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The 17th Cavalry Regiment is a historical organization within the United States Army that began as a regiment of cavalry after the Pancho Villa Expedition.The unit was constituted on 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 17th Cavalry at Fort Bliss, Texas [1] and originally inactivated 26 September 1921 at the Presidio of Monterey, California.
In 1972 B Troop, 7/17th Air Cavalry was redesignated H Troop, 17th Cavalry Regiment. At 02:30 on 26 January 1968 the camp was attacked by mortar fire and sappers from two companies of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 408th Sapper Battalion resulting in five UH-1 helicopters and one ammunition storage area destroyed.
2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment: South Vietnam, A Shau Valley: Gunner on an OH-6A hit by an RPG while on a hunter-killer mission. The accompanying UH-1C gunships saw no-one escape the burning wreckage [243] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] May 28: Urquhart, Paul D: Captain: US Army: 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment: South Vietnam ...
A horrific collision killed 33 soldiers and injured another 278 in 1950. Bob Jones, then 17, vividly recalls the disaster scene.
A Troop, 2nd Squadron, 9th Cavalry; 2nd Brigade. 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (DRF 2) 5th Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment; 3rd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (DRF 1) 6th Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment; A Battery, 2-62d ADA; B Company, 27th Engineer Battalion; B Company, 7th Medical Battalion; B Company, 707th Maintenance ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Troop H, 10th Cavalry Regiment (April 1972-February 1973) [3] 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment (1971-2) [2] 61st Aviation Company (November 1967-March 1972) [3]: 121 128th Assault Helicopter Company; 129th Assault Helicopter Company (October 1965-March 1973) [3]: 121 174th Assault Helicopter Company
The blast blew apart much of the adobe building. As the dust settled, the Marines could hear shouting and wailing. Their interpreter said, “They want to bring out the wounded.” And as the torn and bleeding bodies were dragged out, it became clear that the Taliban had herded women and children into the building as human shields.