Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 October 2018
1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- Constituted 27 April 1798 in the Regular Army as a company in the 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
- Organized in May 1798 as Captain Lemuel Gates’s Company, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
- Redesignated 3 March 1799 as Captain Lemuel Gates’s Company, 4th Battalion, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1802 as Captain Lemuel Gates’s Company, Regiment of Artillerists
- Redesignated in 1807 as Captain John Walbach’s Company, Regiment of Artillerists
- Reorganized and redesignated 11 January 1812 as Captain John Walbach’s Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1814 as Brevet Major John Walbach’s Company, Corps of Artillery
- Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Brevet Major John Walbach’s Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
- Consolidated 14 November 1815 with Captain James Green’s Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Brevet Major John Walbach’s Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
- Redesignated 17 June 1816 as Company A, 2d Battalion, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company I, 1st Regiment of Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 8th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 8th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1916 as the 9th Company, Fort Grant [Canal Zone]
- Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 9th Company, Coast Defenses of Balboa
- Redesignated 30 June 1922 as the 8th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery A, 1st Coast Artillery; concurrently inactivated in the Canal Zone
- Activated 1 June 1926 at Fort Randolph, Canal Zone
- Inactivated 31 July 1926 at Fort Randolph, Canal Zone
- Activated 15 April 1932 at Fort Randolph, Canal Zone
- Inactivated 30 March 1941 at Fort Sherman, Canal Zone
- Activated 17 April 1942 at Fort Sherman, Canal Zone
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1944 as Battery A, 1st Coast Artillery Battalion
- Disbanded 1 February 1946 at Fort Sherman, Canal Zone
- Reconstituted 21 June 1950 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 1st Coast Artillery; concurrently redesignated as Battery A, 1st Antiaircraft Battalion
- Redesignated 17 March 1955 as Battery A, 1st Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion
- Activated 15 April 1955 at Irwin, Pennsylvania
- Inactivated 1 September 1958 at Irwin, Pennsylvania; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery (active) (organized in 1901), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery (organic elements constituted and activated 15 May 1958)
- Redesignated 1 May 1966 as the 1st Battalion, 1st Artillery
- Redesignated (less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery, and inactivated at West Point, New York (former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Battalion, 1st Field Artillery-hereafter separate lineage)
- 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery, activated 13 September 1972 in Germany
- Inactivated 16 March 1986 in Germany
- Activated 16 May 1986 in Germany
- Inactivated 15 November 1991 in Germany
- Activated 4 May 1996 at Fort Hood, Texas
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- ANNEX
- Organized in 1813 at Fort Independence, Massachusetts, as a detachment in the 1st Regiment of Artillery
- Redesignated 12 May 1814 as a detachment in the Corps of Artillery
- Redesignated 30 June 1814 as Captain James Green’s Company, Corps of Artillery
- Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Captain James Green’s Company, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division
Campaign Participation Credit
- War of 1812
- Canada
- Indian Wars
- Seminoles
- Texas 1859
- Mexican War
- Palo Alto
- Resaca de la Palma
- Monterey
- Vera Cruz
- Cerro Gordo
- Contreras
- Churubusco
- Molino del Rey
- Chapultepec
- Tamaulipas 1846
- Vera Cruz 1847
- Mexico 1847
- Civil War
- Sumter
- Bull Run
- Mississippi River
- Peninsula
- Manassas
- Antietam
- Fredericksburg
- Chancellorsville
- Gettysburg
- Wilderness
- Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Shenandoah
- Appomattox
- Florida 1861
- Florida 1862
- Florida 1864
- Virginia 1861
- Virginia 1863
- Virginia 1864
- South Carolina 1862
- South Carolina 1863
- West Virginia 1863
- Louisiana 1864
- World War II
- American Theater, Stream
- without inscription
- Tunisia
- Sicily
- Rome-Arno
- Rhineland
- War on Terrorism
- (Campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2002-2003
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History