Lineage
- Constituted 1 November 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 17th Signal Operations Battalion
- Activated 30 November 1942 at Camp Crowder, Missouri
- Inactivated 18 February 1946 at Camp Bowie, Texas
- Redesignated 5 July 1950 as the 17th Signal Operation Battalion and activated in Germany
- Allotted 15 December 1950 to the Regular Army
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 October 1953 as the 17th Signal Battalion
- Inactivated 25 September 1965 in Germany
- Activated 16 March 1981 in Germany
- Inactivated 17 August 2006 in Germany
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“I declare
Two lineages electrify the air,
That will like pennons from a mast
Fly over sleep and life and death
Till sun is powerless to decoy
A single seed above the earth:
Lineage of sorrow: lineage of joy....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)