1. prapor 1. dělostřeleckého pluku protivzdušné obrany [1971- ]

História units:

Colors started your bohatú históriu písať 27.04.1798 when vznikol ako company within 2nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers. I nasledujúci mesiac, in the summer of 1798 got the rota version after svojom veliteľovi - Capt. Samuel Gates Company. In marci 1799 (03.03.1799) there has been a change veliteľa and to premenovaniu company to Capt. Lemuel Gates Company and company sa has become súčasťou 4th Battalion, 2nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers. In the year 1802 it occurred to reorganizácii and rota sa 01.04.1802 become súčasťou Regiment of Artillerists. In the year 1807 sa názov of the company changed to Capt. John Walbachs Company and 11.01.1812 sa rota has become súčasťou 1st Regiment of Artillery and subsequently zasiahla to my prebiehajúceho the conflict between the USA and Great Britániou. 12.05.1814 sa rota opäť premenovala in súvislosti with a promotion veliteľa to Bvt. Owner. John Walbachs Company and became the sa súčasťou Corps of Artillery. Already a year, 17.05.1815 sa rota has become súčasťou Corps of Artillery, Northern Division. In the year 1816 sa unit opúäť premenovala. From 17.06.1816 niesla názov Company A, 2nd Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division.
To 01.06.1821 sa unit ako Company become súčasťou 1st Regiment of Artillery. Zasiahla into the battle with about indians (with kmeňom Seminole and subsequently in the year 1859 in Texas), into conflict with the Mexikom (1846 - 1848 and in the battle in the context of občianskej the army 1861 - 1865).
In the framework of the rozsiahlej reorganizácie armádneho delostrelectva in 1901 sa rota 13.02.1901 premenovala to 8th Company, Coast Artillery and became the sa súčasťou Artillery Corps. In 1907 docháza to rozdeleniu Artillery Corps on poľné and pobrežné mainly buy air units and the unit is under názvom 8th Company včlenená to Coast Artillery Corps.
To 01.07.1916 is a unit within the Coast Artillery Corps reoganizovaná to 9th Company dislokovanú vo Fort Grant in the Panamskom prieplavovom pásme. To 31.08.1917 sa unit becomes súčasťou Coast Defenses of Balboa. The listed changes reflect the zmenenú politickú situáciu vo world in súvislosti with prebiehajúcou 1. world war. Unit but to a fighter in this celosvetovom konflikte nezasiahla.
After the end of the war there was opäť to reorganizácii delsotrelectva. 30.06.1922 bola unit reorganizovaná to 8th Company in the context Coast Artillery Corps. To 01.07.1924 sa pobrežné mainly buy air units opäť returned to plukovnej štruktúre and unit bola reorganizovaná to Battery, And 1st Coast Artillery, but súčasne bola inactivated. In 1944 bola viackrát activated and opäť inactivated. The Slovak aktivácii occurred in the period 01.06.1926 to 31.07.1926 vo Fort Randolph, to the second aktivácii in the period 15.04.1932 to 30.03.1941 opäť vo Fort Randolph. to tretej aktivácii occurred 17.04.1942 vo Fort Sherman. To 01.11.1944 bola Battery, And prepodriadená to 1st Coast Artillery Battalion. After the end of the war, to 01.02.1946 bola unit rozpustená vo Fort Sherman.

To opätovnému obnoveniu units within the Regular army there was 21.06.1950 ako Battery A, 1st Coast Artillery, but súčasne occurred to him premenovaniu to Battery A, 1st Antiaircraft Battalion. To 17.03.1955 bola unit premenovaná to Battery A, 1st Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion and subsequently bola 15.04.1955 activated in Irwin, Pennsylvania, which housed up to opätovnej deaktivácie to 01.09.1958. Súčasne with deaktiváciou bola unit zlúčená s Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery. Zlúčená unit retained názov Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery (the base of the new units originated from 15.05.1958). To 01.05.1966 occurred premenovaniu units to 1st Battalion, 1st Artillery.

To 01.09.1971 occurred rozdeleniu unit - pôvodné Veliteľstvo and Veliteľská batéria 1st Howitzer Battalion was transformed to 1st Battalion, 1st Field Artillery, and the zo of the rest of bol vo West Point produced súčasný colors. This colors bol dňom vznku deactivated and to his opätovnej aktivácii occurred about a year neskôr, 13.09.1972 in Germany.

In the framework of the operácie Iraqi Freedom bol colors from februára to maya 2003 nasadený in the field of Perzského gulf. Batteries Alpha and Bravo securing protivzdušnú defense Bahrain, will bring the rest battalion worry bol rozmiestnený in the Kuvajte and zebazpečoval air defense there rozmiestnených military forces.

Vo februári 2006 was decided on the moves battalion worry to Japan (Okinawa). Colors armed with anti-aircraft rocket complexis MIM-104F (PAC-3) Patriot bol to 30.11.2006 stationed on the jet basic Kadena with the role of protivzdušnej and protiraketovej defense before prípadným severokórejským útokom.

Source: CMH Pub-60-5: Air Defense Artillery (Mckenney, Janice E.); Center of Military History of the US Army, Washington D.C. 2000
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