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to the seaport of embarkation. Military police developed
methods of tracking and accountability, mitigating the risk
of tampering and ensuring that only equipment meeting
USDA standards was shipped back to the United States.
The lack of a Customs and Border Patrol-approved facility
prevented personnel preclearance to applicable standards,
so JFC-UA General Order 1 and USDA standards were used
to mitigate the transport of contraband to home station.
At the JFC-UA level, the division provost marshal's offce
conducted doctrinal tasks (such as oversight for force protec-
tion), working closely with a supporting criminal investiga-
tion division team, area security, and customs support. The
division provost marshal's offce interacted and coordinated
closely with the LNP and liaised with the International Nar-
cotics and Law Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department
of State. The division provost marshal's offce established
the JFC-UA quick-reaction force with the 194th Military Po-
lice Company. Once established, the joint operations offcer
took over employment authority of the quick-reaction force,
and the JFC-UA headquarters and headquarters battalion
provided daily supervision. The provost marshal's offce
combined with the division chemical, biological, radiological,
and nuclear section and provided planning, oversight, and
direction to the protection cell that grew to become the force
protection/force health protection cell. The cell included di-
vision surgeon, engineer, chaplain, behavioral health, equal
opportunity, Sexual Harassment and Prevention Response
Program, safety, staff judge advocate, and operations secu-
rity personnel, led by the division provost marshal.
This expanded cell was created based on Major General
Volesky's No. 1 priority of force protection/force health pro-
tection. His intent was that no member of the JFC-UA be-
come sick with malaria, dengue fever, typhoid or, more im-
portantly, the Ebola virus or fall victim to internal threats,
safety issues, discrimination, or sexual assault. The frst
task was to create a small team from the cell and conduct
initial assessments based on preliminary U.S. Army Africa
surveys. This team consisted of a military police Soldier who
focused on antiterrorism/force protection; an engineer who
looked at the physical layout of nodes and provided subject
matter expert guidance on force protection-related construc-
tion; a division safety offcer who ensured hazards of loss
of life, limb, or eyesight were mitigated; and a preventive
medical offcer who addressed vector, water, and food-borne
vulnerabilities.
This team conducted initial assessments of each node,
sharing its fndings and recommendations with the node
leadership and tracking the progress made against each
vulnerability or issue. Joint intelligence staff cell members
were a nontraditional addition to the team. The use of Naval
Criminal Investigative Service agents proved invaluable in
staying in contact with local LNP and communicating infor-
mation on the local operational environment. When it was
time to reassess the sites, the scope of the assessment team
grew to encompass other internal threats to the force that
chaplain, equal opportunity, Sexual Harassment and Pre-
vention Response Program, operations security, and staff
judge advocate representatives could address. These ad-
ditional staff sections were extremely valuable in allowing
commanders to tackle Soldier concerns before they became
momentum-sapping problems.
Military police played a signifcant role in keeping the
JFC-UA Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen safe in a
very unfamiliar environment. The JFC-UA collective pro-
tection mission was successful not only because of the use of
key lessons learned, but also due to the adaptability of the
military police Soldier and supporting Soldiers within our
Corps. This was evident while executing small-team secu-
rity operations for mobile army laboratories and DOD Ebola
training teams, interacting with the LNP, executing mis-
sions as the JFC-UA quick-reaction force, and conducting
USDA inspections of redeploying equipment. The military
police of the 194th Military Police Company and JFC-UA
would not have been successful without the cooperation of
numerous Liberian law enforcement agencies (LNP, Bureau
of Immigration and Naturalization, National Security Agen-
cy, Liberian Drug Enforcement Agency, and Armed Forces
of Liberia). These agencies proved to be willing and extreme-
ly capable allies in keeping the JFC-UA safe throughout the
country.
The 194th Military Police Company proved as adaptable
and countering the criminal element in the permis-
sive environment as they have been against violent extrem-
ists during the past 13 years of combat deployments.
Endnotes:
1
"Haiti Earthquake Fast Facts," Cable News Network Li-
brary, 6 January 2015,