Has anyone tried to research the lineage and commendations of their unit, batallion, brigade, army, company? I recently bought a book to trace a Pres. Unit Citation for the parent Regiment of one of my ADA brigades. I wondered how a Navy Citation was awarded to a field artillery brigade. I found a military textbook that traced the lineage of ADA units from the Revolutionary War through Vietnam. I found a series of books at US Army Center of Military History and bought one from a used bookstore online.

If you want to get confused, travel back in time starting from your present unit and see how many reorganizations ot will go through from inception and how they earned their Unit Citations. It will amaze you.
Go to the CMH below and click on "online bookshelves", Army Lineage Series of books. I bought my book here; http://www.alibris.com/

http://www.army.mil/cmh/

My problem is that I am older than my Regiment.

Yes, I have actually done that. It's interesting how a unit's lineage is maintained. Your ADA unit, I would imagine evolved from a traditional Field Artillery unit to Air Defense Artillery. I can envision an FA unit being in a shore battery role and being engaged in an otherwise "naval" battle against enemy ships. Sometimes it becomes like a "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" situation. It's all very interesting, to me anyway.

Yeah, the 47th AA (CA) was reconstituted from a National Guard coastal btry in WWII and earned a Navy Pres Citation at Inchon while supporting a Naval operation. The 56th came from a Civil war FA Regiment. The ADA is almost impossible to research without this lineage series because of all the reflagging from Armored and Infantry support groups. But this book makes it interesting as to who begat whom.

Just out of interest I also served with a English County Regiment before going Airborne, and I have attached a link to a site that gives a run down on this old Regiment.

http://www.the-queens-own-buffs.com/...he_queens.html

Originally Posted by LeEnfield

Just out of interest I also served with a English County Regiment before going Airborne, and I have attached a link to a site that gives a run down on this old Regiment.

http://www.the-queens-own-buffs.com/...he_queens.html

Man, talk about a long history. Good article.That doesn't come from history books, you have to research it and a lot is still in military text books that isn't on the internet. I find a lot in ROTC and Military College text books.