Introducing project “Military Insignia”, featuring top quality military heraldry designs. Here you will find designer apparel, accessories, custom postage and gifts decorated with insignia of the 17th Fires Brigade "Thunderbolt", a fromer 17th Field Artillery brigade in the United States Army. It is currently based in Fort Lewis Washington, and supports I Corps. The 17th Fires Brigade began as the 17th Field Artillery Brigade part of the 17th Division at Camp Bowie, Texas on July 31, 1918. It demobilised on February 1919 after World War I. The 17th Field Artillery Brigade activated again at Fort Sill January 1943. During World War II the 17th Field Artillery Brigade participated in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. The elements of 17th Field Artillery deployed to Iraq in 2003, 2005 and again in 2009. The 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment [part of 17th Fires Brigade] deployed in late 2009 as a "Route Clearance Patrol" supporting various Engineer Battalions in Northern and Southern Afghanistan. As part of the modular transformation, the Brigade was reorganised and redesignated on 17 July 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Fires Brigade.