Story by Staff Sgt. Jarred Woods | 157th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East | 10.15.2018
CAMP ATTERBURY, Indiana—Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Ohio Army National Guard conducted a culminating training event near White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico from Oct. 1 through 16, 2018....
Story by Maj. Thomas Cieslak | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 04.05.2018
Conducting static-line airborne operations with non-typical weapons systems requires specialized training and equipment due to their large size. Paratroopers accustomed to the size and weight of a weapons case carrying an M4 or M249 must learn how to pack, move with and exit an aircraft with the bulkier equipment....
Story by Capt. William Leasure | 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade | 02.17.2016
Soldiers assigned to E Battery, 6th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment deployed with their assigned air defense systems across the Korean Peninsula to support 6-52 ADA's recent battalion field training exercise, Feb. 8-19, 2016....
Story by Staff Sgt. Shane Hamann | 102d Public Affairs Detachment | 10.08.2015
Mississippi Army National Guardsmen with the 1st Battalion, 204th Air Defense Artillery Regiment finalized their pre-deployment training for a nearly yearlong rotation in the National Capital Region with a live fire exercise today. The deploying guardsmen are comprised of approximately 200 Soldiers from several units around the state and will be defending the nation’s capital from airborne......
Story by Lance Cpl. April Price | I Marine Expeditionary Force | 08.13.2015
“Ready, aim, fire!” As a Stinger missile slices through the air, it leaves behind a distinct trail of smoke, igniting its target on contact as it crashes and bursts into a ball of flame on the ground below....
Story by 2nd Lt. Joshua Larson | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.13.2012
U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Low-Altitude Air Defense, or LAAD, section with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (Reinforced) trained shoulder-to-shoulder with their air-defense counterparts from the French army Aug. 9 – 13 near Djibouti, Djibouti....