The five 100th Missile Defense Brigade (Ground-based Midcourse Defense) Soldiers who executed the intercept of a test intercontinental ballistic missile target May 30, 2017, are presented with coins of excellence by Lt. Gen. James Dickinson, left, commanding general, Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, June 2, 2017, at SMDC headquarters in Colorado Springs. The flight test, dubbed Flight Test Ground-based Interceptor (FTG)-15, was the first successful intercept of an ICBM target by the GMD system. (

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