RE: Military Police

*sigh*	I was an MP for six years.  I LOVED the combat mission roles,
but I loathed the law-enforcement aspect of the garrison mission.

Something everyone either realizes or eventually get's told (not
offically or during training) as an MP is that as the troops responsible
for security behind friendly lines, MP's are going to be facing the
enemies elite troops, the ones the enemy trains to operate behind enemy
lines and NOT get caught.  

It's that and the need to be able to respond to almost any situation
with speed and decisive firepower that get's the MP's trucks and more
guns than their soldiers could actually fire at any given time.

Althought the TOE calls for enough M-2(.50cal) machine guns for each
squad to have one, in practice the numbers are usually smaller.  One
unit I served in had one "Ma-Deuce" and naturally the company commander
decided she needed it on her truck.

Puns based on MP:

"Can't spell whimp without MP." Counterpun- "Can't take a crap without a
grunt."

"Military Police?  Who're they?  We're Multi-Purpose..."

"Globe-O-Cop:  Policing the World so Third and Fourth World Countries
don't have to."

--Flak

On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 19:08, Kiara S. Rodemaker wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > --- 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?
> > >
> >
> >
> > 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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