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Re: Submitting Information into the Forum Regarding 38th ADA Brigade

The 38th Air Defense Brigade was Active 25 May 1961 to 31 July 1981. For a complete history of the 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and it's mission in Korea, please look at Wikipedia about the Organization. One will find that it had a long history beginning in WWI until it was inactivated on 15 July 1981 at Osan Air Base, Korea.

Re: Submitting Information into the Forum Regarding 38th ADA Brigade

You are correct about when the 38th ADA was formed. However the 2/71 was in place in 1960. I believe it was part of I core. When more HAWK units started to be assigned to Korea the 38th ADA was formed.

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I was assigned to Delta battery, 2/71, 38th ADA in April of 1980.
I PCS'd from White Sands Missile Range where we did much testing on the IHawk system.
I believe I was some of the last soldiers to man the "highest US Tactical site" in South Korea, as we were working on turning the site and all the equipment over to the ROK army and it's Katusa's.
When I got back stateside, I was again sent to WSMR, and was assigned to a new missile system, called Patriot. Much like the Hawk system, with the exception of no launchers.
Missiles were stored, and fired from the magazine which held 8 missiles.
Pretty awesome some of you were in Korea for the beginning of the Hawk system, and some of us were there for the end...