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NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE STREAMER

COLD WAR VICTORY MEDAL AUTHORIZED BY 111th CONGRESS (INDIVIDUAL AWARD)
BUT NOT THE DOD AS YET

LINAGE OF 5th Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion

 

1966

 

Activated 1 July 1966 as 5th Light Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion, FMF Pacific at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, AZ

 

Re-designated 31 January 1969  Detachment "A" 2nd Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion

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