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Network Enterprise Center-Camp Zama

 

 

Mission:

Maintain Honshu's Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN) as part of USARPAC's Theatre Information Grid; provide information management enabling Mission Command for United States Army Japan, I Corps Forward, and tenant units.

Focus Statement:

Cultivating an inclusive team of professionals who expertly and seamlessly connect the Warfighter to the strategic networks that enable Mission Command.

METL:

Conduct Company Headquarter Operations

Conduct DODIN Operations (Strategic)

Plan Combat Network Radio (CNR) Network

Conduct Expeditionary Deployment Operations

Contacts

US Postal Mail
USANEC-CZ
Unit 45012 (Attn: NETC-SPN-B)
APO AP 96343-5012

Commercial Mail
Zainichi Beigun Camp Zama
Cdr, USANEC-CZ
Attn: NETC-SPN-B
Bldg. 160, Camp Zama
Zama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 〒252-0000 Japan

Telephone
DSN: 315-263-8975
Within Japan: 046-407- 8975
From the U.S.: 011-81-46-407-8975

History

This unit was constituted July 11, 1942, in the Army of the United States as the 287th Signal Company, Amphibian, and activated July 13, 1942, at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts.

It was redesignated as the 287th Signal Company on May 10, 1943.

On August 1, 1952, the unit was allotted to the Regular Army.

On July 25, 1955, the unit was inactivated in Japan.

Activated October 16, 1992, in Japan

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

 

World War II: New Guinea
Leyte (with arrowhead device)
Korean War: UN Defensive 1950
UN Offensive 1950
CCF Intervention 1950 ~ 1951
First UN Counteroffensive 1951
CCF Spring Offensive 1951
UN Summer-Fall Offensive 1951
Korea Summer 1953
(* UN – United Nations)
(* CCF – Communist Chinese Forces)

 

DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Navy) – Incheon
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) – Pacific Theater 1944
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) – Pacific Theater 1944 ~ 1945
Army Superior Unit Award – 2008 ~ 2009
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation – October 17, 1944 ~ July 4, 1945
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation – Korea 1950 ~ 1952