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Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
17th Fires Brigade

Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 September 2007

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
17th Fires Brigade Lineage

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 and redesignated 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 Germany

Reorganized and redesignated 17 July 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Fires Brigade

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
17th Fires Brigade Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006


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