Office,
Chief of Air Defense Artillery (OCADA)
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OCADA manages the personnel lifecycles for ADA active and reserve component
officers, warrant officers, and enlisted Soldiers; conducts branch marketing
initiatives; and publishes the ADA Magazine in an effort to maintain the quality
and health of ADA military occupational specialists (MOSs) and areas of concentration
(AOCs) while improving the overall image of the branch and fostering espirit
de corps.
Personnel
Development Division (PDD) Visit the Fires Knowledge Center (FKN)
PDD acts as the principal staff element to execute the Chief of Air Defense
Artillery (ADA) branch proponent responsibilities specified in Army Regulation
600-3, The Army Personnel Proponent System. Serve as the point of contact to
gather and evaluate data, identify issues and initiatives, coordinate actions,
and recommend personnel life-cycle management function policy changes for active
and reserve component ADA officers, warrant officers and enlisted soldiers,
market the branch to Army agencies, war fighter headquarters, cadets, and potential
recruits. For more information, call (915) 568-3022 or DSN 978-3022 or to send
an email.
Branch
Marketing Visit the Fires Knowledge Center (FKN)
The primary goal of Branch Marketing is to project and diversified image of
ADA throughout the Army and civilian communities. Focus is targeted on improving
the accession of high-quality future ADA officers and increasing recruiting
and retention in the enlisted section. Branch Marketing strives to demonstrate
that ADA is the leading branch for technological challenges while affording
its personnel the opportunities for exciting and rewarding careers. Marketing
venues vary from campus visits, ROTC/USMA camps and open houses to websites
and CD/DVDs. Emphasis is placed on creating an overall positive ADA experience.
Continually evolving, we understand that it is crucial to develop new and innovative
ways to motivate and promote ADA to future and current personnel. For more
information, call (915) 568-4133 or DSN 978-4133 or to send an email.
ADA
Online
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The final print edition of the ADA (Professional Bulletin 44) magazine was
published in October 2006. This publication was discontinued due to the Base
Realignment and Closure (BRAC) initiative, which mandated that the ADA school
combine with the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma to establish
a Fires Center of Excellence. As a result, both of the branch magazines were
dissolved to create a new unified publication, Fires Magazine.
ADA Online provides air defenders with an up-to-date
perspective at what is happening in and around the ADA arena. Separated
into three sections, ADA Online offers:
- Links to Air and Missile Defense articles from news
media websites.
- Original, historical and human interest articles;
press releases; notices of conventions, symposiums, meetings, reunions,
contest and anything else that might be of interest to Air Defenders.
- Links to other helpful areas that contain information
of specific interest to the branch such as distributive learning,
directories, photo galleries, magazine archive, ADA in action series
and other US government websites.
To submit an article, click
here. Submissions will
be considered for either online or print (Fires PB-644)
publication.
Fires
Magazine
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The Fires Professional Bulletin 644 is a bimonthly magazine that is jointly
published
by the Field Artillery (FA) Center in Fort Sill Oklahoma and the Air Defense Artillery
(ADA) School in Fort Bliss Texas; under the auspices of the future Fires Center
of Excellence (CoE). The purpose of publishing Fires is
to transmit professional news and analyses of developments, changing roles and
missions, and evolving tactics, techniques and procedures, while serving as a
forum for debate on topics and issues that effect the FA and ADA communities.
Reaching more than 65,000 artillerymen, Fires disseminates professional
knowledge about FA and ADA progress
and development; cultivating a common understanding of the power, limitations
and application of joint fires, both lethal and nonlethal; and fosters joint
fires interdependency among the armed services. Additionally, Fires fosters
a spirit of unity and esprit de corps by forging a bond among active duty, reserve,
guardsmen and retired ADA Soldiers. Fires is used to cultivate the understanding
of and interoperability between FA and ADA units - all of which contribute
to the good of both branches, the Army, joint forces and our nation.
To subscribe, Superintendent of Documents, P.O.
Box 37154, Pittsburg, PA 15250-7954 (1-866-512-1800)
or for membership in the (US Army Field Artillery Association).
To submit an article, click
here. It is recommended that you contact the ADA Editor at (915)
568-6956 or DSN 978-6956 prior to your submission to obtain a Writer’s/Photographer’s
Guide that outlines all the requirements for submitting an article.
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