The 1st Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment maintains the Patriot missile systems deployed to protect assets on Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates.
“[At home station] we do our gunnery certifications and then we do pre-deployment exercises and that culminates with us deploying,” said 1st Lt. Rafael Ramos-Michael, Bravo Battery, 1-43 ADA fire control platoon leader. “Here our primary role is ballistic missile defense.”