17th Field Artillery Regiment

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17th Field Artillery Regiment
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Coat of arms
Active1916
Country Flag of the United States.svg
BranchFlag of the United States Army.svg  United States Army
Type USA - Army Field Artillery Insignia.svg Field artillery
Role USARS parent regiment
Size regiment
Motto(s)In Time of Peace Prepare For War
Engagements World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam
Southwest Asia
Insignia
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The 17th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1916.

Contents

History

The 17th Field Artillery was constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army at Camp Robinson, Wisconsin.

Current Status of Regimental Elements

Lineage and honors

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery on 1 March 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Group.
1st Battalion on 1 March 1944 as the 17th Field Artillery Battalion.
2d Battalion on 14 February 1944 as the 630th Field Artillery Battalion.
After 1 March 1944 the above units underwent changes as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Field Artillery Group, inactivated 27 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
Activated 20 December 1948 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Redesignated 25 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Artillery Group.
17th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 16 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Inactivated 1 June 1958 in Korea.
630th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 22 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 537th Field Artillery Battalion.
Activated 1 October 1948 at Camp Carson, Colorado.
Inactivated 25 June 1958 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Campaign participation credit

Decorations

Heraldry

Distinctive unit insignia

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Coat of arms

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Shield: Gules, a conventionalized castle of Ehrenbreitstein with ramp Or on mount Proper, debruised by a bendlet Argent bearing two ribbons of the field and Azure with seventeen mullets of the last. A sinister canton bendy of eight ermine and of the field, (for the 8th Field Artillery). Crest: On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules, a mount Argent garnished Vert, bearing a linden leaf Proper charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first. Motto: IN TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR.

Shield: The field of the shield is red, the artillery color. The principal charge is the castle of Ehrenbreitstein debruised by a bendlet carrying the American colors and seventeen stars, to signify the occupation of that castle by the 17th Field Artillery. On a canton is a device from the arms of the parent organization. Crest: The crest commemorates the two most noteworthy battle incidents. The white mountain is for Blanc Mont. The leaf is taken from Verte Feuille Farm, one of the positions occupied by the Regiment in the Soissons Offensive; the linden was chosen as being very common in the central empires. The fleur-de-lis is from the arms of Soissons.

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References

  1. 1 2 "17th Field Artillery Regiment". The Institute of Heraldry, The Pentagon. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .