720th
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18th Bde.

SP/5 Robert C. Bogison
B Company, 720th MP Battalion
188th MP Company, 504th MP Battalion
6 July 1969 to 10 September1970

Honorably Discharged

Note: Bob has since retired from LAPD and moved to Colorado. He has yet to notify the History Project of his new address.

        I was in college and after one and a half years left and enlisted in the Army on 6 February 1968. I attended basic training at Fort Ord, California 6 February to April 1968, then Military Police School at Fort Gordon, Georgia.

        My first assignment was to the US Army Correctional Facility, “CTF” at Fort Riley, Kansas. The facility was designed to take the worst military prisoners and retrain and teach them discipline to salvage their military service.

        My duties included Tower Guard, Police Desk, Patrol, Escaped Prisoner Investigations and assignment to Building #1384, the Psycotic Block. In my opinion the entire program was a total failure and the post was a one square mile of insanity. I wanted to transfer out to Vietnam and was repeadily refused, they said my MOS was critical. It took writing to two state senators and then Governor Ronald Reagan before the request was accepted.

        I was assigned to the 284th MP Company (Confinement), at the USARV Stockade on Long Binh Post from 6 July 1969 through 31 December 1969.

        Persistence again paid off and I requested and received a transfer from Long Binh Jail to the 720th MP Battalion.

        On 1 January 1970 I was transferred to B Company and assigned as a Squad Leader, 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon in the Ambush Unit until April 1970.

       On 1 May 1970 I was reassigned to the company River Patrol Unit and worked on a PBR (Patrol Boat Riverine) until 31 July 1970.

        On or about 4 August 1970 the entire B Company Ambush and PBR Unit was disbanded and the responsibilities were turned over to the 25th Infantry Division.

        I completed the remainder of my tour of duty with other displaced B Company members when B Company was redesignated as the 188th MP Company, 504th MP Battalion, near Da Nang at Freedom Hill, Camp David. We worked as elements of the Armed Forces Police to assist the Marines assigned to regular Military Police duties.

        At the completion of my tour I was honorably discharged and the Monday after I returned back to college, graduating in 1973.

        I entered law enforcement joining the the Los Angeles Police Department and have twenty-four years service and I am currently working as a Homicide Detective.
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