67th Combat Support Hospital
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Presently, the 67th Combat Support Hospital is the only forward deployed combat support hospital in Europe with both warfighter support and community service missions. Medical readiness has been, and will continue to be, the primary concern for the unit. Located in the heart of the European theater, the 67th Combat Support Hospital stands 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. Retreat ceremony circa 1966
On 23 March 1925, Evacuation Hospital No. 67 was redesignated as the 67th Evacuation Hospital. Then, on 1 October 1933, the 67th Evacuation Hospital was withdrawn as an organized reserve unit and allocated to the VII Army as a regular Army Unit, inactive.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 on 16 March 1942 at Ft. 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 on 29 November 1943, and was reassigned to the First US Army and moved to England. From 30 November 1943 to 16 June 1944 the unit trained at several locations in Gloucestershire, England. On 17 November 1944, the 67th Evacuation Hospital, semi-mobile landed at Utah 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 Hosptial, semi-mobile returned to the United States and was inactivated at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey on 1 January 1946. The unit was redesignated as the 67th Evacuation Hospital on 10 June 1963 and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado.
The 67th Evacuation Hospital deployed to Qui-Nhon, Vietnam in October 1966, and moved to Pleiku in January 1971. The 67th Evacuation Hospital participated in 15 campaigns during the Vietnam 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 in Heidelberg, Germany and was assigned to augment the United States Army Medical Department Activity, Wuerzburg on the following day. The 67th Evacuation Hospital was officially redesignated the 67th Combat Support Hospital on 16 July 1993. The 67th Combat Support Hospital deployed to the Balkans to support operations in Hungary and Bosnia, from 12 December 1995 to 12 April 1997 and 8 April 1998 to 8 October 1998.
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 to Camp 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 on 14 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.
