Military Police contains information about military police functions in maneuver and mobility support, area security, law and order, internment/resettlement, and police intelligence operations.
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before we landed. Because the airport was deserted, we were required to exit the plane, off-load the baggage and equipment, and ¿nd our way to Camp Arifjan on our own. With staff and equipment augmentation provided by the 220th Military Police Brigade, the 504th moved to the border to establish operations. The battalion took mission command of L Troop, 3d Squadron, 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment; the Once we reached Camp 302d Military Police Company; Arifjan, our small team and 2d Platoon, 410th Military ". . . he grabbed the microphone and said immediately began operations Police Company, which had something like, 'Move that military police to coordinate for and receive been performing security force assigned follow-on military battalion forward now, and get the LOC duties in Kuwait and Qatar. The police units. On about opened back up.'" small military police battalion 23 March, as coalition forces task force rapidly moved to sewere rapidly moving through cure CSC Navistar and the crossing points and to organize the Iraq, a severe sandstorm, increased enemy activity along the main supply routes (MSRs), and the backlog of critical supply convoys. The 504th worked with individual convoy commandconvoys in the staging areas at the Kuwait-Iraq border crossing ers, movement control units, CFLCC staff entities, and nearby placed operations at risk. The CFLCC commander initiated British forces to prioritize, stage, and secure all coalition conan operational pause to secure the lines of communication voys passing through CSC Navistar and to ensure that the most (LOCs), resupply the maneuver forces, and set the proper combat-essential supplies were quickly moved forward. With conditions before isolating and entering Baghdad. When the the number of vehicles exceeding the holding-area capacity of arrival of the 504th Military Police Battalion advance party CSC Navistar by the hundreds, several additional large staging was announced during an evening battle update brief to the areas needed to be established. CFLCC commander, he grabbed the microphone and said something like, "Move that military police battalion forward now, and get the LOC opened back up." On 4 April, the 300th Military Police Company arrived at CSC Navistar, where it joined the effort to protect critical Class III and Class V supply convoys along the extended CSC Scania in Iraq in April 2003 Due to the obvious critical need for military police to support combat operations, the 504th Military Police Battalion advance party received a 25 March CFLCC order to immediately move forward to occupy Convoy Support Center (CSC) Navistar along the Kuwait-Iraq border. Our battalion mission consisted of— ● Securing convoy staging areas and crossing points. ● Coordinating and directing essential troop movement and combat resources across the border into Iraq via MSR Tampa. ● Establishing security along MSR Tampa through the Iraqi border town of Safwan. 8 supply lines so that I Marine Expeditionary Force and V Corps forces could remain on the offensive path toward capturing Baghdad. On 8 April, the remainder of the 504th headquarters detachment arrived and began integrating into ongoing operations. At the same time, CFLCC directed that the 377th Theater Support Command secure MSR Tampa as a theater route to Tallil Airbase, An Nasiriyah, Iraq. In support of this directive, the area of responsibility for the 504th was extended to Tallil Airbase, 125 miles north of CSC Navistar. The 504th was responsible for establishing a security corridor along MSR Tampa from the Kuwait-Iraq border to Tallil Airbase. The battalion immediately began coordinating with the 18th Military Police Brigade (in support of V Corps) and MILITARY POLICE . 19-13-1