The history of the 62nd Air Defense Artillery spans two hundred years. The 1st Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment is the oldest unit in the 25th Infantry Division (Light) and has earned forty-seven campaign streamers and a Navy Presidential Unit Citation through the course of eight wars.

The 62nd Regiment traces its lineage to Captain Callendar Irvine's Company of Artillerists and Engineers, organized on 27 April 1798. Later the unit fought courageously as Captain James R. Hanham's Company in the War of 1812 earning its first letter designation and campaign streamer as Company K, Corps of Artillery, Northern Division. The unit added twenty-three more campaign streamers for service in the Mexican, Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars. After fighting in the war with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection, the Regiment was designated as the 62nd Coast Artillery Regiment on 14 September 1922.

On 7 July 1942, the Battalion entered World War II. Following a brief training period in the United Kingdom, the unit deployed to North Africa earning campaign credits for action in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia before deploying first to the Italian Campaign, then France, and finally Germany. The Battalion inactivated on 13 March 1946, but was soon raised on 15 January 1949 at Fort Bliss, Texas as the 62d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion and assigned to the 2d Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas. In November 1950, the Battalion was alerted for movement to Germany. A portion of the Battalion fought valiantly with the 50th AAA in support of 27th Infantry Regiment (Wolfhounds) in the Korean Conflict earning the Battalion's ten campaign streamers and a Presidential Unit Citation.

For seven years between 1959 and 1965, the 62nd served as a Nike-Hercules Missile unit in the St. Louis Defense Area. After a brief inactivation, the 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment was with two Battalions of Divisional Chaparral/Vulcan.

In 1995 the Battalions were rearmed with the Avenger system, the most advanced Light Air Defense weapon in the world. Both Battalions possess the Forward Area Air Defense Command, Control and Intelligence (FAAD C2I) allowing the Battalions to receive real time, digitized air threat data from a Joint source.

In June 1995, C Battery, 1-62 ADA was moved and reactivated, and is currently serving at Fort Lewis, Washington. 1st Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Regiment (the Regimental Headquarters) supports the 25th Infantry Division (Light), and is headquartered at Schofield Barracks, HI. 3rd Battalion, 62nd Air Defense supports the 10th Mountain Division and is headquartered at Fort Drum, NY.

In the summer of 2005 1st Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment was inactivated as part of the transformation of the 25th Infantry Division to the US Army's modular force structure. Some of its personnel were later used to activate the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, US Army Pacific.

October 18, 2011, the 1st Battalion 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment. was reactivated at Fort Hood Texas. Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Aaron J. Roth and Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Robert Navarro, 1-62 ADA is the 15th Patriot battalion to be added to the ADA force to maintain air and missile defense (AMD) operations around the world.