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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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