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13 Fall 2015 T his article discusses the role of the Provost Marshal Offce (PMO), III Corps, and military police units in support of unifed land operations/decisive action as executed during Warfghter Exercise (WFX) 15-03, Febru- ary 2015 at Fort Hood, Texas, and Camp Atterbury, Indiana. From October 2014 to February 2015, III Corps con- ducted a series of exercises focused on decisive action as a feld headquarters. For the frst time since the opening sal- vos of the Global War on Terror, the mission would focus on the ability of the corps to deploy to an immature theater and operate as a tactical command post with multiple divi- sions and an operational headquarters with responsibilities as the Coalition Joint Force Land Component Command (CJFLCC). After III Corps returned from a deployment in early 2014, it endured the usual turnover of key personnel throughout the spring and summer of 2014. The institution- al knowledge of the corps and the staff that focused on the counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism fghts in Iraq and Afghanistan was lost. With a new commanding general and staff, the III Corps conducted a series of leader development seminars and command post exercises based on the Mission Command Training Program Caspian Sea scenario. In the frst quarter of fscal year 2015, the III Corps staff erected the corps main command post and conducted a series of ma- jor exercises to liberate the fctional country of Atropia from its neighbor, Ariana. The frst exercise was a staff exercise with only virtual play from subordinate units. The second exercise was WFX 15-02, wherein III Corps served as the higher command for the 82d Airborne Division and the 38th Infantry Division, Indiana Army National Guard. The third and culminating exercise was WFX 15-03, in which III Corps led a simulated coalition of ground forces, including the 1st Infantry Division and the returning 38th Infantry Division. These exercises allowed the corps PMO to explore three recent doctrinal and structural changes to the way that mili- tary police support unifed land operations/decisive action: • The echelon, type, and number of military police units allocated to brigade combat teams (BCTs), divisions, and corps changed. • III Corps developed and executed a corps support com- mand post (CSCP) to synchronize and integrate support to decisive action. • The corps PMO incorporated a U.S. Army Crimi- nal Investigation Command (commonly known as CID) criminal intelligence (CRIMINT) analyst, who developed and refned a process to provide detailed criminal and hybrid threat analysis throughout the CJFLCC operational environment. • Experience compiled from these progressively more com- plex exercises resulted in signifcant changes to the way the military police will fght in support of III Corps. Total Army Analysis 18-22 dramatically changed the way military police enabled maneuver units in support of deci- sive action. WFX 15-02 provided the frst opportunity for III Corps to explore these new rules of allocation. In con- junction with the rules of allocation, the Army ordered the deactivation of the BCT organic military police platoons. In- stead, the total Army analysis authorized the allocation of a full combat support military police company to the BCT in support of combat operations. WFX 15-03 was the frst ma- jor exercise in which III Corps and the 89th Military Police Brigade fought with one combat support military police com- pany attached to each BCT and a military police battalion headquarters in support of each division. As a result of these exercises and at the recommendation of the III Corps PMO and the 89th Military Police Brigade, the corps commander established habitual training and operational relationships between subordinate BCTs and military police companies from the 89th Military Police Bri- gade. Having one military police company in direct support of each BCT for collective training, combat training center rotations, and operational deployments provides III Corps BCTs with the capabilities required for assigned missions and future operations. The Corps formalized these relation- ships in a corps order in March 2015. Another concept that III Corps tested during the WFXs was the execution of mission command behind the division rear boundaries. III Corps flled the CJFLCC headquarters role for all three exercises. In this role, the corps bridged the recognized as policing, investigations, and corrections professionals who en- able the decisive action in unifed land operations in concert with our partners to achieve tactical, operational, and —Vision: Military Police Force Strategy 2020 1