101st Signal Battalion

101st Signal Battalion
New York Army National Guard Shoulder Sleeve insignia
Active	1 August 2004 – PRESENT
Country	United States
Allegiance	United States Army
Branch	United States Army National Guard
Type	Headquarters
Role	Signal
Size	Battalion
Part of	New York National Guard
Garrison/HQ	Yonkers, New York
Motto(s)	"Pro Patria Et Unitate" (For Country and Unity)
Anniversaries	Federally recognized on 6 December 1886. Reorganized as the 101st Signal Bn on 1 August 2004.
Engagements	WWI: Ypres-Lyes, Somme Offensive, Flanders. WWII: Leyte, Ryukyus. Korean War: First UN counteroffensive, CCF Spring offensive, UN summer-fall offensive, Second Korean winter, Korea – summer/fall 1952, Third Korean Winter, Korea – summer 1953.
Commanders
Current commander	LTC Diane Armbruster [1]
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia

The 101st Signal Battalion, headquartered in Yonkers, New York, is an Echelons Above Corps Signal Unit of the New York Army National Guard. It is subordinate to the 53rd Troop Command.

The mission of the 101st Signal Battalion is to provide and manage communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces. Signal support includes Network Operations (information assurance, information dissemination management, and network management) and management of the electromagnetic spectrum. Signal support encompasses designing, installing, maintaining, and managing information networks; to include communications links, computers, and other components of local and wide area networks.

Soldiers belonging to the 101st Signal Battalion plan, install, operate, and maintain voice and data communications networks that employ single and multi-channel satellite, tropospheric scatter, terrestrial microwave, switching, messaging, video-teleconferencing, visual information, and other related systems. They also integrate tactical, strategic and sustaining base communications, information processing and management systems into a seamless global information network that supports knowledge dominance for Army, joint and coalition operations.

Organized 6 December 1886 and 29 December 1894, in the New York National Guard at New York and Brooklyn, respectively, as the Provisional Signal Corps of the 1st and 2d Brigades. Following this, the units were restructured and on 11 November 1892, were designated the Provisional Signal and Telegraph Corps of the 1st and 2d Brigades, respectively.