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The Air Defense Artillery branch descended from Anti-Aircraft Artillery (part of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps until 1950, then part of the Artillery Branch) into a separate branch on 20 June 1968. On 1 December 1968, the ADA branch was authorized to wear modified Artillery insignia, crossed field guns with missile.
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.
The Air Defense Artillery is the branch that specializes in anti-aircraft weapons (such as surface-to-air missiles). In the US Army, these groups are composed of mainly air defense systems such as the PATRIOT Missile System, Terminal High Altitude Air Defense, and the Avenger Air Defense system which fires the FIM-92 Stinger missile.
The 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense artillery regiment of the United States Army, first formed in 1821 as a field artillery unit. [1]Battery A-2nd ADAR THAAD (Battery A, 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) [2] of the 11th Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Brigade successfully intercepted an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile which was ...
Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Antiaircraft Artillery Group was constituted 19 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Group .
Branch: Army: Type: Air Defense Artillery: Garrison/HQ: Kadena Air Force Base [1] Camp Carroll, South Korea [2] Motto(s) " Primus Inter Pares" (First among equals) Mascot(s) Oozlefinch: Engagements: Battle of Fort Sumter War of 1812 Indian Wars Mexican War U.S. Civil War World War II Southwest Asia Operation Iraqi Freedom: Insignia; Distinctive ...
Air Defense Artillery Lineage and Honors for current units; Army Heraldry website (dead link 6 April 2018) Beating their Swords into Plowshares (44th Coast Artillery), The New York Times, 21 September 1919; 44th Coast Artillery in WWI at Ancestry.com; Air Defense Artillery unit websites, accessed 6 April 2018.
31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 32nd Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade; 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 56th Air Defense Artillery Brigade; 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 111th Air Defense ...