Military Police

FALL 2015

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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32 news services have rapid reporting, but may lack accuracy. Commercial services are usually updated within 24 hours, and the accuracy of their reports is very good. The U.S. gov- ernment services are the most accurate; however, it can take 5 to 7 days for a signifcant event to be posted on the gov- ernment sites. Many low-profle local events will make it to the news and commercial services, but not be posted on the government sites. According to a USASOC directive, every deploying unit, regardless of size, has an ATO Basic Course–Level II ATO. During the predeployment site survey, the ATO conducts multiple force protection assessments. There is an assess- ment for every location where the unit will reside or train in the partner nation, all primary and alternate routes to and from the mission locations, and the routes and any lay- over locations between the home station and the partner nation. During these deployments, the unit is totally depen- dent on the partner nation for support and reinforcement. Consequently, an integral factor in these assessments is the ability of the partner nation to provide security for ARSOF Soldiers. As a force protection standard, all ARSOF teams deploy with their weapons and ammunition. Rules of engagement are coordinated between the partner nation and the U.S. ambassador before the deployment and are part of the pre- deployment training. Deploying ARSOF units must meet all of the Army and theater commander predeployment training requirements. In addition, units must be trained to address potential vul- nerabilities that were identifed through mission analysis or by the predeployment site survey team. To meet many of these training requirements, the unit must rely on internal expertise or nonstandard contracted training. Nonstandard training includes military mobile force protection; surveil- lance, countersurveillance, and detection; evasive driving skills; and protection of high-risk personnel—plus many other subjects based on the mission, threat, and location. To be effective, nonstandard training is oriented to the culture and terrain of the partner nation. In every generation, the Army orients training to a spe- cifc region—Vietnam, Germany, the Fulda Gap and, most recently, Iraq and Afghanistan. As the mission orientation changes from a specifc region to a worldwide mission, the requirement for Soldiers to interact with the partner na- tion's culture remains a critical skill. For example, the be- haviors demonstrated by the local population and other cul- tural clues that indicate pending violence in Brazil are not the same as in Afghanistan or here in the United States. The ability to detect the small, nonverbal indicators of pending violence is a critical protection skill for the individual Sol- dier and requires nonstandard training by subject matter experts. Based on the mission and the threat, ARSOF units are equipped with force protection kits. The equipment in these kits can range from a simple doorstop alarm that can be purchased at a local hardware store to sophisticated detection and alarm systems that include fully integrated, closed-circuit television and sensor arrays. The detection and alarm systems will ft into one or two large suitcases, depending on their confguration. These systems can man- age a combination of up to 24 separate, closed-circuit televi- sions or sensors analyzing user-defned heuristics, recording and providing a local alarm or notifcations, and monitoring via cellular phone or across a network. Most of the areas where ARSOF teams and detachments deploy lack modern communications, and satellite radios and other military communication methods may not be available or practical because of mission constraints or incompatibility with part- ner nation equipment. In those cases, the unit deploys with satellite telephones to provide communications back to the U.S. embassy and to any other location with a working tele- phone. ARSOF units are provided with robust staff support, in- telligence, force protection surveys, training, and equipment to increase the team's situational awareness and response capability when it deploys; but it is the professionalism of the Soldiers, their recognition of the threats, their accep- tance of the risks, and their willingness to apply the tools and act accordingly that allow them to accomplish their mis- sion. Endnotes: 1 (Web site), Worldcue®, 2000–2015, , accessed on 6 July 2015. 2 News Now (Web site), NewsNow Publishing Limited, 1997–2015, , accessed on 6 July 2015. 3 Overseas Security Advisory Council Web Site, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S Department of State, , accessed on 6 July 2015. Captain Snyder (Retired) is the Chief, G-34, USASOC, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He holds a bachelor's degree in resources (now Troy University), Troy, of business degree in State University; and de- gree in counselin South Orange, New Jersey. MILITARY POLICE

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