A HAWK Missile Battery in the Keys.

TODAY IN KEY WEST HISTORY / March 30, 1979

1979 The U.S. Army announced that the First Battalion of the 65th Air Defense Artillery would leave Key West during the next fiscal year. The unit had 740 military and 10 civilian personnel in Key West. The Air Defense Artillery came to Key West during the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962.

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