Redstone Rocket:
Throughout a year of change within the Department of Defense, the Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command remained focused on providing space, missile defense and high altitude capabilities so combatant commanders can fight and win today.
The Army’s senior air and missile defender, Lt. Gen. James Dickinson, spent his second full year at the helm, leading the command’s roughly 2,800 Soldiers and Army civilians as they performed missions in 23 different locations in 11 times zones around the world.
As the lead for Army space and missile defense efforts and one of 10 Army service component commands, SMDC/ARSTRAT overseas operational space and missile defense missions around the globe. From trained and ready space and missile defense forces, to innovative doctrine and concept to research and development, SMDC never slows.
