Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 February 2012
2d BATTALION,
6th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY REGIMENT
- Constituted 8 March 1898 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 6th Regiment of Artillery
- Organized 23 March 1898 at Fort McHenry, Maryland
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 60th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 60th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 20 July 1916 as the 2d Company, Fort Winfield Scott [California]
- Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of San Francisco
- Redesignated 16 September 1918 as Battery A, 50th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
- Redesignated 2 December 1918 as the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of San Francisco
- Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 60th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery A, 6th Coast Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 18 October 1944 as Battery A, 174th Coast Artillery Battalion
- Disbanded 10 December 1945 at Fort Winfield Scott, California
- Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Battery A, 6th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Redesignated 4 October 1950 as Battery A, 6th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, an element of the 6th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Ord, California
- Inactivated 3 April 1956 at Fort Ord, California, and relieved from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division
- Consolidated 1 September 1963 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery (active) (organized in 1838), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery, an element of the 3d Armored Division (organic elements constituted 30 August 1957 and activated 1 October 1957)
- Redesignated (less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery; concurrently inactivated in Germany, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division (former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 6th Artillery, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 2d Battalion, 6th Field Artillery -- hereafter separate lineage)
- Headquarters, 2d Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery, transferred 16 June 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Bliss, Texas
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- Philippine Insurrection
- *Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- New Guinea
- Bismarck Archipelago
- Luzon
DECORATIONS
- None
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History