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The 3 battalions that make up the 69th are 4-5 Air Defense Artillery, 1-44 Air Defense Artillery and 1-62 Air Defense Artillery. 4-5 ADA was assigned to 69th in 2008 but was initially created back in 1861 fighting in the civil war and was credited with fighting in both world wars as well as a deployment to Korea during the Korean War.
On 24 May 2022 the commission recommended the fort be renamed to Fort Cavazos, named after Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, a native Texan and the US Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] The recommendation report was finalized and submitted to Congress on 1 October 2022, [ 52 ] giving the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin the ...
Fort Sill, Oklahoma Officer training 6–56th ADAR 1st Cavalry Division: Fort Cavazos, Texas AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, Stryker M-SHORAD and "other systems." [36] 1–57th ADAR 52nd ADAB Ansbach, Germany: Stryker M-SHORAD 4–60th ADAR 1st Armored Division: Fort Sill, Oklahoma Stryker M-SHORAD 1–62nd ADAR: 69th ADAB Fort Cavazos, Texas MIM-104 Patriot
Fort Hood, about 70 miles north of Austin, is the largest active-duty U.S. Army post in the U.S. and a top training facility since 1942, according to its website. About 40,000 soldiers work there ...
In 2023, Fort Cavazos had 59,695 direct employees, of which, 38,642 were active-duty military personnel, according to the Texas Comptroller.
Subordinate to the 32nd AADCOM were the 10th, 69th, 94th, and 108th Artillery Groups, making it the largest air defense unit in the US Army. 32nd AADCOM also had a presence in Germany in the 1960s and 70s, basing its headquarters in Kaiserslautern (K-Town) until 1976, and thereafter at Darmstadt. The first Nike Hercules Battery in Germany was ...
4th Sustainment Brigade: Fort Cavazos: 53rd Movement Control Battalion: 7th Transportation Brigade: Fort Eustis: 57th Transportation Battalion: 593rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command: Inactive: 58th Transportation Battalion: 3rd Chemical Brigade: Fort Leonard Wood: 71st Transportation Battalion: U.S. Army Transportation School: Fort Gregg-Adams
Fort Cavazos was previously named after Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood. Cavazos, who died in 2017 at 78, grew up on a cattle ranch in Kingsville, Texas, and was of Mexican American heritage.