7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment ( United States ) The 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1898 as the 7th Regiment of Artillery . History . The 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment traces its antecedants to 8 March 1898 in the Regular Army as Battery A , 7th Regiment of Artillery . It was organized on 29 March 1898 at Fort Slocum , New York . The Battery was reorganized and redesignated on 13 February 1901 as the 72nd Company , Coast Artillery , Artillery Corps . It was redesignated on 2 February 1907 as the 72nd Company , Coast Artillery Corps . The company was reorganized and redesignated in July 1916 as the 1st Company , Fort Screven , Georgia ) and on 31 August 1917 as the 1st Company , Coast Defenses of Savannah . The company was reorganized and redesignated on 1 June 1922 as the 72nd Company , Coast Artillery Corps and on 1 July 1924 as Battery A , 7th Coast Artillery . It was inactivated on 7 April 1930 at Fort Hancock , New Jersey . The company was reactivated on 1 July 1939 at Fort Hancock , New Jersey . It was inactivated on 7 April 1944 at Fort Leonard Wood , Missouri , before being disbanded entirely on 14 June 1944 . The company was reconstituted on 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army and concurrently consolidated with the lineage and honors of Battery A , 126th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion . Battery A , 126th Antiaircraft Gun Battalion had been first constituted on 25 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Battery A , 126th Coast Artillery Battalion and activated on 10 May 1943 at Camp Haan , California . It was reorganized and redesignated on 28 June 1943 as Battery A , 126th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion and inactivated on 3 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry , Virginia . The consolidated unit was redesignated as Battery A , 7th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion . The consolidated unit carried honors for participation in 6 campaigns during the Second World War : Normandy , Northern France , Rhineland , Ardennes - Alsace , Central Europe , and England 1944 . The unit was redesignated on 13 December 1951 as Battery A , 7th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion and activated on 20 December 1951 at Camp Edwards , Massachusetts . The unit deployed to Korea and participated in 8 campaigns of the Korean War : UN Defensive , UN Offensive , CCF Intervention , First UN Counteroffensive , CCF Spring Offensive , UN Summer - Fall Offensive , Second Korean Winter , and Korea , Summer 1953 . The unit was redesignated on 30 June 1955 as Battery A , 7th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion . It was inactivated on 1 September 1958 in Germany . The unit was concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 1st Howitzer Battalion , 7th Artillery ( active ) , which had been first organized in 1916 . The consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 1st Howitzer Battalion , 7th Artillery , an element of the 1st Infantry Division . The Battalion ' s organic elements were constituted on 8 February 1957 and activated on 15 February 1957 . The battalion subsequently deployed to Vietnam and participated in 11 campaigns of the conflict there : Defense , Counteroffensive , Counteroffensive Phase II , Counteroffensive Phase III , Tet Counteroffensive , Counteroffensive Phase IV , Counteroffensive Phase V , Counteroffensive Phase VI , Tet 69 / Counteroffensive , Summer - Fall 1969 , and Winter - Spring 1970 . The battalion was redesignated , less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 1st Howitzer Battalion , 7th Artillery on 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion , 7th Air Defense Artillery , and inactivated at Fort Riley , Kansas . The former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 1st Howitzer Battalion , 7th Artillery was concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Battalion , 7th Field Artillery , which thereafter had a separate lineage . 1st Battalion , 7th Air Defense Artillery was activated on 13 September 1972 at Fort Bliss , Texas and was inactivated there on 16 June 1987 . The Battalion was reactivated on 16 December 1988 in Germany . On 21 December 1998 , Headquarters US Army Europe ( USAREUR ) announced plans to realign its air defense artillery units to comply with the Army ' s Patriot Standardization Plan . As a result of the plan , USAREUR realigned its 3 Patriot missile battalions with their 12 missile batteries , 2 maintenance companies and one maintenance team into 2 battalions with 5 batteries and one maintenance company each . The 1 - 7th Air Defense Artillery , with its Headquarters and Headquarters Battery and B and C Batteries subsequently moved from Rhine Ordnance Barracks , Kaiserslautern , Germany , to Fort Bliss , Texas . There it joined the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade . In June 2006 , the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and 1 - 7th Air Defense Artillery moved to Fort Bragg , North Carolina . A gold metal and enamel device 1 1 / 8 inches ( 2 . 86 cm ) in height consisting of a panther in a walking position facing forward , with fire issuing horizontally from its mouth and ears , all gold ; all within and surmounting a continuous red scroll inscribed “ NULLIUS PAVET ” above and “ OCCURSUM ” below in gold letters . The insignia is worn in pairs . The panther is taken from the coat of arms of the Coast Defenses of Sandy Hook where the Regiment was organized on 1 July 1924 . The motto translates to “ He Fears No Encounter . ” The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 7th Coast Artillery Regiment on 31 July 1924 . It was redesignated for the 7th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion on 10 June 1952 . The insignia was cancelled on 20 April 1960 . It was restored and authorized effective 1 September 1971 , for the 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment . Gules , a pile voided Or crusilly fitchy of the like over all a Railway Gun in the act of firing Argent , flame Proper . On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules a panther passant guardant , incensed Or , flames Proper . Coat of arms . Blazon . Motto NULLIS PAVET OCCURSUM ( He Fears No Encounter ) . The shield is scarlet for Artillery . The cross crosslets fitchy , from the arms of the Lords of Commercy , refer to the baptism of fire of a battery of the regiment at Royanmoix , near Commercy , World War I . The pile is from the coat of arms of the 53d Artillery C . A . C . , elements of which were later amalgamated into the 7th Coast Artillery . The Railway Gun commemorates the unique distinctive of Battery “ E ” , 42d Artillery C . A . C . ( later Headquarters Battery , 7th Coast Artillery ) of firing the first shot in World War I by a Coast Artillery organization . The panther is taken from the coat of arms of the Coast Defenses of Sandy Hook where the Regiment was organized on 1 July 1924 . Background . The coat of arms was originally approved for the 7th Coast Artillery Regiment on 28 July 1924 . It was redesignated for the 7th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion on 10 June 1952 . The insignia was cancelled on 20 April 1960 . It was restored and authorized effective 1 September 1971 , for the 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment .