101st Signal Battalion ( United States ) Headquartered in Yonkers , New York , The 101st Signal Battalion is an Echelons Above Corps Signal Unit of the New York Army National Guard . It is subordinate to the 53rd Troop Command . Mission . 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 . History . 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 . After three years , on 10 January 1895 , they were redesignated as the 1st and 2d Signal Corps . Another restructuring occurred on 23 July 1903 , becoming the 1st and 2d companies , Signal Corps . Following this , they consolidated on 7 February 1914 , as the 1st Battalion , Signal Corps . Following this , they were called into federal service on 18 June 1916 , for service on the Mexican Border . They were redesignated as the 102d Field Signal Battalion and were assigned to the 27th Division on 1 October 1917 . They were demobilized on 31 March 1919 at Camp Upton , New York . After this , they consolidated with the 1st Battalion , Signal Corps , New York Guard . The consolidated unit reorganized into the New York National Guard as the 1st Battalion , Signal Corps ; headquarters was recognized federally on 3 May 1921 , in New York . The 1st Battalion , Signal Corps , was redesignated 1 June 1921 as the 101st Signal Battalion . Inducted into Federal service 13 January 1941 at home stations , furthermore deactivated 8 December 1945 at Camp Stoneman , California . The first battalion was reorganized and federally recognized 16 October 1947 with Headquarters at Yonkers . After this , they were redesignated on 1 March 1950 , as the 101st Signal Battalion . The unit was deactivated on 20 August 1994 at Camp Smith , Peekskill , NY , and lay dormant until 1 September 2004 , when it was reconstituted into the Army Force structure and into the New York Army National guard .