Please define the letters in address: HHB,2-17,2BCT. Thanks?

Answer 1

Both were partially incorrect.
It stands for Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
2nd Battalion of the 17th FIELD ARTILLERY
of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team. and you can get to the Units web site using the link above.

Answer 2

This is only a guess as I dont know the exact unit or type of unit:

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion of the 17th Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team

I can tell its an artillary unit, but thats about it.

EDIT: I stand corrected. I'm not sure what I was smoking when I typed in "Infantry" when I knew full well it had to be Field Artillary based on it having a HHB.

Answer 3

John Rngo got it right.

Here's how you tell.

The B is the giveaway. (HHB).

There are HHC, HHT and HHS units as well. All are headquarters elements. C is Company. T is Troop, and S is Section.

S won't necesarilly tell you much. Likley a support unit of one kind or another, but not necesarilly.

T will be a Cavalry unit. And C will be Infantry, Armor, or Aviation as long as we're talking about combat arms units.

Often Aviation regiments will not have a Battalion number (as in this case 2-17 is 2nd Battalion of the 17th Field Artillery Regiment).

The part that you can't tell,without first determining what kind of unit, and then looking it up, is what Division this 2BCT is associated with. In this case, it's 2nd Infantry (Big Patch) Division, newly of Ft. Carson, CO, recently returned from Korea, via Iraq.

Answer 4

The poster above is correct. Here is their website, click on 2-17 FA