4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment

4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Active 1821 – present
Country USA
Branch Army
Type Air defense artillery
Motto(s) "Nulli Vestigia Retrorsum" (No Step Backward)
Engagements Battle of Egan Station
Commanders
Notable
commanders		 Lt. Stephen H. Weed
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia

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, 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. B Battery, 4th Artillery was part of the Union Army's crack Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.

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.
(Battery C inactivated 31 July 1926 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;
Batteries B, C, and F activated 15 April 1932 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;
Battery E activated 1 February 1938 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone;
Battery O activated 15 March 1940 in the Canal Zone;
Batteries M and N activated 14 October 1940 in the Canal Zone;
Battery L activated 27 January 1941 in the Canal Zone)

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.

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)
Redesignated 31 July 1950 as the 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 16 June 1957 in England
Redesignated 13 March 1952 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
Activated 8 May 1952 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Redesignated 1 May 1953 as the 20th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 20 December 1957 at Phantom Lake, Washington
Redesignated 1 April 1951 as the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
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, 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, and inactivated 15 January 1958 at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska

Under the Combat Arms Regimental System (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 – hereafter separate lineage).

A battalion of the regiment, the 1st, later redesignated the 4th Missile Battalion (NH) 4th Artillery, 26th Artillery Group (AD) had its headquarters at Fort Lawton, Washington in the 1960s and early 1970s while operating Nike Hercules missiles as part of the US Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM).

HHB, 4th AntiAircraft Artillery Group

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

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.

Present day

The 3d Battalion (Air and Missile Defense), 4th ADA is a battalion under the 108th ADA Brigade at Fort Bragg. They have transitioned from SHORAD to a mixed Patriot and Avenger Battalion.

Honors

Campaign participation credit

War of 1812
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:[1]

  • 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
Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia;
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Decorations

Commemorations

A 4th U.S. Artillery Regimental Brass Band exits that depicts the regimental band during the Civil War.

See also

References

  1. ↑ p.97, Stanton

Sources

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Center of Military History document "4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment Lineage and Honors".

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