Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Japan | 09.20.2019
U.S. Army and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers are learning valuable lessons from each other during the bilateral field exercise Orient Shield 19 in Japan, Sept. 5-24, 2019. OS 19 is a premier U.S. Army and JGSDF bilateral field training exercise that is meant to increase interoperability by testing and refining multi-domain and cross-domain concepts....
Story by Staff Sgt. Jacob Kohrs | 17th Field Artillery Brigade | 01.24.2019
On Jan. 24, the soldiers of 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery, 17th Field Artillery Brigade performed a physically and mentally challenging, combat focused, team building event known in the brigade's footprint as Gunga Din....
Courtesy Story | 17th Field Artillery Brigade | 11.16.2018
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Soldiers from Alpha Battery, 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery, 17th Field Artillery Brigade conducted a Rapid Air Insertion with a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) into Yakima Training Center, Yakima, Wash., Nov. 15, 2018....
Story by Staff Sgt. Jacob Kohrs | 17th Field Artillery Brigade | 10.11.2018
From Oct. 1 – 10, over 100 soldiers from the 17th Field Artillery ‘Thunderbolt’ Brigade headquarters participated in support of the Warfighter Exercise 19-1; a routine training exercise designed to validate multifunctional echelons above brigade headquarters in high intensity combat scenarios. The exercise allows units to test their standard operating procedures under stress, in a......
Story by Sgt. Jacob Kohrs | 17th Field Artillery Brigade | 05.01.2018
The 17th Field Artillery Brigade set out at the beginning of April on the over 550 mile trek to Orchard Combat Training Center in Idaho. The training that took place Apr. 3-29, was to stress all the brigade’s systems from logistics, maintenance, communications and the overall firing processes, among others....
Story by Sgt. Jacob Kohrs | 17th Field Artillery Brigade | 04.05.2018
From Apr. 3 – 9, the 17th Field Artillery Brigade and its subordinate units are conducting a 550 mile movement from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. to Orchard Combat Training Center, Idaho....
Story by Sgt. Jacob Kohrs | 17th Field Artillery Brigade | 03.05.2018
The senior and junior leaders of both 17th Field Artillery Brigade and 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade come together as one for a summit to discuss and understand ways to prevent a culture of sexual harassment and assault within their ranks, the military, and the world around them....
Story by Sgt. Jacob Kohrs | 17th Field Artillery Brigade | 02.15.2018
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment and 308th Brigade Support Battalion had to work through METL tasks during the 17th Field Artillery Brigade’s battery and company evaluations, Feb 8-14....
