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Special Report: MP's
01/01/2005
This Special Report is part of the January 2005 issues of AUSA News.
'Professionals Made the Transition' (01/01/2005)
Once they understood, there is a need” to be retrained from field artillery or air defense to military police, soldiers accepted the change and moved quickly through their training into the field with their new MOSs, officials at the military police school at Fort Leonard Wood said. Lt. Col. Randy Evans, a reservist from the 100th Division, based in Nashville, Tenn., said, 10 batteries of field artillery were retrained in Fiscal Year 2004 as military police, but “we also had medics, cooks, mechanics” being reclassified in the four-week classes.
| 463rd Begins Training Cycle Again (01/01/2005)
Capt. Michael Hunter's 463rd Militay Police Company has just returned from its deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“It was tough,” he said about the deployment. One secret of success, Hunter believes, was “constantly reminding the soldiers why we were there,” and “doing anything stupid wasn't worth” jeopardizing the mission.
| It's About Teamwork (01/01/2005)
Vincent Brice is a retired military policeman. On a surprisingly cool and crisp morning in south central Missouri in August, he is working with 20 marines, teaching them military police tactics in a confined space.
| Meeting Great People (01/01/2005)
NCO and Soldier Programs
For more than two years, Sgt. 1st Class Lee Markwell has been a drill instructor at the military police school at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. “I always wanted to be a soldier,” he said about the decision that took him from Alaska to Fort Bragg, N.C., where he started out as a medic. He was looking for adventure and a change from what he had been doing as a teenager.
| Meeting Great People (01/01/2005)
NCO and Soldiers Programs
For more than two years, Sgt. 1st Class Lee Markwell has been a drill instructor at the military police school at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. “I always wanted to be a soldier,” he said about the decision that took him from Alaska to Fort Bragg, N.C., where he started out as a medic.
| On Patrol: Seeing Through an MPs Eyes (01/01/2005)
When he was 18, Sgt. Dustin Leishman “really wanted to work for the Oregon State Police,” but state law said that to carry a weapon as a law enforcement officer a person had to be 21. Leishman then enlisted in the Army and went to Germany and Kosovo. “I reenlisted to be a field MP.” He is a patrol supervisor, working the 3 to 11 p.m. shift at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
| Stem Village - Tough Place to Be (01/01/2005)
Stem Village can be a tough place to live in – if it were a real community. But, military police training officials at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., find the five-year-old, $13 million site a wonderful place to ensure that future MPs know how to respond to incidents of domestic violence, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
| Trainees: 'It's Not About You' (01/01/2005)
Brandon Hiller, Leona Martinez and Chase Walker are in Week 3 of their training to become military police officers. It is during this week that, for the first time, they are firing live rounds from an M16 rifle. They will fire their M16s over and over again. Before the next eight days are through, they are expected to qualify in basic rifle marksmanship.
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