USMC  HAWK ASSOCIATION

United States Marine Corps

HONORS

AWARDED

5th Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion    

NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE STREAMER

COLD WAR VICTORY MEDAL AUTHORIZED BY 111th CONGRESS BUT NOT THE DOD AS YET

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5th Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion

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

August 1969  redesignated Detachment "A" 2nd Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion