- 67th Combat Support Hospital (United States)
The 67th Combat Support Hospital was the only forward deployed
combat support hospital in Europe with both warfighter support and community service missions. Medical readiness was the primary concern for the unit. Located in the heart of the European theater, the 67th Combat Support Hospital stood ready to provide Echelon III health care around the globe.The 67th Combat Support Hospital was originally constituted as Evacuation Hospital No 67 on
21 July 1924 in the organized reserves and was allocated the VII Corps area. [http://www.wuerzburg.healthcare.hqusareur.army.mil/images/Formation.jpgRetreat ceremony circa 1966]On
23 March 1925 , Evacuation Hospital No. 67 was redesignated as the 67th Evacuation Hospital. Then, on1 October 1933 , the 67th Evacuation Hospital was withdrawn as an organized reserve unit and allocated to the VII Army as a regular Army Unit, inactive. The 67th Evacuation Hospital was activated on16 March 1942 at Fort Rodman, Massachusetts, and assigned to the first Army.The 67th Evacuation Hospital was redesignated as the 67th Evacuation, Semi-mobile in February 1943. The unit staged for movement to the European Theater of operations, arriving in
Scotland on29 November 1943 , and was reassigned to the First US Army and moved to England. From30 November 1943 to16 June 1944 the unit trained at several locations inGloucestershire , England. On17 November 1944 , the 67th Evacuation Hospital, semi-mobile landed atUtah Beach ,Normandy . The Unit participated in the Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes Pass-Alsace, and Central Europe campaigns during WWII, and was decorated with the meritorious unit commendation streamer embroidered European Theater.In December 1945, the 67th Evacuation Hospital, semi-mobile returned to the United States and was inactivated at
Camp Kilmer ,New Jersey on1 January 1946 . The unit was redesignated as the 67th Evacuation Hospital on 10 June 1963 and activated atFort Carson, Colorado .The 67th Evacuation Hospital deployed to
Qui Nhon ,Vietnam in October 1966, and moved toPleiku in January 1971. The 67th Evacuation Hospital participated in 15 campaigns during theVietnam War and was decorated with two meritorious unit commendation streamers embroidered Vietnam 1967-1968 and 1970-1972. In March 1973, the 67th Evacuation Hospital was inactivated in Pleiku, Vietnam.The 67th Evacuation Hospital was again activated on
21 November 1975 inHeidelberg ,Germany and was assigned to augment the United States Army Medical Department Activity, Würzburg on the following day. The 67th Evacuation Hospital was officially redesignated the 67th Combat Support Hospital on16 July 1993 . The 67th Combat Support Hospital deployed to theBalkans to support operations inHungary and Bosnia, from12 December 1995 to12 April 1997 . It redeployed toHungary and Bosnia from8 April 1998 to8 October 1998 as Task Force 67 and Task Force Med Eagle respectively in support ofSFOR .The 67th Combat Support Hospital deployed a 32-bed expandable to 52 bed Contingency Medical Force (CMF) consisting of 100+ personnel on
3 July 1999 toCamp Bondsteel ,Kosovo in support of Task Force Falcon,Operation Joint Guardian II. The CMF was named Task Force MED Falcon and assumed the level III medical mission in Kosovo on14 July 1999 . The 67th CSH returned to Kosovo in 2002 for another 12-month rotation in support of Task Force Medical Falcon that ended in April 2003.Deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from
2004 to2005 running split based operations inMosul andTikrit The 67th Combat Support Hospital was deactivated at Würzburg, Germany on
19 Oct 2007 as part of the draw down of US Forces in Germany.ources
* http://www.wuerzburg.healthcare.hqusareur.army.mil/history1.htm
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