Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 October 2018
5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery
- Constituted 8 March 1898 in the Regular Army as Battery E, 7th Regiment of Artillery
- Organized 31 March 1898 at Fort Slocum, New York
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 75th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 75th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 18 July 1916 as the 2d Company, Fort Kamehameha [Hawaii]
- Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of Oahu
- Redesignated in February 1921 as the 2d Company, Coast Defenses of Pearl Harbor
- Redesignated 30 June 1922 as the 75th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery E, 7th Coast Artillery
- Inactivated 1 February 1940 at Fort DuPont, Delaware
- Activated 13 February 1941 at Fort Hancock, New Jersey
- Inactivated 13 April 1944 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas
- Disbanded 14 June 1944
- Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 26th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery A, 26th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, an element of the 24th Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 January 1953 as Battery A, 26th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 15 October 1957 in Korea
- (26th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion relieved 5 June 1958 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division)
- Consolidated 12 August 1958 with Battery E, 7th Field Artillery (organized in 1916), and consolidated unit redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Missile Battalion, 7th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion activated 1 September 1958 at Tappan, New York
- Redesignated 20 December 1965 as the 5th Battalion, 7th Artillery
- Inactivated 30 November 1968 at Tappan, New York
- Redesignated (less former Battery E, 7th Field Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery (former Battery E, 7th Field Artillery, concurrently redesignated as the 5th Battalion, 7th Field Artillery-hereafter separate lineage)
- 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery, activated 17 December 1988 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
- ANNEX
- Constituted 25 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Battery A, 784th Coast Artillery Battalion
- Activated 10 April 1943 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 30 April 1943 as Battery A, 784th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
- Inactivated 31 December 1945 in Germany
- Redesignated 13 October 1948 as Battery A, 26th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 20 March 1949 in Japan as an element of the 24th Infantry Division
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- England 1944
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- Southwest Asia
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- (Campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF KOREA
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1991-1992
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1995-1996
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2013-2014
- Belgian Fourragere 1940
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Liege
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered PYONGTAEK
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History