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The battalion is part of 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and the 32nd Army Air & Missile Defense Command (32nd AAMDC). The battalion consists of a Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB), four Patriot missile batteries (A/5-52, B/5-52, C/5-52, and D/5-52) and a maintenance company (E Company, formerly the 507th Maintenance Company).
The 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense artillery regiment of the United States Army first organized in 1917 as a railway gun unit. It continued in that role unit 1943, when the regiment was broken in separate railway gun battalions, and in the following year the units were reorganized and redesignated as field artillery.
The 507th Maintenance Company provided maintenance support to 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery, a Patriot missile unit based at Fort Bliss, Texas.Previously, it was assigned to 2d Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, another Patriot missile unit at Fort Bliss which played a major support role in the Persian Gulf War.
After the 52nd Infantry Regiment's activation in 1917, the regiment was assigned to the Sixth Infantry Division.The Sixth Division was organized in November 1917 as a square division consisting of the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, and the 54th Infantry Regiments, the 16th, 17th and 18th Machine-Gun Battalions and the 3rd, 11th and 78th Field Artillery Regiments.
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. [1]
The 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) is one of three explosive ordnance disposal groups of the United States Army.It is the command and control headquarters for all U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) battalions and companies located east of the Mississippi River in the Continental United States (CONUS).
Delta Company (Old Dukes) [5] Echo Company (Eagle Support) [6] Fox Company (Arctic Owls) [7] – Afghanistan Mar 2014 – Nov 2014; 2nd Battalion (Constituted in the Regular Army 16 January 1996 as the 2nd Battalion, 52nd Aviation, and activated in the Republic of Korea)
Johnson was a Specialist of the U.S. Army 507th Maintenance Company, 5/52 ADA BN, 11th ADA Brigade. During the Battle of Nasiriyah, she suffered bullet wounds to both of her ankles and was captured by Iraqi forces. She was held prisoner in Iraq for 22 days along with five other members of her unit.