5th Battalion - 52nd Air Defense Artillery (PATRIOT)
The 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery, was reactivated on 16 September 1996 at Fort Bliss, TX.
The 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery, was organized on 6 July 1916 in the Regular Army at Fort Washington, MD. It reorganized and was redesignated on 6 July 1917 as Battery I, 9th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps. It was then reorganized and redesignated on 5 February 1918 as Battery I, 53rd Artillery. On 16 May 1921, it was inactivated at Fort Eustis, VA.
It was once again activated on 18 August 1921 at Fort Eustis, VA. It was additionally designated on 1 June 1922 as the 227th Company, Coast Artillery Corps; additional designation was abolished on 1 July 1924. It was redesignated on 1 July 1924 as Battery E, 52nd Coast Artillery.
The unit was redesignated and reorganized a number of additional times from 1 May 1943 to 5 June 1958. The unit was withdrawn on 18 May 1959 from the Regular Army and alloted to the Army Reserve; it was concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Automatic Weapons Battalion, 52nd Artillery. The unit was redesignated on 1 December 1971 as the Automatic Weapons Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery; and on 21 December 1975 as the 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery, at which point it was assigned to the 24th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Stewart, GA. It inactivated on 16 November 1988 at Fort Stewart, GA, and was relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division.
