2nd Battalion , 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment ( United States ) The 2nd Battalion , 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment is a battalion in the 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment , a regiment in the United States Army , first formed in 1812 . Lineage . Constituted 11 January 1812 in the Regular Army as a company in the 3d Regiment of Artillery Organized in July 1812 at Fort Columbus , New York , as Captain Ichabod B . Crane ' s Company , 3d Regiment of Artillery Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1814 as Captain Ichabod B . Crane ' s Company , Corps of Artillery Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Captain Ichabod B . Crane ' s Company , Corps of Artillery , Northern Division Redesignated 17 June 1816 as Company D , 2d Battalion , Corps of Artillery , Northern Division Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1821 as Company B , 1st Regiment of Artillery Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 2d Company , Coast Artillery , Artillery Corps Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 2d Company , Coast Artillery Corps Reorganized and redesignated 18 July 1916 as the 1st Company , Fort Ruger Hawaii Reorganized and redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 11th Company , Coast Defenses of Oahu Redesignated in February 1921 as the 4th Company , Coast Defenses of Honolulu Redesignated 30 June 1922 as the 2d Company , Coast Artillery Corps Inactivated 1 July 1922 in Hawaii Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery B , 1st Coast Artillery Activated 1 June 1926 at Fort Randolph ( Panama ) , Canal Zone Inactivated 31 July 1926 at Fort Randolph , Canal Zone Activated 15 April 1932 at Fort Randolph , Canal Zone Inactivated 30 March 1941 at Fort Sherman , Canal Zone Activated 17 April 1942 at Fort Sherman , Canal Zone Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1944 as Battery B , 1st Coast Artillery Battalion Disbanded 1 February 1946 at Fort Sherman , Canal Zone Reconstituted 21 June 1950 in the Regular Army as Battery B , 1st Coast Artillery ; concurrently redesignated as Battery B , 1st Antiaircraft Battalion Redesignated 17 March 1955 as Battery B , 1st Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion Activated 15 April 1955 at Irwin , Pennsylvania Redesignated 26 October 1956 as Battery B , 74th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion Inactivated 1 September 1958 at Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 2d Howitzer Battalion , 1st Artillery ( active ) ( organized in 1901 ) , and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 2d Howitzer Battalion , 1st Artillery , an element of the 4th Infantry Division ( organic elements constituted and activated 1 April 1957 ) 2d Howitzer Battalion , 1st Artillery , inactivated 1 October 1963 at Fort Lewis , Washington , and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division Redesignated 14 July 1966 as the 2d Battalion , 1st Artillery Activated 25 August 1966 at Fort Sill , Oklahoma Redesignated ( less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 2d Howitzer Battalion , 1st Artillery ) 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion , 1st Air Defense Artillery , and inactivated at Fort Sill , Oklahoma ( former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 2d Howitzer Battalion , 1st Artillery , concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 2d Battalion , 1st Field Artillery – hereafter separate lineage ) 2d Battalion , 1st Air Defense Artillery , activated 13 September 1972 in McCully Barracks , Mainz - Wackerheim , Germany Inactivated 30 June 1983 in Germany Activated 16 June 1987 at Fort Bliss , Texas Inactivated 15 September 1994 at Fort Bliss , Texas Activated 4 May 1996 at Fort Lewis , Washington Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion , 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment Campaign participation credit . " < nowiki > * < / nowiki > signifies that the unit has an Earned Credit for that campaign " War of 1812 : * Canada Indian Wars : * Seminoles ; Texas 1859 Mexican War : * Palo Alto ; * Resaca de la Palma ; Monterey ; * Vera Cruz ; * Cerro Gordo ; * Contreras ; * Churubusco ; * Chapultepec ; * Tamaulipas 1846 ; * Vera Cruz 1847 ; * Mexico 1847 Civil War : Sumter ; Bull Run ; Mississippi River ; Peninsula ; Manassas ; Antietam ; Fredericksburg ; Chancellorsville ; Gettysburg ; Wilderness ; Spotsylvania ; * Cold Harbor ; * Petersburg ; Shenandoah ; * Appomattox ; Florida 1861 ; Florida 1862 ; * Florida 1864 ; * South Carolina 1862 ; * South Carolina 1863 ; Virginia 1863 ; * Virginia 1864 ; West Virginia 1863 ; Louisiana 1864 World War II : * American Theater , Streamer without inscription ; Tunisia ; Sicily ; Rome - Arno ; Rhineland Southwest Asia : * Defense of Saudi Arabia ; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait ; * Cease - Fire War on Terrorism : Campaigns to be determined