17th Field Artillery Regiment Battalions
Modern Era, United States, Field Artillery
This page collects the existing battalion illustrations and additional documented historical battalions of the 17th Field Artillery Regiment. The historical entries include inactive units and earlier designations; the regimental image identifies entries without a battalion-specific illustration.
1st Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 1st Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
2d Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 2d Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
3d Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 3d Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
4th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 4th Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
5th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 5th Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
6th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
The 6th Howitzer Battalion, 17th Artillery, was activated in the Army Reserve on 1 April 1959, with headquarters at Bogalusa, Louisiana. It was inactivated there on 25 February 1963.
The battalion received its field artillery designation in September 1971. Its name was shortened to 6th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, on 1 September 2003; the Army's published lineage lists it as inactive. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 662.
7th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
The 7th Howitzer Battalion, 17th Artillery, was activated at Fort Benning on 2 May 1960 as an element of the 2d Infantry Division. It became the 7th Battalion in January 1963.
Redesignated as the 7th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, in September 1971, it was inactivated in Korea on 13 September 1972 and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 664.
8th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment
The 8th Battalion, 17th Artillery, was activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on 1 August 1967. Its organic elements were formed during the same year's expansion.
The battalion was inactivated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on 30 June 1971. Its lineage was redesignated as the 8th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, on 1 September 1971. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 666.
Research note: The added historical entries cite their sources individually. Regimental illustrations are labeled as such. An earlier battalion designation can continue through another battalion or a separate battery; these relationships are identified in the entries. These additions follow Janice E. McKenney, Field Artillery (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2010), Parts 1 and 2. The published lineages principally cover developments through 2003; they are not a current order of battle. The original five symbol cards retain their links to individual reference pages.