RE: Military Police

PS - By the way - those "garrison turds" you were referring to?  They're
exactly the same folks that pull combat duty - US Army MP's rotate out
between road duty and field duty.  <smile>

Kiara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rodemaker [mailto:dar@horusinc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 6:04 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Cc: Kiara S. Rodemaker
> Subject: RE: Military Police
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> > --- David Rodemaker <dar@horusinc.com> wrote:
> > > Let me ask my wife. (Former MP Captain, served in
> > > Panama and the Gulf War)
> > > She'll know and be able to write up something nice
> > > if I ask nicely...
> >
> > I found an MTOE for a divisional MP company (which
> > discusses equipment totals for the company, but not
> > much about internal breakdown--it's on the FAS
> > website, thanks Laserlight), and an FM on MPs that
> > gave a few more details.  Near as I can tell, it's
> > supposed to be 3 teams in a squad, with each team
> > having a HMMWV and a squad has a total of 1x.50cal,
> > 2xMk19s, 3xM-60 (now M-240??) and 3xSAW??  That's 9
> > automatic weapons for a unit with 10 men, of whom 3
> > are driving vehicles???  Plus every man has an M-16A2,
> > one per team having an M-203 mounted on it????  AND a
> > pistol?
> >
> > This does not make sense to me--please ask your wife
> > if I'm misreading this or are MPs really that well
> > armed?
> >
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> Hi, John.  This is Kiara, David's wife.
>
> No, you are *not* misreading those manuals.  MPs really *are* that
well
> armed.  It freaks out some of the infantry types we've had to
> deal with, but
> a combat MP unit is really motorized infantry, just with better
armament,
> slightly more specific missions, and a way around the combat
> exclusion laws
> for women.
>
> David told me you were asking about the organizational structure of
the
> MP's - let me know what else you want to know, and I'll see what
> I can do to
> help you out.  My email addy is PhoenixRising@horusinc.com.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kiara
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