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| 101st Signal Battalion | |
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 New York Army National Guard Shoulder Sleeve insignia |
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| Active | 1 August 2004 - PRESENT |
| Country | United States |
| Allegiance | United States Army |
| Branch | United States Army National Guard |
| Type | Headquarters |
| Role | Signal |
| Size | Battalion |
| Part of | New York National Guard |
| Garrison/HQ | Yonkers, New York |
| Motto | "Pro Patria Et Unitate" (For Country and Unity) |
| Anniversaries | Federally recognized on 6 December 1886. Reorganized as the 101st Signal Bn on 1 August 2004. |
| Engagements | Civil War: Battle of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg. WWI: Ypres-Lyes, Somme Offensive, Flanders. WWII: Leyte, Ryukyus. Korean War: First UN counteroffensive, CCF Spring offensive, UN summer-fall offensive, Second Korean winter, Korea - summer/fall 1952, Third Korean Winter, Korea - summer 1953. |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
LTC Thomas J. Kilmartin |
| Insignia | |
| Distinctive unit insignia | .gif) |
The 101st Signal Battalion is an Echelons Above Corps Signal Unit of the New York Army National Guard. It is a subordinate unit of the 53rd Troop Command. http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/newnyarngunitlist.htm 1 The Headquarters of the 101st Signal Battalion is located in Yonkers, New York.
Mission
The mission of the 101st Signal Battalion is to provide and manage communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces. Signal support includes Network Operations (information assurance, information dissemination management, and network management) and management of the electromagnetic spectrum. Signal support encompasses all aspects of designing, installing, maintaining, and managing information networks to include communications links, computers, and other components of local and wide area networks. Signal soldiers of the 101st Signal Battalion plan, install, operate, and maintain voice and data communications networks that employ single and multi-channel satellite, tropospheric scatter, terrestrial microwave, switching, messaging, video-teleconferencing, visual information, and other related systems. They integrate tactical, strategic and sustaining base communications, information processing and management systems into a seamless global information network that supports knowledge dominance for Army, joint and coalition operations.
History
Organized 6 December 1886 and 29 December 1894, in the New York National Guard at New York and Brooklyn, respectively, as the Provisional Signal Corps of the 1st and 2d Brigades.
Reorganized and redesignated 11 November 1892 as the Provisional Signal and Telegraph Corps of the 1st and 2d Brigades, respectively.
Reorganized and redesignated 10 January 1895 as the 1st and 2d Signal Corps, respectively.
Reorganized and redesignated 23 July 1903 as the 1st and 2d Companies, Signal Corps, respectively.
1st and 2d Signal Corps consolidated 7 February 1914 and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Battalion, Signal Corps, with Headquarters at New York Called into Federal Service 18 June 1916 for service on the Mexican Border.
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1917 as the 102d Field Signal Battalion and assigned to the 27th Division (1st Battalion, Signal Corps organized 19 November 1917 in the New York Guard with Headquarters at New York to replace battalion in Federal service).
Demobilized 31 March 1919 at Camp Upton, New York.
Consolidated with the 1st Battalion, Signal Corps, New York Guard, and consolidated unit reorganized in the New York National Guard as the 1st Battalion, Signal Corps, with Headquarters Federally recognized 3 May 1921 at New York.
Redesignated 1 June 1921 as the 101st Signal Battalion. Inducted into Federal service 13 January 1941 at home stations. Inactivated 8 December 1945 at Camp Stoneman, California.
Reorganized and Federally recognized 16 October 1947 with Headquarters at Yonkers Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1950 as the 101st Signal Battalion.
Ordered into active Federal service 19 August 1950 at home stations. (101st Signal Battalion, Corps (NGUS) organized and Federally recognized 19 August 1952 with Headquarters at Yonkers).
Released from active Federal service 27 September 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from the 101st Signal Battalion, Corps (NGUS).
Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1959 as the 101st Signal Battalion. Ordered into active Federal service 1 October 1961 at home stations; released 5 August 1962 from active Federal service and reverted to state control.
Ordered into active Federal service 24 March 1970 at home stations; released 30 March 1970 from active Federal service and reverted to state control.
Inactivated on 20 August 1994 at Camp Smith, Peekskill, NY.
Reconstituted into the Army Force Structure effective 1 September 2004 and into the New York Army National Guard as the 101st Signal Battalion. http://www.nysignal.org/101LINEAGE.pdf 2
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered KOREA.
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 October 1944 to 4 July 1945.
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA. http://www.nysignal.org/101LINEAGE.pdf 2
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