The 17th Field Artillery Brigade, "America's Premier HIMARS Brigade", is an artillery brigade in the United States Army. It is currently based in Joint Base Lewis McChord Washington as Force Fires Headquarters for I Corps.
17th Field Artillery Brigade
17th Field Artillery Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia
Active
19 August 1918 – 8 February 1919 19 January 1943 – 15 November 1945 22 January 1951 – 21 June 1975 21 September 1978—present
The 17th Field Artillery Brigade began as the 17th Field Artillery Brigade part of the 17th Division at Camp Bowie, Texas on 31 July 1918. It demobilized in February 1919 after World War I.
The 17th Field Artillery Brigade activated again at Fort Sill January 1943. During World War II the 17th Field Artillery Brigade participated in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe.
The 17th Field Artillery Brigade activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky 22 January 1951.
The unit was redesigned 21 March 1978 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Group.
The 17th Field Artillery deployed to Iraq from Fort Sill, OK in 2003 and again in 2005. In 2007 the 17th Field Artillery Brigade moved to Fort Lewis, Washington a renamed 17th Fires Brigade.
The 17th Fires Brigade deployed to the Basra Province in the summer of 2009.
The unit was designated as a subordinate unit to 7th Infantry Division, 1 October 2012
The 1st Battalion, 377th Field Artillery Regiment was officially inactivated February 2014.
For the purpose of standardizing, the 17th Fires Brigade was officially renamed 17th Field Artillery Brigade on 19 February 2014.
Lineage and honorsedit
Lineageedit
Constituted 31 July 1918 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 17th Field Artillery Brigade, and assigned to the 17th Division
Organized 19 August 1918 at Camp Bowie, Texas
Demobilized 8 February 1919 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Reconstituted 12 October 1936 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Brigade (constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Brigade
Activated 19 January 1943 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Reorganized, redesignated, and joined 13 March 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, VII Corps Artillery
Inactivated 15 November 1945 at Fort Ord, California
Activated 22 January 1951 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Inactivated 21 June 1975 in Germany
Redesignated 21 March 1978 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Brigade
Activated 21 September 1978 in Augsburg, Germany
Reorganized and redesignated 17 July 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Fires Brigade[1]
Campaign participation creditedit
World War II: Normandy Campaign (with arrowhead); Northern France Campaign; Rhineland Campaign; Ardennes-Alsace Campaign; Central Europe Campaign
^ abc"Lineage and Honors Information: Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Fires Brigade." U.S. Army Center for Military History. 13 September 2007. Web. Accessed 8 November 2015. <http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/fa/0017firebrig.htm Archived 12 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine>. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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