Re: Military Police - uniforms, etc.

MPs in the US Army wear the same uniforms/equipment (albeit with
different weapons) as other combat arms with the following exception:

Brassards.  They're basically an armband worn on the left arm.	When on
tactical ops they are subdued colors and in garrison they're black with
the letters "MP" in white.  Also, they usually had either the US flag
above the letters "MP" or the unit patch the MP was assigned to or the
Provost Marshall's Office (equiv: Police Station/precinct) they were
working out of.

Note that the brassards are only worn during Law-Enforcement duties or
out on REAL tactical ops.  Very rarely were brassards worn during
training, when they were it was usually because we were working our MP
missions training with another unit, so they needed to know we were the
MP's and not OPFOR.  They were never worn as a part of the uniform
during routine duties in garrison.

--Flak

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:35, Tomb wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I know some of you listers (and your sig others, IIRC) are MPs or
were.
> Help me out here: What uniform do MPs usually wear when on combat ops
or
> when doing LEA? I ask because I've got a set of 2 MPs walking plus 2
in
> a jeep from GZG and I'm wondering how to paint them up - should I be
> putting them in standard cammie jammies for the force they represent
(in
> this case, probably NAC or Independent to accompany my Gurkhas) or
> should they be wearing some sort of plainer garrison dress? And should
I
> be worrying about brassards? And what would be an appropriate colour
for
> NAC Berets? (Red(ish) for brit, IIRC, but what colour for US?)
> 
> The fact these guys are carrying self-loader pistols (rather than ARs)
> and wearing berets may suggest that they are garrison guys... for
combat
> MPs, maybe I should be using standard NAC infantry figures in helmets
> with ARs, SAWs, etc.? And maybe the Jeep I should be using should be a
> NAC combat jeep with tribarrel MG? 
> 
> And are there or are there not such a thing as airborne MPs? I seem to
> recall hearing something to that effect once, but it could have been
> urban (military) legend. 
> 
> Thanks for the info. I'm sort of thinking of a scenario involving MPs,
> some prisoners being transfered or picked up from an infantry unit,
and
> an enemy counterattack that thus forces the MPs to be involved.....
> 
> Tomb. 

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