The 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade is an

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of the

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. Subordinate units include: * 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment DUI

4th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery. * 44ADARegtDUI

1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery * 62 ADA Bde DUI

1st Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Artillery

History

Organized 17 May 1918 in the Regular Army at

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, Washington as the 69th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) Demobilized 5 March 1919 at

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, Virginia Reconstituted 16 October 1936 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with the 69th Coast Artillery (constituted 22 January 1926 in the Regular Army and activated 1 February 1930 at

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, Maryland), and consolidated unit designated as the 69th Coast Artillery The regiment was broken up on 10 September 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Battery as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Antiaircraft Artillery Group (1st Battalion as the 69th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion; 2d Battalion as the 529th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion; 3d Battalion as the 249th Antiaircraft Artillery Searchlight Battalion – hereafter separate lineages) Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Antiaircraft Artillery Group, inactivated 5 June 1948 on Saipan Activated 1 July 1955 in Germany Inactivated 1 November 1957 in Germany Redesignated 1 April 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Artillery Group, and activated in Germany. HHB at Emery Barracks, Würzburg, Germany. Redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Air Defense Artillery Group Reorganized and redesignated 16 July 1983 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade Brigade personnel deployed to Israel during Operation Desert Fox in 1998

References

* http://www.hood.army.mil/69ada/history_files/Lineage%20and%20Insignia.pdf * https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/ada/0069adabde.htm

External links

* http://www.hood.army.mil/69ADA/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20120614104048/http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Heraldry/ArmyDUISSICOA/ArmyHeraldryUnit.aspx?u=2863 * http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacunithistories/69th_Artillery.html 069 Military units and formations established in 2008 {{US-Army-stub

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