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5th Battalion, 3d Air Defense Artillery ("Sun
Dragons")
Combat-attached during Operation Desert Storm
Constituted 9 May 1794 in the Regular Army as the 4th Company, 2d Battalion,
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Organized in August 1794 at West Point, New York, as Capt.
Donald G. Mitchell's 4th Company, 2d Battalion, Corps of Artillerists and
Engineers
Redesignated 27 April 1798 as Capt. Donald G. Mitchell's
Company, 3d Battalion, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 6 August 1798 as Capt. Nehemiah Freeman's Company,
3d Battalion, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Redesignated 1 April 1802 as Capt. Richard S. Blackburn's
Company, Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 30 April 1803 as Capt. John Saunder's Company,
Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 3 June 1809as Capt. William Wilson's Company,
Regiment of Artillerists
Redesignated 11 January 1812 as Capt. William Wilson's Company,
1st Regiment of Artillery
Redesignated 29 February 1812 as Capt. Hannibal M. Allen's
Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery
Redesignated 16 August 1813 as Capt. Hopley Yeaton's Company,
1st Regiment of Artillery
Redesignated 12 May 1814 as Capt. Hopley Yeaton's Company, Corps
of Artillery
Redesignated 17 May 1815 as Capt. Hopley Yeaton's Company, Corps
of Artillery, Southern Division
Redesignated 21 August 1816 as Company K, 2d Battalion, Corps of
Artillery, Southern Division
Redesignated 1 August 1821 as Company D, 3d Regiment of
Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 27th
Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps
Redesignated 2 February 1907 as the 27th Company, Coast
Artillery Corps
Redesignated in July 1916 as the 7th Company, Fort Winfield
Scott [California]
Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 4th Separate Antiaircraft
Battery
Disbanded 22 January 1919 at Fort Totten, New York
Reconstituted 1 June 1922 in the Regular Army; concurrently
consolidated with the 3d Company, Coast Defenses of Los Angeles (active)
(organized 1 February 1918 at Los Angeles), and consolidated unit redesignated
as the 27th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1924 as Battery D, 3d Coast
Artillery
Inactivated 1 February 1940 at Fort Rosecrans, California
Activated 2 December 1940 at Fort MacArthur, California
Inactivated 1 October 1942 at Fort MacArthur, California
Disbanded 18 October 1944
Reconstituted 27 February 1950 in the Regular Army; concurrently
consolidated with Battery D, 3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons
Battalion (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Battery D,
3d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, an element of the 3d
Infantry Division
Redesignated 15 April 1953 as Battery D, 3d Antiaircraft
Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved
from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
Redesignated 12 August 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters
Battery, 5th Missile Battalion, 3d Artillery (organic elements concurrently
constituted)
Battalion activated 1 September 1958 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Missile Battalion,
3d Artillery, consolidated 1 January 1960 with Battery D, 3d Field Artillery
[organized in 1798], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and
Headquarters Battery, 5th Missile Battalion, 3d Artillery)
Inactivated 18 October 1963 at Oakdale, Pennsylvania
Redesignated 24 November 1967 as the 5th Battalion, 3d
Artillery, assigned to the 6th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort
Campbell, Kentucky
Inactivated 24 July 1968 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and
relieved from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division
Redesignated (less former Battery D, 3d Field Artillery) 1
September 1971 as the 5th Battalion, 3d Air Defense Artillery (former Battery D,
3d Field Artillery, concurrently redesignated as the 5th Battalion, 3d Field
Artillery--Hereafter separate lineage)
Assigned in 1989 to the 8th Infantry Division and activated in
Germany using personnel and equipment from the 1st Battalion, 59th Air Defense
Artillery
Relieved 17 January 1992 from assignment to the 8th Infantry
Division and assigned to the 1st Armored Division
Inactivated 16 February 1997 in Germany and relieved from
assignment to the 1st Armored Division with all personnel and equipment being
transferred to the 1st Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery
ANNEX
Constituted 6 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as
Battery D, 534th Coast Artillery Battalion
Activated 15 July 1942 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Redesignated 12 December 1943 as Battery D, 534th Antiaircraft
Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
Inactivated 19 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
Redesignated 9 December 1948 as Battery D, 3d Antiaircraft
Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, and allotted to the Regular Army
Activated 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss, Texas, as an element of
the 3d Infantry Division
NOTE: 5-3 ADA deployed with 3d Armored Division to Operation Desert
Shield/ Storm in place of 3-5 ADA which was in the process of inactivating when
the division was ordered to deploy.
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