4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (United States)

The 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment was constituted 1 June 1821 in the Regular Army as the 4th Regiment of Artillery and organized from new and existing units with Headquarters at Pensacola

Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...

, Florida. As a result of the division of the Artillery Corps into the Coast, and Field Artillery Corps, the Regiment was broken up 13 February 1901, and its elements reorganized and redesignated as separate numbered companies and batteries of the Artillery Corps.

Early lineage

Constituted 1 June 1821 in the Regular Army as the 4th Regiment of Artillery and organized from new and existing units with Headquarters at Pensacola, Florida

Regiment broken up 13 February 1901 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as separate numbered companies and batteries of Artillery Corps

4th Coast Artillery Regiment

The regiment was reconstituted on the 1 July 1924 in the Regular Army as the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment. As a result of inter-war reductions in military appropriations, the following reductions and increases in the force levels affected this regiment:

Activated (less Batteries B, E, and F) 18 August 1924 in the Canal Zone

Panama Canal Zone

The Panama Canal Zone was a unorganized U.S. territory located within the Republic of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending 5 miles on each side of the centerline, but excluding Panama City and Colón, which otherwise would have been partly within the limits of...

The Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery) was disbanded 3 October 1944 in the Canal Zone. Afterwards, the regiment underwent more changes with its Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Coast Artillery Regiment, reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Coast Artillery Group. The remainder of the regimental assets were used to organize the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion.

Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery) reconstituted 12 October 1944 in the Regular Army, concurrently consolidated with the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion (constituted 3 October 1944 in the Army of the United States) and consolidated unit designated as the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion;

Activated 1 November 1944 in the Canal Zone

Disbanded (less Batteries A and D) 1 February 1946 in the Canal Zone (Batteries A and D concurrently redesignated as Batteries A and D, Harbor Defenses of Balboa;

inactivated 15 January 1947 and 15 May 1950, respectively, in the Canal Zone) 4th Coast Artillery Battalion (less Batteries A and D) :reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently, battalion and Batteries A and D, Harbor Defenses of Balboa, redesignated as the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment (less Headquarters and Headquarters Battery)

Remainder of the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment reorganized 28 June 1951 as follows:
1st Battalion consolidated with the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) (see below) and consolidated unit designated as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion

Redesignated 31 July 1950 as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 16 June 1957 in England

2d Battalion redesignated as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Redesignated 13 March 1952 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion

Activated 8 May 1952 at Fort Lewis

Fort Lewis

Joint Base Lewis-McChord is a United States military facility located south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Joint Base Garrison, Joint Base Lewis-McChord....

, Washington

Redesignated 1 May 1953 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 20 December 1957 at Phantom Lake, Washington

3d Battalion redesignated as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Redesignated 1 April 1951 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion and activated at Fort Stewart

Fort Stewart

Fort Stewart is a census-designated place and U.S. Army post primarily in Liberty County and Bryan County, but also extending into smaller portions of Evans, Long, and Tattnall Counties in Georgia, USA. The population was 11,205 at the 2000 census...

, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

Redesignated 3 August 1953 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion

Redesignated 22 March 1955 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion

Inactivated 1 September 1958 at Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 50,193, down from the 55,593 recorded in the 2000 census. It is across the Niagara River from Niagara Falls, Ontario , both named after the famed Niagara Falls which they...

, New York

4th Coast Artillery Battalion

As the 4th Coast Artillery Battalion, it was reorganized and redesignated 2 January 1945 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Harbor Defenses of Balboa, but was inactivated on 15 January 1947 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone.

4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group

Consolidated again on 28 June 1950 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group (see below), the regiment was again consolidated as a unit and designated as the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group activated 1 September 1951 at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

, and inactivated 15 January 1958 at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska

Alaska

Under the Combat Arms Regimental System

U.S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System

The Combat Arms Regimental System , was the method of assigning unit designations to units of the five combat arms of the United States Army from 1957 to 1981. CARS was superseded by the U.S...

(CARS) the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group was consolidated and reorganized to include:

4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion;

20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion;

44th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion;

4th Air Defense Artillery

The 4th Field Artillery Battalion (organized in 1907) consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 1958 as the 4th Artillery Regiment, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. The 4th Artillery Regiment (less former 4th Field Artillery Battalion) was again reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 4th Air Defense Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System (former 4th Field Artillery Battalion concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 4th Field Artillery Regiment

4th Field Artillery Regiment (United States)

The 4th Field Artillery Regiment is an Field Artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1907.-History:The 4th Field Artillery Regiment was first activated in 1907 from numbered companies of artillery...

– hereafter separate lineage)

Withdrawn 13 September 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System.

HHB, 4th AntiAircraft Artillery Group

Constituted 5 August 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Group
Activated 24 August 1942 at Camp Stewart, Georgia
Group deployed 7 February 1943 for North Africa.
Arrived in North Africa on 21 February 1943, and landed on Sicily during August 1943, and moved on to Italy on 26 October 1943.
Redesignated 1 May 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Group
Inactivated 9 December 1944 at Barberino, Italy, with the assets and personnel reassigned to the 1168th Combat Engineer Group.
Reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army

3/95th Coast Artillery Regiment (AA)(Semimobile)

Constituted 16 December 1940 in the Regular Army as the 95th Coast Artillery Regiment.
Activated 17 April 1941 at Camp Davis, North Carolina
Regiment Staged at Fort McDowell, California on 21 December 1941
Regiment deployed to Hawaii from the San Francisco, Port Of Embarkation on 26 December 1941, and arrived in Hawaii on 7 January 1942.
Regiment reorganized and redesignated 12 December 1943 as follows:

1/95th CAR became the 93rd AAA Gun Battalion, thereafter separate lineage.

2/95th CAR became the 752nd AAA Gun Battalion, thereafter separate lineage.

3/95th CAR became the 866th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion.

Battalion arrived on the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

on 20 October 1944.
Battalion arrived on Okinawa on 26 April 1945, where it remained into the Occupation period.
Inactivated 30 September 1946 in the Philippine Islands
Redesignated 13 October 1948 as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Activated 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. With an area of about , it is the Army's second-largest installation behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range. It is FORSCOM's largest installation, and has the Army's largest Maneuver Area behind the...

, Texas

Present day

The 3rd Battalion (Air and Missile Defense), 4th ADA is a battalion under the 108th ADA Brigade

108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States)

The mission of the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade is an air defense artillery brigade of the United States Army. The mission of the brigade is to train and maintain a strategic crisis response air defense artillery brigade capable of deploying worldwide, on short notice, to provide air defense...

at Fort Bragg

Fort Bragg (North Carolina)

Fort Bragg is a major United States Army installation, in Cumberland and Hoke counties, North Carolina, U.S., mostly in Fayetteville but also partly in the town of Spring Lake. It was also a census-designated place in the 2010 census and had a population of 39,457. The fort is named for Confederate...

. They have transitioned from SHORAD

Short Range Air Defense

Short Range Air Defense is a term used to describe a group of anti-aircraft weapons and tactics that have to do with defense against low-altitude air threats, primarily helicopters and low-flying close air support aircraft such as the A-10 or MiG-27...

to a mixed Patriot

MIM-104 Patriot

The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations. It is manufactured by the Raytheon Company of the United States. The Patriot System replaced the Nike Hercules system as the U.S. Army's primary High to Medium...

and Avenger

M1097 Avenger

The Avenger Air Defense System, designated AN/TWQ-1 under the Joint Electronics Type Designation System, is a missile system which provides mobile, short-range air defense protection for ground units against cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, low-flying fixed-wing aircraft, and helicopters...

Battalion.

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5th Battalion 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (United States)
A Battery 4th ADA is a THAAD
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense , formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is a United States Army system to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill approach. The missile carries no warhead but relies on the kinetic energy...

unit.

Campaign participation credit

War of 1812:

Louisiana 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

World War II:

American Theater, Streamer without inscription;
Tunisia;
Sicily;
Naples-Foggia;
Rome-Arno;
Leyte;
Ryukyus

Vietnam
2nd (105mm howitzers, towed), 5th (155mm howitzers, self-propelled) and 8th Battalions (175mm gun, self-propelled), 4th Artillery:

Counteroffensive, Phase II;
Counteroffensive, Phase III;
Tet Counteroffensive;
Counteroffensive, Phase IV;
Counteroffensive, Phase V;
Counteroffensive, Phase VI;
Tet 69/Counteroffensive;
Summer-Fall 1969;
Winter-Spring 1970;
Sanctuary Counteroffensive;
Counteroffensive, Phase VII;
Consolidation I

Armed Forces Expeditions

Grenada

Southwest Asia:

Defense of Saudi Arabia;
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967
Valorous Unit Award for SAIGON
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968–1969
Army Superior Unit Award for 1987

Commemorations

A 4th U.S. Artillery Regimental Brass Band exits that depicts the regimental band during the Civil War.http://4thartillerybrassband.com/

Sources

Stanton, Shelby L., Vietnam Order of Battle: A Complete Illustrated Reference to US Army, Stackpole Books, 2003

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