146th mp platoon

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Platoon duties expand to Chu Lai

February to 25 November A detachment was sent to Chu Lai to help out the 23rd MP Company. Their original mission was to provide manpower to the POW compound, which didn’t materialize because of other more important commitment's.

March A Viet Cong bomb destroyed an ARVN jeep and wounded its two occupants just outside the 146th MP Platoon compound at Quang Ngai City.

February Members of the 146th MP Platoon in conjunction with the 23rd MP Company, Americal Division, handle security, convoy escort and police patrol in the City of Tam Ky.

8 June During the early morning hours a Soviet-built 122-mm rocket slammed into ward 4 of the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, Vietnam. 1LT Sharon A. Lane, age 24 died instantly. Though seven other American military nurses lost their lives serving in Vietnam, 1LT Lane was the only American servicewoman killed as a direct result of enemy fire throughout the war.

Also working at the hospital that morning was SP/4 John Roggiero of the 146th MP Platoon who was on POW guard detail. Roggiero was also wounded by shrapnel from the attack.

SP/4 Roggiero Was Down But Not Out 1LT Peter S. Tiffany (MAJ Retired), Commanding Officer, 146th MP Platoon, 504th MP Battalion, 16th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade.