3d Battalion
17th Field Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 November 2009
3d Battalion
17th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery C, 17th Field Artillery
Organized 6 June 1917 at Camp Robinson, Wisconsin
(17th Field Artillery assigned 21 September 1917 to the 2d Division; relieved
18 December 1920 from assignment to the 2d Division; assigned 22 July 1929 to the 1st Division; relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 1st Division and assigned to the 2d Division; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 2d Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1944 as Battery C, 17th Field Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 16 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Redesignated 24 January 1948 as Battery B, 17th Field Artillery Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Head�quarters Battery, 3d Howitzer Battalion, 17th Artillery (organic elements constituted 1 June 1958 and activated 25 June 1958)
Redesignated 24 March 1964 as the 3d Battalion, 17th Artillery
Redesignated 1 Septem�ber 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 17th Field Artillery
Inactivated 31 March 1983 in Germany
Activated 16 July 1988 in Germany
Inactivated 15 May 1995 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 3d Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
Activated 17 April 2007 at Fort Lewis, Washington and assigned to the 5th Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division
3d Battalion
17th Field Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: *Aisne; *Aisne-Marne; *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1918; *Ile de France 1918
World War II: **Tunisia; *Sicily (with arrowhead); *Naples-Foggia; *Rome-Arno; *Southern France; *Rhineland; *Ardennes-Alsace; *Central Europe
Korean War: *UN Defensive; *UN Offensive; *CCF Intervention; *First UN Counteroffensive; *CCF Spring Offensive; *UN Summer-Fall Offensive; *Second Korean Winter; *Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; *Third Korean Winter; *Korea, Summer 1953
Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON
*Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ 1991
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE
*French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere
*French Croix de Guerre with Silver Gilt Star, World War II for ROME-ARNO
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1952