17th Field Artillery Regiment
| 17th Field Artillery Regiment | |
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| Active | 1916 |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch | Army |
| Type | Field artillery |
| Motto(s) | In Time of Peace Prepare For War |
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World War I World War II Korean War Vietnam Southwest Asia |
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The 17th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1916.
The 17th Field Artillery was constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army at Camp Robinson, Wisconsin.
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 17th Field Artillery
Organized 6 June 1917 at Camp Robinson, Wisconsin.
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.
Regiment broken up 14 February - 1 March 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
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.
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.
Withdrawn 16 July 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System.
A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height consisting of a shield blazoned: 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).
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