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First Army THAAD Unit Activates

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Thursday, May 29th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt Alpha Battery, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 32nd Army Air & Missile Defense Command yesterday became the first Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system battery at Ft. Bliss, Texas. Lockheed Martin [LMT] is the prime contractor for THAAD, which is managed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and executed by the THAAD project office in Huntsville, Ala. This is the first of four THAAD batteries planned, Col. William Lamb,…

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