Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 July 2013
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery,
10th Army Air and Missile
Defense Command
- Constituted 1 July 1924 in the Regular Army as the 10th Coast Artillery and organized from existing companies with Headquarters at Fort Adams, Rhode Island
- Inactivated 10 April 1944 at Camp Forrest, Tennessee
- Disbanded 31 May 1944
- Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; regiment concurrently broken up and its elements underwent changes as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battery consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Antiaircraft Artillery Group (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
- (1st Battalion consolidated with the 197th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion and consolidated unit redesignated as the 10th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion; 2d Battalion consolidated with the 29th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion and consolidated unit designated as the 29th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion – hereafter separate lineages)
- Redesignated 20 March 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Artillery Group
- Inactivated 25 January 1959 in Korea
- Activated 1 July 1961 in Germany
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Air Defense Artillery Group
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 July 1983 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
- Inactivated 15 July 1992 in Germany
- Redesignated 4 October 2011 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command
- Activated 17 October 2011 in Germany
- ANNEX
- Constituted 3 October 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Group
- Activated 5 October 1942 at Orlando, Florida
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 June 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
- Inactivated 20 January 1946 in the Philippines
- Allotted 15 January 1949 to the Regular Army and activated at Fort Bliss, Texas
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- New Guinea
- Bismarck Archipelago
- Leyte
- Luzon
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
DECORATIONS
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF KOREA
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History
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