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 . 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 Then , on 1 October 1933 , the 67th Evacuation Hospital was withdrawn as an organized reserve unit and allocated to the VII Army as a regular Army Unit , inactive .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 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 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 Hospital , 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 , Würzburg 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 . It redeployed to Hungary and Bosnia from 8 April 1998 to 8 October 1998 as Task Force 67 and Task Force Med Eagle respectively in support of SFOR . 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 . Deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom ( OIF ) from January 2004 to January 2005 running split based operations in Mosul and Tikrit . The Task Force ( TF ) 67 Headquarters and Company B operated out of Foward Operating Base ( FOB ) Diamondback , and Company A operating out of FOB Speicher . TF 67 also provided the nucleus of the Medical Unit that operated as the first medical support at the Baghdad Central Detentention Facility ( Abu Ghraib ) , augmented by a Forward Surgical Team ( FST ) and individaul medical personnel augmentees from other 2nd Medical Brigade Units . TF 67 initial fell under the command and control of the 30th Medical Brigade who had deployed from Heidelberg , Germany , in support of OIF 1 . Shortly after TF 67 assumed its deployment mission in Iraq the 30th Medical Brigade was replaced by the Army Reservce 2nd Medical Brigade . The 2nd Medical Bridage was replaced about nine months later by the 44th Medical Brigade based out of Fort Bragg , NC . TF 67 was replaced in Iraq by the Army Reserve ' s 228th Combat Support Hospital based out of Texas . Three 67th CSH Soldiers received the Purple Heart for their combat wounds ; SSG Churukah , SGT P . ( male Patient Admin Clerk , and PFC K ( female Food Service ) . The 67th Combat Support Hospital was deactivated at Würzburg , Germany on 19 October 2007 as part of the draw down of US forces in Germany .