5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment ( United States ) The 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1861 as the 5th Regiment of Artillery . Lineage . On 4 May 1861 , in conformity with the proclamation of the President , a new regiment of 12 batteries was added to the artillery arm of service and became known as the Fifth of the series . Congress confirmed this act of the President , 12 July ( approved 29 July ) of the same year , but all appointments dated from 14 May . Differing in organization from the older regiments , the new one comprised only field batteries , being in this regard the first entire regiment so equipped in the Regular Army . But it must not be inferred that the Fifth was designated by law as a light artillery regiment . " Nowhere in the act of 29 July do the words ' field or light artillery ' occur , nevertheless , the batteries received the personnel belonging to field - artillery only . This , together with the other fact of the mounting , equipping and sending out as field artillery all the batteries , does not leave in doubt that Congress intended the Fifth to be a field artillery regiment . " Reconstituted 1 July 1924 in the Regular Army as the 5th Coast Artillery and partially activated with Headquarters at Fort Hamilton , New York . ( Batteries A and B activated 1 August 1940 and 15 January 1941 , respectively , at Fort Wadsworth , New York ; Battery D activated 15 January 1941 at Fort Hamilton , New York . . ) Regiment activated 19 April 1944 at Camp Rucker , Alabama , disbanded 26 June 1944 . 5th Coast Artillery reconstituted 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army ; regiment concurrently broken up and its elements redesignated as follows : Headquarters and Headquarters Battery consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 5th Antiaircraft Artillery Group ( active ) ( see Annex 1 ) , and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 5th Antiaircraft Artillery Group . 2nd Battalion consolidated with the 214th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion ( see Annex 2 ) and consolidated unit redesignated as the 24th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion . After 28 June 1950 the above units underwent changes as follows : Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 5th antiaircraft Artillery Group redesignated 20 March 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 5th Artillery Group . Inactivated 26 August 1960 at Camp Hanford , Washington . 24th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion redesignated 13 March 1952 as the 24th Antiaircraft Gun Battalion . Activated 16 April 1952 in Korea . Inactivated 20 December in Korea . Redesignated 23 May 1955 as the 24th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion . Activated 1 June 1955 at Fort Banks , Massachusetts . Inactive 1 September 1958 at Bedford , Massachusetts . Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 5th Artillery Group ; 24th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile battalion ; 1st Battalion , 5th coast Artillery ; and the 5th Field Artillery Battalion ( organized in 1907 ) consolidated , reorganized and redesignated 26 August 1960 as the 5th Artillery , a parent regiment under the combat Arms Regimental System . 5th Artillery ( less former 5th Field Artillery Battalion ) reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 5th Air Defense Artillery , a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System ( former 5th Field Artillery Battalion concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 5th Artillery – hereafter separate lineage ) . Withdrawn 16 November 1988 from the / combat Arms Regimental system and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental system with Headquarters at Fort Stewart , Georgia .