Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 September 2019

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade

  • Constituted 25 January 1907 in the Regular Army as the 133d Company, Coast Artillery Corps
  • Organized 1 August 1907 at Fort Terry, New York
  • Redesignated 3 July 1916 as the 3d Company, Fort Terry [New York]
  • Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 13th Company, Coast Defenses of Long Island Sound
  • Redesignated in December 1917 as Battery A, 56th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
  • Demobilized 31 July 1921 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina
  • Reconstituted 1 June 1922 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with the 4th Company, Coast Defenses of Long Island Sound (organized in June 1917 as the 7th Company, Fort H.G. Wright [New York]; redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 4th Company, Coast Defenses of Long Island Sound), and consolidated unit redesignated as the 133d Company, Coast Artillery Corps
  • Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Headquarters Battery, 11th Coast Artillery (Headquarters, 11th Coast Artillery, concurrently constituted and activated at Fort H.G. Wright, New York)
  • Inactivated 7 April 1944 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  • Disbanded 14 June 1944
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Coast Artillery, reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Antiaircraft Artillery Group (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
  • Inactivated 27 April 1953 at Fort Tilden, New York
  • Activated 15 January 1955 at Camp Stewart, Georgia
  • Redesignated 20 March 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Artillery Group
  • Inactivated 26 August 1960 at Rehoboth Defense Area, Massachusetts
  • Activated 1 May 1967 at Fort Carson, Colorado
  • Inactivated 26 May 1967 at Fort Carson, Colorado
  • Activated 1 September 1971 at Fort Bliss, Texas
  • Redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Group
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
  • ANNEX
  • Constituted 19 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Group
  • Activated 20 January 1943 at Camp Davis, North Carolina
  • Redesignated 26 May 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
  • lnactivated 6 October 1945 in Germany
  • Allotted 9 December 1948 to the Regular Army
  • Activated 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss, Texas

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Aisne-Marne
  • Oise-Aisne
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Champagne 1918
  • World War II
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • War on Terrorism
  • Global War on Terrorism
  • (additional campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered SAUDI ARABIA AND BAHRAIN 1991
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2002-2003
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2012-2013
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2015
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2014-2015

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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