Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 February 2012
3d BATTALION,
4th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY REGIMENT
- Constituted 11 January 1812 in the Regular Army as a company in the 2d Regiment of Artillery
- Organized in May 1812 as Captain James N. Barker's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillery
- Consolidated in late 1813 with Captain Spotswood Henry's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillery (organized in 1812), and consolidated unit designated as Captain James N. Barker's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillery
- Redesignated in December 1813 as Captain Samuel B. Archer's Company, 2d Regiment of Artillery
- Redesignated 12 May 1814 as Captain Samuel B. Archer's Company, Corps of Artillery
- Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Captain Samuel B. Archer's Company, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
- Redesignated 21 August 1816 as Company D, 4th Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Southern Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company C, 4th Regiment of Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 38th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 38th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 24 July 1916 as the 4th Company, Fort Winfield Scott [California]
- Redesignated 29 March 1917 as the 1st Company, Fort MacArthur [California]
- Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 1st Company, Coast Defenses of Los Angeles
- Reorganized and redesignated in October 1917 as the 3d Separate Antiaircraft Battery
- Demobilized 22 January 1919 at Fort Totten, New York
- Reconstituted 1 June 1922 in the Regular Army and consolidated with the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of Los Angeles (active) (organized 1 February 1918 at Los Angeles; consolidated in 1922 with the 1st Company, Coast Defenses of Los Angeles [organized in January 1921 at Los Angeles], and consolidated unit designated as the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of Los Angeles); consolidated unit concurrently redesignated as the 38th Company, Coast Artillery Corps, and inactivated at Los Angeles, California
- Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery C, 4th Coast Artillery
- Activated 18 August 1924 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone
- Inactivated 31 July 1926 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone
- Activated 15 April 1932 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone
- Disbanded 1 November 1944 at Fort Kobbe, Canal Zone; concurrently reconstituted in the Regular Army, consolidated with Battery C, 4th Coast Artillery Battalion (constituted 3 October 1944 in the Army of the United States), consolidated unit designated as Battery C, 4th Coast Artillery Battalion, and activated in the Galapagos Islands
- Disbanded 1 February 1946 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone
- Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery C, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery C, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
- Redesignated 31 July 1950 as Battery C, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 17 June 1957 in England
- Consolidated 25 June 1958 with Battery C, 4th Field Artillery Battalion (active) (organized in 1901), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Howitzer Battalion, 4th Artillery (organic elements constituted 2 June 1958 and activated 25 June 1958)
- Battalion inactivated 25 September 1958 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Assigned 15 March 1960 to the 2d Infantry Brigade
- Activated 1 April 1960 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts
- Inactivated 20 April 1962 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Brigade
- Redesignated (less former Battery C, 4th Field Artillery Battalion) 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery (former Battery C, 4th Field Artillery Battalion, concurrently redesignated as the 3d Battalion, 4th Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage)
- 3d Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery, assigned 13 September 1972 to the 82d Airborne Division and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Relieved 17 September 2005 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 3d Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- ANNEX
- Constituted 16 December 1940 in the Regular Army as Battery L, 95th Coast Artillery
- Activated 17 April 1941 at Camp Davis, North Carolina
- Reorganized and redesignated 12 December 1943 as Battery C, 866th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
- Inactivated 30 September 1946 in the Philippine Islands
- Redesignated 13 October 1948 as Battery C, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
- Activated 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss, Texas
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- War of 1812
- *Canada
- Louisiana 1815
- Barbary Wars
- *Streamer with bronze star (authorized by the U.S. Navy for actions against Algiers in 1815)
- Indian Wars
- Creeks
- *Seminoles
- Modocs
- *Little Big Horn
- Nez Perces
- Bannocks
- Mexican War
- Palo Alto
- Resaca de la Palma
- Monterey
- Vera Cruz
- Cerro Gordo
- *Contreras
- *Chapultepec
- Tamaulipas 1846
- Civil War
- *Peninsula
- Shiloh
- Valley
- Manassas
- *Antietam
- *Fredericksburg
- Murfreesborough
- *Chancellorsville
- *Gettysburg
- Chickamauga
- Chattanooga
- *Wilderness
- *Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- *Petersburg
- *Shenandoah
- Nashville
- *Appomattox
- Virginia 1861
- *Virginia 1862
- *Virginia 1863
- Virginia 1864
- *Virginia 1865
- Mississippi 1862
- War with Spain
- *Puerto Rico
- World War I
- *Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- *American Theater, Streamer without inscription
- Tunisia
- Sicily
- Naples-Foggia
- Rome-Arno
- *Leyte
- *Ryukyus
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- *Grenada
- Southwest Asia
- *Defense of Saudi Arabia
- *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Battery A additionally entitled to:
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- Panama (with arrowhead)
Battery C additionally entitled to:
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- National Resolution
DECORATIONS
- *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994
- *Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
- Battery A additionally entitled to:
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2003
- Battery B additionally entitled to:
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ APR-NOV 2006
- Battery C additionally entitled to:
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003-2004
- Battery E additionally entitled to:
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ APR 2008-FEB 2009
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ FEB 2009-JAN 2010
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History