Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
The Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade was constitued Jan. 25, 1907 in the Regular Army at the 133rd Company of the Coast Artillery Corps. The battery was organized in August 1907 at Fort Terry, New York. Since then the battrey has been reorganized, redesignated, demobilized, inactivated, disbanded, and activated many times in places such as South Carolina, North Carolina, Germany, Missouri, Georgia, Massachusetts, Colorado and Texas.
Campaign streamers awarded to the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade include the World War I campaigns of Aisne-Marne, Oisne-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne and Champagne; and World War II campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace and central Europe. The brigade's participation in the amphibious invasion of Europe on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The battery was activated at its present location of Fort Bliss, Texas on Sept. 1, 1971. On Dec. 16, 1980 it was reorganized and redesignated under the current title of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. Recently, the brigade earned campaign steamers and the United States Army Valorous Unit Award during Operations Desert Shield and Storm.
