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Other assignments he held as command sergeant major were: the 1st Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery, Fort Stewart, Georgia; Commandant, 24th Infantry Division Noncommissioned Officer Academy, Fort Stewart; and the 24th Division Artillery, Saudi Arabia and Iraq; the 2nd Infantry Division, Korea; and First United States Army, Fort Meade, Maryland.
The Air Defense Artillery branch descended from Anti-Aircraft Artillery (part of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps until 1950, then part of the Artillery Branch) into a separate branch on 20 June 1968. On 1 December 1968, the ADA branch was authorized to wear modified Artillery insignia, crossed field guns with missile.
The Air Defense Artillery is the branch that specializes in anti-aircraft weapons (such as surface-to-air missiles). In the US Army, these groups are composed of mainly air defense systems such as the PATRIOT Missile System, Terminal High Altitude Air Defense, and the Avenger Air Defense system which fires the FIM-92 Stinger missile.
U.S. Air Force: Defense Logistics Agency: Senior Enlisted Leader, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Command Chief Master Sergeant Alvin R. Dyer [12] U.S. Air Force: Defense Media Activity: Senior Enlisted Advisor, Defense Media Activity (DMA) Sergeant Major Ronald Shaw Jr. [13] U.S. Army: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Battalion Headquarters in Fort Cavazos, Tx. is named in his honor. The gym on main post Fort Bliss is also named in his honor. [9] SGT Stout is the only US Army Air Defense Artillerymen to earn the Medal of Honor. [10]
140K Air And Missile Defense (AMD) Tactician; 140L Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Technician (Patriot Systems Technician) 140Z Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Immaterial; Enlisted. 14E PATRIOT Fire Control Enhanced Operator/Maintainer; 14G Air Defense Battle Management System Operator; 14H Air Defense Enhanced Early Warning System Operator; 14P Air ...
Four such brigades, [3] 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, and 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade; by training, all stand ready to accomplish their mission of air defense against missile attack – 'anywhere, anytime' in support of the war-fighting combatant commander (CCDR).
Gainey enlisted in the United States Army under the Delayed Entry Program in 1974 and entered basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky on June 17, 1975. Thereafter, he served in a number of enlisted leadership positions, from gunner to command sergeant major.