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| A tribute to the Military Police who served in Vietnam |
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| model courtesy Richard Alvarez |
| Roy Barfield was originally with the 552n MPs and then the 615th MPs running convoys back and forth from Long Binh to Saigon and doing road security patrols. |
| Jim Peterson, 1966 with the 55-Deuce MPs at Long Binh. Here with off-duty Vietnamese cop. Jim later went to the 557th MPs. Right, Dan Nelson, 557th, reads a letter from home while unkown MP looks on. Right, a convoy makes it's way through busy Saigon. Below 1SGT Dan Simmons with the 66th MP Company, 1969-70. |
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| Above a 66th MP V-100 sits immobilized after an ambush. Left, a V-100 ready for convoy. MP in front brandishes his M79 grenade launcher. Twin .30 Caliber machine gun and in the rear an MP on the M60 machine gun. |
| photo courtesy Dan Simmons |
| photo Dan Simmons |
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| SFC Moseby taking a break during a convoy run out of Dian in 1966. An unknown "Big Red One" MP mans the M60. Below, left, PFC Taylor and Thomas Martin also of the First Infantry Division MPs. Photos courtesy of Thomas Martin. |
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| A Big Red One MP watched equipment being dropped at a fire support base. Above Provost Marshal LTC Timmerberg (he's the chap on the right) during a break. |
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| Along with the 101st Airborne screaming eagle patch the Big Red One patch from the First Infantry Division is one of the most recognizable. |
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| Dan Simmons, right, reunited with Ken Hunsucker, both 66th MPs. |
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| Bill Norcutt, 504th MP BN in gun jeep. Some of the territory patrolled by the 504th, Dennis Berri at the French Grove. |
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| photos courtesy Dean Hodgdon |
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| Cecil Rhodes, foreground, 720th MPs, gets ready to assist the 9th Infantry Division with a convoy escort into the Mekong Delta, December, 1966. |