The 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade is an air defense artillery

Air Defense Artillery

The Air Defense Artillery branch descended from the Anti-Aircraft Artillery into a separate branch on 20 June 1968...

 brigade

Brigade

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 of the United States Army

United States Army

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Subordinate units include: 4–5 ADA (AMD) and 1–44 ADA (AMD) (Patriot).

History

Organized 17 May 1918 in the Regular Army at Fort Worden

Fort Worden

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, Washington as the 69th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)

Demobilized 5 March 1919 at Camp Eustis, 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 Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen Proving Ground is a United States Army facility located near Aberdeen, Maryland, . Part of the facility is a census-designated place , which had a population of 3,116 at the 2000 census.- History :...

, Maryland), and consolidated unit designated as the 69th Coast Artillery

Regiment broken up 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

See also

• Field Artillery Branch (United States)
• U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps
  U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps
  The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps was a Corps level organization responsible for coastal and harbor defense of the United States between 1901 and 1950.-History:...
  
  
• Coats of arms of U.S. Artillery Regiments
  Coats of arms of U.S. Artillery Regiments
  Coats of arms of US Artillery Regiments are heraldic emblems associated with field artillery, air defense artillery, and coast artillery regiments in the US Army...
  
  

External links

• http://www.hood.army.mil/69ADA/
• http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Heraldry/ArmyDUISSICOA/ArmyHeraldryUnit.aspx?u=2863
• http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacunithistories/69th_Artillery.html