Story by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Osburn | U.S. Army Europe and Africa | 07.17.2025
Across Europe and beyond, defending the skies is no longer a fixed requirement. It is a fast-evolving, multi-domain mission shaped by accelerating threats, advancing technologies, and an urgent demand for speed, adaptability, and interoperability. For the U.S. Army and NATO, maintaining air defense superiority over the next five to ten years will depend not only on the systems we deploy today,......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Jacob Kohrs | 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command | 05.22.2025
The town of Herrlisheim, France remembers the sacrifice of the 12th Armor Division “Hellcats” and the liberation of their village from Nazis in 1945. The remembrance ceremony on May 8 was meaningful to the attendees in various ways. One individual attended because she lived through the Nazi occupation, another came to feel a connection to his uncle who fought with the Hellcats, and a third......
Story by Staff Sgt. Robert Wormley | 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command | 09.14.2023
SEMBACH, Germany -- The 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, will activate on October 4, 2023, at Katterbach Kaserne in Ansbach, Germany. 1-57 is an active duty short range air defense unit with similar capabilities as the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, in Ansbach, Germany....
Story by Maj. Avery Schneider | New York National Guard | 01.04.2023
National Guard Soldiers deployed to Europe recently spent time training with active-duty counterparts to improve their ability to plan and win future battles together. The Guardsmen, serving in Grafenwoehr, Germany with the New York National Guard’s Task Force Orion, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team on the Joint Multinational Training Group – Ukraine mission, met aviators from the 12th......
Story by Spc. Olivia Gum | 118th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Tennessee Army National Guard | 02.26.2022
The United States and Polish militaries held a closing ceremony for the Polish phase of exercise Saber Strike on Feb. 26. Held every two years since 2010, Saber Strike includes approximately 13,000 participants from 13 nations. “During Saber Strike we’re conducting air and missile defense training with our NATO Allies,” said U.S. Army Col. Patrick Thompson, 164th Air Defense......
Story by Dani Johnson | U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach | 10.19.2021
ANSBACH, Germany (Oct. 19, 2021) – The 164th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (ADA) assumed authority of air defense mission command element from 174th ADA in a ceremony Oct. 18 at the Katterbach Fitness Center....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach | 06.23.2021
Soldiers, family members, friends and community leaders from 5th Battalion 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (5-4 ADAR) ‘We Attack’ held a change of responsibility ceremony bidding farewell to Command Sgt. Maj. George A. Palmer and welcoming in Command Sgt. Maj. Charles L. Robinson III on June 23, 2021 at Shipton Kaserne in Ansbach, Germany....
Courtesy Story | 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command | 07.28.2020
678th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, participated in the Spartan Shield 20-7 exercise where their Air Defense Artillery Fire Control Officers (ADAFCO) attended the Army’s ADFACO Table VIII certification course from July 20 – 23 2020 at the Warrior Preparation Center on Einsiedlerhof Air Station, Germany....
