The following link is to a slide show of MP in Vietnam. There are seven parts in all. At 2 min in of this one is a great photo of an MP with a Thompson.

Nice slide show.

45 years ago, time flies doesn't it

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Doesn't hasta call me Johnson

I was assigned to HHQ, 18th MP Brigade in Long Binh in 1969 and 70. It was a great year.

Great link!
Pics brought back a lot of memories, and the music was very cool. Also saw an old M-3 Grease Gun, and Gen. Westmoreland with his arm in a cast and his protection detail carrying M-14's.

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John

MPs often accompanied the grunts as POW handlers, saw their share of action but were not eligible for the CIB. The MPs in Saigon during Tet earned their pay.

When I joined in '66 I thought I was going airborne infantry. But Airborne Unassigned doesn't mean infantry.

Out of basic I was sent to MP School at Ft Gordon. Out of Jump School I volenteered for Vietnam and was sent to the 82nd MP Company. After three request I was sent to the 101st MP Company, 1st Bde, 101st Abn Div.

After a while I got my request for the "Recondo's", the Recon Plt for the 2/502 inf.

I enjoyed my time with the 101st MPs and if I had it to do all over again I'd stayed there.

We did mostly road clearing and convoy escourts but we did have a little POW camp.

Later I'll dig up and scan some photos of the 101st MP Company in Vietnam.

At 4:07, is the MP seated in the Jeep holding a 12 gauge pump?

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I'm with the banned ...

Whenever I see a presentation such as this I am always saddened for those that served so honorably, have not yet received the welcome they deserved.

At least we seemed to have learned our lesson, but at such a terrible price.

May those that served find peace and know this peace officer is grateful for what you did.

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1601 (ret)

This is what I did in Viet Nam. Many of those shots-better than half of them, could have been my little detachment. We had a gun jeep similar to some of the ones pictured-not those with the metal side guards-never saw those before; too hard to get out of the jeep (in a hurry) with those blocking you. We pulled security on an antenae farm in the northern Delta. My job was roving patrol, and we went out a night into the area surrounding this signal sight. Yes, that was a shot gun, we had a sawed off stevens that was carried by a guy in a holster similar to the rig McQueen had in "Wanted..." Because of the close quarters in the jeep, we had other "short barreld" weapons as well; even an M-14 that was cut down to practically nothing, and had a selector switch!! We used to say that, if there was no other way, you could ride it to town! I had a Sweedish K that was loaned to me for a while, and I really liked it, but the guy took it with him to LZ English when he was sent there; l iked the guy, but missed the gun more than him! Those V-100 light armored vehicles with the big tractor tires were good in the delta, and we worked with a bunch that manned a check point at the junction of Korean hwy and Hwy 4, not a job I would have wanted. The shots went by pretty quick, but I thought I saw 199th or 192nd markings on one V-100. 192 had some people billeted in our little rathole compound (rats-big ones). Great to see a tribute to those who found themselves in an MP mos in 'Nam; kind of a lonely job, no body really liked you, so you had to improvise with whatever you had, or didn't. Flapjack.

In 1967, three years before I was in Vietnam, my older brother was an MP in Korea up near the DMZ. Boy, we were young then . . .

He liked his helmet . . .



But he loved his winter pile cap, it was sooooo . . . Korea.

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1st Signal Brigade, RVN '70