FW: 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.

Hush!  You aren't supposed to let the 11BangBang's know that!  They
might
figure out a way to get their hands on our *stuff*!!!  <aghast>

>
> 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.

This would be the *perfect* place to insert my favorite DWI road-check
story
involving a platoon recently back from a hostile-fire zone being
assigned to
pull cars over at a road-block and check for drunks and the resulting
"decisive firepower" when a car decided to run the road-block...

Fill in your own details.  You're probably correct.  :-)

>
> 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.

She should have been taken out back by her 1SG and had some sense beaten
into her.

My unit never had a problem getting the weapons we were assigned, but we
deployed so often that we were kept pretty well equipped.

Spare tires and radiator hose, however, were *major* supply issues.

Kiara