable and more flexible organization (and more economical).When the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force were merged in 1968 to form the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps was deactivated in the Regular Force, and its personnel absorbed by the re-organized Canadian Forces Medical Service, which became a personnel branch of the new Canadian Forces.