Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 October 2018
5th Battalion,
4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- Organized in May 1815 in the Regular Army at Fort Independence, Massachusetts, as Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Samuel D. Harris’ Company, Regiment of Light Artillery
- Redesignated 22 May 1816 as Company E, Regiment of Light Artillery
- Redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company G, 4th Regiment of Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 41st Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 41st Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 1 July 1916 as the 2d Company, Fort Monroe [Virginia]
- Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of Chesapeake Bay
- Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 41st Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery G, 4th Coast Artillery
- Disbanded 1 November 1944 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone
- Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Battery C, 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Redesignated 13 March 1952 as Battery C, 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
- Activated 8 May 1952 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Redesignated 1 May 1953 as Battery C, 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 20 December 1957 at Seattle, Washington
- Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 4th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion activated 1 September 1958 in Germany
- Inactivated 10 August 1960 in Germany
- Redesignated 19 February 1962 as 5th Battalion, 4th Artillery, assigned to the 5th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado
- Inactivated 17 August 1971 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division.
- Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- Activated 16 October 2018 in Germany
Campaign Participation Credit
- War of 1812
- Louisiana 1815
- Indian Wars
- Creeks
- Seminoles
- Modocs
- Little Big Horn
- Nez Perces
- Bannocks
- Nebraska 1855
- Mexican War
- Palo Alto
- Resaca de la Palma
- Monterey
- Vera Cruz
- Cerro Gordo
- Contreras
- Molino del Rey
- 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
- Santiago
- World War II
- American Theater, Streamer
- without inscription
- Tunisia
- Sicily
- Naples-Foggia
- Rome-Arno
- Leyte
- Ryukyus
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- Consolidation I
Decorations
- Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968 (5th Battalion, 4th Artillery, cited; DA GO 43, 1970)
- Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971 (5th Battalion, 4th Artillery, cited; DA GO 42, 1972)
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History