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MDAA Alert:
In ADA We Trust
September 25, 2019
Ft. Sill, Oklahoma on September 11, 2019.
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Dear Members and Friends,
In Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, the training, the schooling and indoctrination of every United
States Soldier and Officer in the Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Branch happens here
under the 30th ADA Brigade and the command of the Fires Center of Excellence. The
schooling provides first duty assignment and follow on advanced expertise training
for the Army's four air and missile defense systems that are forward deployed and
in full operations today; the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) [[link removed]],
Patriot [[link removed]]
, Avenger [[link removed]],
and Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) [[link removed]].
Adding to the Army air defense mix next year will be the two new Iron Dome batteries
for fixed site air and cruise missile defense and the new Mobile Short-Range Air
Defense (M-SHORAD) - a Stryker-equipped mobile air defense system that will have
directed energy lasers for the defense of Army Brigade Combat Teams [[link removed]]
in Europe. The ADA Schoolhouse is also responsible for upgrading the newest equipment,
software, and hardware and training the soldiers throughout the force. All Patriot
units forward deployed were recently upgraded with the new Missile Segment Enhancement
(MSE) interceptors and Post Deployment Build 8 (PDB-8).
The true value of the ADA Schoolhouse is creating sustainability, modernization,
and preventing capability and manpower obsolescence to maintain and project force
to operate the critical mission of deterrence and defense in combat for the joint
services and nation for current and future generations. Very few nations have Air
Defense Schools and do not have the foundation, technical expertise, and knowledge
to indigenously develop, sustain, modernize, and grow their air defense forces.
Instead they rely on the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and the U.S. ADA Schoolhouse
for a near term fix and are challenged to sustain and modernize their air and missile
defense forces with the pace of the threat they face.
The United States Army's objectives for air and missile defense are for three phases
to set the conditions to win in a combat fight - the Tactical up front layer, the
close by Operational Support layer, and the further away Strategic Layer. Due to
the critical need to have air and missile defense capabilities in any potential
battle or crisis prior to conflict - in full support of the combat operations at
the strategic, operational, and tactical layers - Army ADA units are always deployed
first and first to fire as well as have the longest forward deployment time for
their soldiers at 12 months over the rest of the combat operational branches who
forward deploy for nine months. This began in 1990 in the First Gulf War and was
done again in the Second Gulf War - both with the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
[[link removed]]
- and continues today in the Middle East with the limited U.S. capacity of air defense
capability of the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AAMDC) [[link removed]].
The recent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and cruise missile attack on the Saudi
Arabia oil fields [[link removed]]
has now caused the United States to forward deploy additional Patriot Batteries
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that were just pulled from the Middle East a year ago to provide relief to the Soldiers
and equipment of the Patriot Force deployed around the world. These existing U.S.
Patriot deployments in the Middle East and new ones coming forward from the United
States are positioned for the three phases of potential conflict against Iran to
defend strategic U.S. forward air projection bases, as well as operational and
tactical air projection bases, directly across the Arabian Sea in the Gulf from
Iran. U.S. Army air and missile defense in the Middle East are already in place
and being further out in place first to set conditions to win against Iran to the
region and U.S. bases located there.

Sharing the Army ADA Schoolhouse in Ft. Sill is the 31st Air Defense Brigade that
rotates into the Middle East on operational deployment under the command of the
32nd AAMDC. Last year, the United States drew down Patriot Units from the Middle
East [[link removed]]
and brought them back to the ADA Schoolhouse to reduce the high up tempo for the
branch and eliminate the 12 month deployments. The ADA Schoolhouse under its 30th
ADA Brigade Command has combat deployed C-RAM in forward operating bases in the
Middle East today saving lives - warning and intercepting incoming rockets and mortars
to U.S. forward operating bases. The 2-6 ADA Battalion has continual rotations of
crews into the Middle East.
Visiting with ADA Soldiers at the C-RAM training facility at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
on September 11, 2019.
The missile threat as the world witnessed with Iran is developing into a 360 degree
threat capability that is interwoven with cruise, ballistic, UAVs, and soon to be
hypersonic. This new threat is over the horizon, with small radar profiles, and
launched as swarm of missiles. The Army ADA Schoolhouse is the critical foundational
solution in doctrine and modernization for the defense from these layered 360 degree
threats.

Two of the new systems being introduced in 2022 will be the new 360 degree radar,
the Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) and the engage on remote/launch
on remote (EOR/LOR) Army system of Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command
System (IBCS) that further enables 360 degree defense with engagement and placement
of multiple types of radars fused together for the best firing solutions.

In the ADA Schoolhouse, the nation and the allies trust.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile
defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats.
We are a membership-funded organization that does not advocate on behalf of any
specific system, technology, architecture or entity. Founded in 2002, MDAA is the
only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and
mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit
our website www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org [[link removed]]
for more information.
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