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Army Air Defense Command, previously Army Anti-Aircraft Command, was a major command of the United States Army which existed from 1957 to 1974. The previous ARAACOM was created in 1950 and was redesignated ARADCOM in 1957. It was formed to command the Army units allocated to the air defense of the Continental United States.
The 32nd AAMDC’s Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI), or Unit Crest, features a five-pointed star in its center; the points represent the unit’s participation in the campaigns of St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne during World War I and New Guinea and Leyte during World War II.
19 lut 2014 · ARADCOM was established in 1957, born from the already existing Army Antiaircraft Artillery Command (ARAACOM), and headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO. The SSI pictured here was approved on 10 April 1958, replacing the insignia previously approved for the ARAACOM.
On 1 December 1968, the ADA branch was authorized to wear modified Artillery insignia, crossed field guns with missile. The Branch Motto, "First To Fire", was adopted in 1986 by the attendees of the ADA Commanders' Conference at Fort Bliss.
In August 1963, the Army assigned the troops under the control of the 13th Artillery Group to the 53rd Artillery Brigade and the 2nd Region of Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM). The soldiers could now go off TDY status and bring their families, cars, and personal effects to south Florida.
ARADCOM, whose motto was "Vigilant and Invincible", is the primary focus of this work. Given all the external factors of the threat, the nation and the other elements of the military, ARADCOM was the last line of defense against attacking enemy aircraft.
To summarize this decade in terms of threat, the nation, the military and ARADCOM, this phase of deployment and growth in ARADCOM saw a leap from the post-World War II propeller-driven bomber...
