357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment
| 357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment | |
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Shoulder sleeve insignia | |
| Active | 2008 – 11 |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Army |
| Type | Air defense |
| Size | Brigade |
| Part of | United States Army Europe |
| Garrison/HQ | Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| Motto(s) | Missile Away, Target Destroyed |
| Engagements | World War II |
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| Distinctive unit insignia |
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Activated on 15 April 2008, 357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment was a brigade level air defense unit of the United States Army. Based in Kaiserslautern, Germany. It was a subordinate unit of United States Army Europe.
Subordinate units
Lineage
Constituted 17 June 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 357th Coast Artillery Transport Detachment
Activated 5 July 1944 in Australia
Inactivated 1 April 1946 in Japan
Redesignated 19 November 1948 as the 357th Antiaircraft Artillery Operations Detachment and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
Activated 14 December 1948 at East Orange, New Jersey
Inactivated 30 June 1950 at East Orange, New Jersey
(Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Withdrawn 1 February 1955 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; concurrently redesignated as the 357th Antiaircraft Artillery Detachment
Activated 18 March 1955 in Germany
Inactivated 24 June 1957 in Germany
Redesignated 29 November 1961 as the 357th U.S. Army Artillery Detachment
Activated 20 December 1961 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Inactivated 15 September 1966 in Germany
Redesignated 1 October 2007 as the 357th Air Defense Artillery Detachment
Activated 16 April 2008 in Germany
Inactivated 17 October 2011 in Kaiserslautern, Germany
Campaign participation credit
- World War II
- New Guinea
- Luzon
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Center of Military History document "357th AMD-D Lineage".