The battalion was last active as a HAWK unit subordinate to the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Lewis, Washington until 1993.

The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 22 July 1917 as Battery A, 7th Provisional Regiment (Coast Artillery Corps) and deployed to France for World War I.

With the outbreak of World War II, the unit was deployed to Honolulu, Hawai'i in December 1941.

The unit was activated again on 22 March 1951 at Camp Carson, Colorado and relocated to West Germany where it was inactivated on 01 June 1958.

The unit was redesignated on 12 August 1958 as the 1st Missile Battalion, 52nd Artillery Regiment and activated on 01 September 1958 at Camp Hanford, Washington as a Nike Ajax battalion subordinate to the Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM).