Career Variety

The crossed cannons and missile insignia of the Air Defense Artillery is your passport to a rewarding career field with exceptional leadership opportunities!

Equipment Diversity

Contemporary enemy air and missile threats encompass a complex spectrum of systems.

ADA Officers provide the technical and tactical expertise to lead Soldiers in any environment to defeat these threats.

Career Options

ADA Officers can operate within Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD), that destroy lower-flying aerial threats assets in foward-operating and maneuver formations conducting decisive operations in the close area.

Or they can operate within High-To-Medium Altitude Air Defense (HIMAD), protecting geopolitical strategic asssets in the division, core, and theater areas providing continuous defense.