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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.
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This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
2nd Infantry Division Artillery [1] was constituted on 21 September 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 2d Field Artillery Brigade. It was partially organized in October 1917 at Governors Island, New York, and assigned to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division); organization completed 1 January 1918 in France, consisting of the 12th, 15th and 17th Field Artillery ...
The first Dark Eagle hypersonic missiles delivered to the 5th Battalion/3rd Regiment in the 17th Field Artillery Brigade on October 2021 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state.
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Artillery Group, and the 17th and 537th Field Artillery Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 31 July 1959 as the 17th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. Redesignated 1 September as the 17th Field Artillery.
The battalion earned The Naval Unit Commendation for Valor for its outstanding performance in combat against the Iraqi army. Upon return to Ft Hood the battalion was inactivated. 1-3 FA Battalion was reactivated in 2022 as a HIMARS battalion under the 17th Field Artillery Brigade and is currently stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
Field Artillery Brigades are field artillery and rocket formations of the United States Army.They were previously named Fires Brigades for a short period. Fires Brigades were then either inactivated and reflagged as Division Artillery (DIVARTY) or reorganized and redesignated as Field Artillery Brigades.