AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY  (ADA)
PROTUAVIONSKA ARTILJERIJA

AND OTHER ARTILLERY UNITS  I DRUGE ARTILJERIJSKE JEDINICE

 
 
 
 
 
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      The Air Defense Artillery branch of the US Army specializes in anti-aircraft weapons (such as surface to air missiles). The Air Defense Artillery branch descended from Anti-Aircraft Artillery  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. According to the Army's Field Manual 44-100, the mission of Air Defense Artillery is "to protect the force and selected geopolitical assets from aerial attack, missile attack, and surveillance."

     

      Reorganizacija Nacionalne garde zahvatila je dio jedinica. Neke jedinice su preimenovane ili deaktivirane. Nekima su podređene jedinice preraspoređene u druge komande.

      Several units have been affected by Army National Guard reorganizations. Some have been renamed or inactivated. Some have had subordinate units reallocated to other commands.

     

AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY COMMAND  KOMANDA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
   
     

11th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   11. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
     

      The 11th Air Defense Artillery "Imperial" Brigade, the largest air defense organization in the world is located at Fort Bliss, Texas, the home of Air Defense Artillery. Today, the brigade consists of a Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, two Patriot missile battalions (3-43 ADA and 5-52 ADA) and the 286th Signal Company.

     

31th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   31. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
 
     
     

32nd AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   32. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
 
     

35th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   35. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
   
     
     

38th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   38. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
 
     

94th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   94. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
   
     
     

107th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   107. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
   
     
     

108th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   108. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
   
     

      The 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade mission is to train and maintain a strategic crisis response air defense artillery brigade capable of deploying worldwide, on short notice, to provide air defense force protection from airborne threats and tactical ballistic missiles, as well as allow freedom of maneuver for XVIII Airborne Corps operations. Unit served in Vietnam till 22.11.1971. when was inactivated (in Fort Lewis, Washington). The 3-4th ADA is now organized as an "Air and Missile Defense" battalion. Additionally, the brigade lost the 2-43rd ADA to the 11th ADA Brigade.

     
164th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE   164. BRIGADA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE
 
   
     

OTHER ARTILLERY UNITS   OSTALE ARTILJERIJSKE JEDINICE

 

AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY SCHOOL   ŠKOLA PROTUAVIONSKE ARTILJERIJE

 
   
     
      On a disc with a 1/8 inch (.32cm) yellow border, overall diameter 2 1/2 inches (6.35cm), two yellow lightning bolts throughout issuing diagonally from base to upper dexter and sinister, and dividing the disc into three sections, the outer sections red and the center section blue. On the blue section a yellow perpendicular guided missile. Scarlet is the traditional Artillery color. Blue denotes the sky into which antiaircraft artillery missiles are fired. The stylized gold lightning symbolizes the electronic emanations used in electronic warfare and for missile guidance. The shoulder sleeve insignia was originally approved for the Antiaircraft Artillery and Guided Missile School on 16 Aug 1956 and redesignated for the Antiaircraft Artillery and Guided Missile Center on 29 Apr 1957.
     
56th ARTILLERY BRIGADE (PERSHING ROCKETS)

56. ARTILJERIJSKA BRIGADA (PERSHING RAKETE)

 
 
 
     
     

DISTINCTIVE UNIT INSIGNIAS   POSEBNE OZNAKE JEDINICA

 
56th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY 60th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY 65th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY
"Night hides not" "Coelis imperamus"  
     
   
113rd ADA    
"Dum Spiramus Tuebimur"    
     
     
J.L. Pete Morgan and Ted A. Thurman, American military patch guide, 1997

Cl. Frank C. Foster, Complete guide to the United States Army Medals, Badges and Insignia World War II to present,  2004

     
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