Email from Monday May 19, 2025 Click here to view the Alert on the MDAA website Follow and Support MDAA MDAA Alert: In the Field with the 10th   Rhine Ordnance Barracks, Kaiserslautern, Germany; May 14th, 2025. 10th AAMDC 2025 Champion Winners. Dear Members and Friends, Last Wednesday, on a sunny morning, the 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command (AAMDC) HQ Battery gathered on the training grounds where century-old pines meet the rolling Pfalz. These American Soldiers of the Army Air Defense Artillery Branch, with the mission of Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD), stand on European soil with an unbreakable commitment kept for over a century by the United States Army Europe to preserve peace, stability, and freedom for Europe. As U.S. Army Europe’s theater missile‑defense headquarters, the 10th AAMDC leads to further empower NATO IAMD nations through its current PATRIOT and SHORAD batteries and its expertise in planning, operations, and leadership. The 10th AAMDC is commanded by Brigadier General Curtis King and overseen by the United States Air Force Europe, integrating into a continent‑wide defense. The 10th AAMDC planners integrate sensors, interceptors, and data collection to best provide the United States Forces in Europe and NATO defense against Air and Missile Threats. Live‑fire rotations in Poland and rapid deployment demonstrations across Eastern Europe validate the formation’s readiness to defend critical assets and preserve freedom of maneuver for the U.S. Army Europe. It is, without a doubt, a remarkable and challenging mission that is compounded with the lack of capacity of Missile and Drone Defense systems. It comes down to the grit, commitment, ingenuity, and phenomenal leadership of these American soldiers and officers to do the best with what missile and drone defense capacity they are given, using their leadership, trust, and relationships jointly and with the NATO Allies in IAMD to make the European Theater a safer place. Carrying forward the historic legacy of Allied unity, these Soldiers stand shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, heart to heart with NATO partners in Poland, Germany, the Baltics, the Netherlands, Romania, Nordic Nations and other NATO nations —manning PATRIOT batteries, mastering SHORAD systems, learning the combat air, missile, drone defense lessons from Ukraine, to best lead Europe and NATO in integrated air and missile defense The 10th AAMDC is a World-Champion Culture on Europe’s front line for Air and Missile Defense. This marks our 48th Champion event in MDAA history. Now at a total of 532 Champions, the six exemplary World Champion awardees we recognized from the 10th AAMDC in the field in Germany are: Sergeant, Fields, Tyler Sergeant, Larry, Devonte Specialist, Sarfo, Samuel Specialist, Meno, Alec Specialist, Cortes, Christopher Specialist, Carney, Joaquin Hooah! Riki Ellison Chairman and Founder Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Click Here to Join MDAA _____________________________________________________________________ MDAA is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501(c) (4) organization. Our mission is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats. We are a membership-funded organization that does not advocate on behalf of any specific system, technology, architecture or entity. Founded in 2002, MDAA is the only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit our website www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org for more information.   Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance 515 King Street, Suite 330 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone: (703) 299-0060 Email: [email protected]   Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance | 515 King Street Suite 330 | Alexandria, VA 22314 US Unsubscribe | Constant Contact Data Notice