U.S. ARMY 108TH AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE UNIT PATCH (SSI)

A component of the 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command, the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade is headquartered at Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg), North Carolina. In addition to its HQ and HQ Battery, it comprises two ADA battalions also stationed at Fort Bragg (3rd Battalion, 4th ADA Regiment and 1st Battalion, 7th ADA Regiment) and a third based at Fort Campbell (2nd Battalion, 44th ADA Regiment).

Approved five months after the unit received its current designation in July 1983, the unit patch for the 108th ADA Brigade, officially called a Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, features a yellow pheon (arrow) inside a blue crenellated area; the blue represents the sky and the pheon is indicative of the unit’s striking power. The blue area is also a reference to its location in Kaiserlautern, Germany at the time the insignia was approved; the town’s name is derived from a nearby stream (blue water) and the Kaiserpfalz, castle of the emperor Barbarossa.

The unit relocated from Kaiserlautern in 1992 to Fort Polk Louisiana, then transferred to Fort Bliss in Texas in 1996. It moved to its current location at Fort Liberty in 2007.