18th Bde.

 

        My 21 years of military service started with my enlistment in 1954 in the Medical Corps as a Dental Technician.

        I served in Japan on Okinawa with the 75th Regimental Combat Team then in Korea with the 24th Infantry Division with duty assignment at I Corps, NCO Academy.

        I briefly left the Army and reenlisted in 1959, this time for the Military Police Corps. I was Honor Graduate at the Military Police School at Fort Gordon, Georgia.

        My next service assignments consisted of the 520th MP Company, SHAPE HQ, France, Fort Devens, MA, Camp Peary, VA (Department of Defense assignment).

        My second tour of Korea was with A Company 728th MP Battalion attached to the Provost Marshals Office (PMO) as the MP Station Commander where I was responsible for supervising the daily functions of the MP desk, patrols, vice, traffic and customs. I was then assigned to the MP School and NCOIC Assistant Instructor of the Combined Arms Committee.

My first tour in Vietnam was from September 1967 to September 1968 with Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment, 720th MP Battalion as the S-3 Operations Sergeant, I oversaw the daily operations of all the Battalion organic companies and asset functions to include; Tactical Area of Responsibility, Convoy Escorts, POW processing and hospitalization, all over-flights and water borne operations.         Upon returning to the states I was assigned to Fort Devens, as the PMO Operations NCO and then as First Sergeant at the 624th MP Company.         My second tour in Vietnam was with the HQ and HQ Detachment of the 18th MP Brigade as Assistant Operations Sergeant, and then as acting Operations Sergeant. I participated in the Brigade Inspector Generals (IG) Inspection Team and the transition of the PBR assets to ARVN Navy control.

        I ended my career as the Provost Marshal Operations NCO, and First Sergeant of the 236th MP Detachment at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

        I retired from the Army in January 1975 but continued working in the civil service. First with the Law Enforcement Division, ODCSPER, Pentagon as the Freedom of Information & Privacy Act Action Officer, then with the IRS Boston Office, as the Chief of Operating Services, and finished my second career in the Civil Service in the new IRS Security Section.

       In addition to MFSS-Dental Tech School & MP AIT, I graduated from both the 7th Army NCOA, Germany, and MP NCO School, Class #1, Fort Gordon, GA.