Section 3. 28th Signal Battalion Memorial Highway.
(a) Findings.--The 28th Signal Battalion of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard is among the oldest continuously serving Signal Battalions in the Signal Corps. On September 12, 1908, the former Company G, 2nd Regiment United Boys Brigade of America, which was started in 1901, became Field Company A, Signal Corps Pennsylvania National Guard, with Fred G. Miller as its first company commander. The unit was activated for service on the Mexican border in 1916, in England and France in 1918, during World War II in Europe and during the Korean Conflict and in Germany in 1950. On June 1, 1959, the unit was expanded, reorganized and rededicated as the 28th Signal Battalion, with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2003 the 28th Signal Battalion was alerted for deployment to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, with troops arriving in Iraq in the spring of 2004 and returning to the United States in the spring of 2005.
(b) Designation.--The portion of State Route 28 in Etna Borough and Shaler Township in Allegheny County is hereby designated as the 28th Signal Battalion Memorial Highway.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway under subsection (b) to traffic in both directions.