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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.
Biggs Army Airfield, Fort Bliss, Texas 4th Heavy Attack Reconnaissance Squadron: 16th Combat Aviation Brigade: N/A: Gray Army Airfield, Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington "Seek and Destroy" 6th Squadron: 10th Combat Aviation Brigade: 10th Mountain Division: Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield, Fort Drum, New York "Six Shooters" 17th Cavalry
In June 2006 the 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment was reflagged from 3d Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, flying OH-58D Kiowa Warrior light reconnaissance helicopters and relocated from Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii to Fort Wainwright.
Wheeler AAF comprises approximately 1,389 acres (5.62 km 2) of land adjacent to Schofield Barracks and is home to a variety of Department of Defense activities including the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron (169 ACWS) of the Hawaii Air National Guard, the 193rd Aviation Regiment (Medium Lift), Detachment 55 Operational Support Airlift ...
On 1 July 1968, at Camp Eagle in the Republic of Vietnam, the 160th Aviation Group was constituted with elements of the 2d Squadron, 17th Cavalry; the 101st Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); the 158th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); and the 159th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter). Less than a year later, on 25 June 1969 ...
Initially named as Operation Wheeler and Wallowa, this was merged in November 1967 as Wheeler/Wallowa. [2] The operation was at first conducted by the 101st Airborne Division and 1st Cavalry Division, but it was progressively taken over by 23rd Infantry (Americal) Division. Some of the Tiger Force killings took place during the operation.
Following B-52 strikes and tactical airstrikes on the PAVN Base Area 611 in the Laotian Salient, the ARVN Hac Bao Reconnaissance Company of the 1st Division supported by the 2nd Squadron, 17th Air Cavalry was landed in the area. The Hac Bao found 85 PAVN dead and 18 destroyed weapons. That night vehicles were heard moving to the south and ...
Holloway Airfield, 13 April 1966. Camp Holloway was established in 1962. It was located along Route 19 approximately 3km east of Pleiku in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The camp was named in 1963 for Piasecki CH-21 helicopter pilot Warrant Officer Charles E. Holloway, who in December 1962 became the first aviator assigned to the 81st Transportation Company to be killed in action.