17th Artillery Regiment

17th Artillery Regiment Association

Gulf Wars

 

S-4 1/17th FA 1995

L to R CW3 Tom Stubblefield, Spc Mike Elam, Bottom Sgt Joel Thoreson, Spc Gibson

 

Iraq – 1/17th

MAJ Chenoweth reading a FRAGO in private, or so he thought

SSG Spargo having chow in the DFAC

Chaplain (CPT) Franklin sorting soldiers mail

CPL Kang on litter, while SPC Dotey and PFC Pierce conducting casualty assessment exercise.

SPC Ko processing mid-tour leave forms

PAC Martin sorting mail for delivery to the batteries

SGT(P) Carmen inventorying and sorting DCUs for Issue to the battery

C 1-17th, , 5th section preparing for combat at Camp Uhdari Kuwait.

CPT Beaird former C 1-17th Commander and 1SG Pepin at Tigris River

CPL Salinas and SPC Kula the Commander’s and 1SG’s drivers at Tigris River

10rev.JPG (32808 bytes) 1SG Pepin at the ALOC/BSOC meeting with the Bn XO(Maj Owen) at BMO (CW2 Baker).

LTC Price giving the soldiers of C 1-17th and operational update at K-2 airfield

Maj Gerber, CPT Walker, 1SG Pepin, Col Nazim together at a picnic.

CPT Walker reenlisting SSG Bryant at Camp Wyatt.

1SG Pepin, CSM Werkhieser and CSM Bronson at the border crossing gate between Iraq and Iran.

CPT Walker, CSM Werkhieser, LTC Price enjoying a meal at a local family home.

1st Bn, 17th FA Commanders at the 4th ID patch ceremony at Tikrit, Iraq.

SPC Zunich awaiting SP from Camp Warhorse

main2rev.jpg (21241 bytes) SPC Wilkerson assists PFC Therrien fix his vehicle lights

maint1rev.jpg (25434 bytes) SPC(P) Semien repairing water pump in SGT Davenports vehicle

 

Alpha Battery

Checking Equipment

Test Firing Howitzer

Test Firing Howitzer

Loading Howitzer on Lowboy

Loading M88

Destroyed Missile Launcher

A 1-17th on Line

Passing Time

On Guard Duty at Outpost

 

Bravo Battery

Howitzers on Line

Howitzer Firing

Suspects

Down Time

On Line

Laundromat?

Bravo on Line

Bravo CP

Bravo CP FDC?

 

Charlie Battery

Stephen Wyatt's KIA Memorial

Stephen Wyatt's KIA Memorial

Cougar 1/17th at Camp Carpenter

C Battery Cougars

1st 17th Sign

 

Service Battery

View of Base

View of Base

Trailing Howitzer

Vietnam

Trailing FDC

Maintenance

in the Mud

 

HHB

Chinook

Ammo Carrier

Captured Arms

Local transportation

Preparing to Destroy Missile

Captured Ordnance

Camels

Captured Currency

Iraq "Toll Booth"

Captured Small Arms

4 I.D. Ceremony

Destroyed Armor

 

Operation Iraqi Freedom 08-09, Battery C, 1st Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, COB Adder, Tallil, Iraq

At A4 Range November 08

Convoy escort vehicles

2nd Platoon, C 1/17

Convoy January, 2009

Convoy January, 2009

Layout

L-R SPC Gantt, SGT Chandler, SGT Bailey, SPC Jolly

Ruins

Ready to go

sand storm

Sand storm

Sgts Elcarria and King

SPC Nelson manning 50 Cal

June 7th SB run

Koerber and Reynolds

 

3rd Bn 17th FAR, 5th SBCT, 2nd ID (2009-2010)

 

Copperheads 1st/17th return to Fort Sill
Photos courtesy of Richard Jones

Banner in Memory of PFC Wyatt

Colonel Thomas Vandal welcomes his troops home

Copperheads in a moment of prayer

L-R SPC Carlos Ruiz, SPC Jamel Oliver, PFC Justin Blankton

Crowd awaiting arrival of Copperheads

Cpl. Will McDonald & wife Michelle

SGT Shayne Rutherford & wife Emily

Troops finally marching into the hanger

Welcome home Task Force for 17FA Copperheads, L-R Claudia Fisher, Emily Rutherford, Michelle McDaniel

Brigadier General David P. Valcourt welcomes the troops home