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2nd Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery (SHORAD)

The 2nd Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery conducts all institutional shorad weapons training and equipment testing. Executes shorad subject matter expert requirements in support of usaadasch. On order, supports the fort bliss mobilization mission.

The Battalion conducts and supports SHORAD systems institutional training:

• Battery Headquarters/A: Officer Basic Course, SHORAD Weapons Track -- MOS 14B (SHORAD System Officer); FAAD C2, Sentinel, Stinger, Bradley Linebacker, and Avenger community training (e.g., communications, Visual Aircraft Recognition [VACR], and Stinger target engagement in the Improved Moving Target Simulator) for MOSs 14J10 (FAAD Command, Control, Communications, Computers, And Intelligence [C4I] Tactical Operations Center Enhanced Operator/Maintainer), 14M10 (MANPADS Crewman), 14R10 (Bradley Stinger Fighting Vehicle Crewman), and 14S10 (Avenger Crewman).
• Battery B: Bradley Linebacker -- MOSs 14R10 (Bradley Stinger Fighting Vehicle Crewman) and 14B (SHORAD System Officer).
• Battery C: Avenger and Stinger -- MOSs 14M10 (MANPADS Crewman), 14S10 (Avenger Crewman), and 14B (SHORAD System Officer).
• Battery D: FAAD C2 and Sentinel -- MOSs 14J10 (FAAD C4I Tactical Operations Center Enhanced Operator/Maintainer), 140A (FAAD C4I System Integrator), and 14B (SHORAD System Officer).

The Battalion staff design, develop, review, and update POIs, lesson plans, and related material for institutional training. Maintain an audit trail of POI and lesson plans development. Qualify instructors, following their graduation from the Brigade TAITC, via the Battalion Qualification Board. Schedule and adjust classes in accordance with the Structure Manpower Decision Review and Training Requirements Arbitration Panel processes, producing appropriate training schedules. Perform academic counseling; conduct academic boards, when necessary, and render recommendations. Perform organizational maintenance on assigned conventional and tactical equipment and training devices. Maintain unit physical readiness. Execute and support soldier and family care and community responsibilities.

Constituted 8 March 1898 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 6th Regiment of Artillery. Organized 23 March 1898 at Fort McHenery, Maryland. Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 60th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps. Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 60th Company, Coast Artillery Corps. Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of San Francisco. Redesignated 16 September 1918 as Battery A, 50th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps). Redesignated 2 December 1918 as 2d Company, Coast Defenses of San Francisco. Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 60th Company, Coast Artillery Corps. Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery A, 6th Coast Artillery. Disbanded 10 December 1945 at Fort Winfield Scott, California

Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Battery A, 6th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion. Redesignated 4 October 1950 as Battery A, 6th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, an element of the 6th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Ord, California. Inactivated 3 April 1956 at Fort Ord, California, and relieved from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division.

Consolidated 1 September 1963 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery (active) (organized in 1838) , and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery, an element of the 3d Armored Division (organic elements constituted 30 August 1957 and activated 1 October 1957)

Redesignated (less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery; concurrently inactivated in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division (former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 2d Battalion, 6th Field Artillery - separate lineage)

Headquarters, 2d Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery, transferred 16 June 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and organized at Fort Bliss, TX.