Story by Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf | 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade | 10.18.2017
FORT HOOD, Texas – Soldiers of the Battery Echo, 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade became the first unit to become mission qualified with the THAAD weapon system on Fort Hood....
Story by Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf | 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade | 02.02.2017
In a hardened tent with an almost endless display of monitors, maps and heads up displays, a team of specialists, a sergeant and a lieutenant run their battalion’s operations. As the sun disappears from the horizon, they settle into their shift. They perform their preventative maintenance checks, send up reports, but more importantly, watch the wall of monitors for red blips – airborne......
Story by Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf | 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade | 09.10.2016
The 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade held two personality classes and Ask, Care and Escort training with the intent of raising awareness of suicide and promoting suicide prevention at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar....
Story by Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf | 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade | 08.12.2016
AL UDEID AIRBASE, Qatar – The doorknob twists and in enters a Soldier returning from a hard day’s work. Before he could remove his camouflaged blouse, he is bombarded by his children. “Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!” “The kids run up to me and they try to tell me about their day,” said Sgt. Kye Murray, a Deltona, Florida native and communications noncommissioned officer in charge.......
