Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 May 2009
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
- Constituted in July 1923 in the Organized Reserves as the 514th Coast Artillery
- Organized in October 1923 with Headquarters at Schenectady, New York
- Inactivated 1 January 1938 at Schenectady, New York; concurrently withdrawn from the Organized Reserves and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 1 March 1942 at Camp Davis, North Carolina
- Regiment broken up 20 January 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battery as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 108th Coast Artillery Group
- (1st Battalion as the 217th Coast Artillery Battalion; 2d Battalion as the 639th Coast Artillery Battalion; 3d Battalion as the 363d Coast Artillery Searchlight Battalion - hereafter separate lineages)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 108th Coast Artillery Group, reorganized and redesignated 26 May 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 108th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
- Inactivated 14 December 1945 in Germany
- Activated 25 September 1956 at Los Angeles, California
- Redesignated 20 March 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 108th Artillery Group
- Inactivated 26 August 1960 at Fort MacArthur, California
- Activated 1 May 1967 at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Inactivated 22 November 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Redesignated 21 November 1974 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 108th Air Defense Artillery Group, and activated in Germany
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 July 1983 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Central Europe
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive Phase IV
- Counteroffensive Phase V
- Counteroffensive Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive Phase VII
- Consolidation I
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History