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357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment

Field	Value
unit_name	357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment
image	357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment SSI.svg
caption	Shoulder sleeve insignia
dates	2008–11
country	United States
branch	United States Army
type	Air defense
size	Brigade
command_structure	United States Army Europe
garrison	Kaiserslautern, Germany
motto	Missile Away, Target Destroyed
battles	World War II
identification_symbol	[[Image:357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment DUI.jpg	100 px]]
identification_symbol_label	Distinctive unit insignia

The 357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment, activated on 15 April 2008, 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

5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment

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Withdrawn 1 February 1955 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; concurrently redesignated as the 357th Antiaircraft Artillery Detachment.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

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