1970 Time Line ~ 188th MP Company
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The 92nd MP Battalion departs Vietnam
 
January CPT Robert E. Connor replaces CPT Lattimore as the My Tho Detachment commander and MACV Team 75's MP advisor to the 7th ARVN Infantry Division.
 
5 February The 188th Military Police Company who where assigned duties in IV Corps (Mekong Delta) were reassigned to the command of the 720th Military Police Battalion when its parent unit the 92nd Military Police Battalion was the first MP Headquarters to be deactivated and withdrawn from Vietnam.
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7 March SGT Dennis Ray Heerman, age 20, from Coin, Iowa, died as a result of a vehicle crash in Ba Xuyen Province, IV Corps Tactical Zone (Mekong Delta Region). Details of the circumstances surrounding his casualty are at this time unknown.
SGT Heerman
 
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14 March 1LT Raymond F. Cox is assigned as Platoon Leader. Shortly after his promotion to Captain, he was assigned as the Provost Marshal of Vinh Long Province.
 
22 March CPT Ray W. Lattimore passes command of the 188th MP Company to CPT Dennis Fogarty.
 
2 April CPT Ray W. Lattimore, Commanding Officer, departed.
 
B Company and the 188th, 720th MP Battalion, exchange guidons, assignments and personnel
 

10 July CPT Dennis Fogarty passed command of B Company, 720th MP Battalion to CPT Walter B. Koszyk. CPT Koszyk passes command of the 188th MP Company to CPT Fogarty.
 
720th
15 July The official redesignation (on morning report) of B Company, 720th MP Battalion, on Long Binh Post, III Corps Tactical Zone, as the 188th MP Company, and the 188th MP Company, 720th MP Battalion, in Vinh Long, IV Corps Tactical Zone, Mekong Delta, as B Company, became official.
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        The change was made to facilitate the physical transfer of the 188th MP Company north to the 504th MP Battalion, 16th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, at DaNang in I Corps Tactical Zone under the Vietnamization downsizing of U.S. forces.
 
18 July 1LT Charles W. Smith is assigned as a Platoon Leader.
 
19 July B Company & 188th MP Company begin the change with the infantry mission in the 18th MP Brigade Tactical Area of Responsibility coming to a close (25 July). Members of B Company started shipping out to DaNang to staff the newly redesignated 188th MP Company while other members stayed behind to staff the new B Company (formerly the 188th) in the IV Corps Tactical Zone (Mekong Delta). Likewise in the 188th some members were transferred to DaNang, others to various local MP units and some remained.
 
August CPT Raymond F. Cox was transferred from his position of Provost Marshal Vinh Long to that of Adjutant to LTC Robert P. Schmitz, the 720th MP Battalion Commander.
 
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September With the downsizing of US troops under the Vietnamization Program, the 188th MP Company was to be reassigned from the Mekong Delta to DaNang.

     To expedite the change in location and lessen the logistical operation for the move, B Company was redesignated as the 188th MP Company and sent north to Da Nang.

     The 188th MP Company was redesignated as B Company and remained in the Mekong Delta where they continued to performed discipline, law and order, and convoy escort duties.
 
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     B Company 720th MP Battalion, CPT Dennis Fogarty Commanding, was redesignated as the 188th MP Company and sent to DaNang and became part of the 504 MP Battalion, I Corps Tactical Zone.

     The 188th MP Company, CPT Walter B. Koszyk Commanding, was redesignated as B Company of the 720th MP Battalion and remained in the Mekong Delta, IV Corps Tactical Zone.
 
     CPT Robert E. Connor the My Tho Detachment commander and MACV Team 75's MP advisor is transferred to the 720th MP Battalion as the A Company Commanding Officer.
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The newly merged 188th moves to DaNang for service with the 504th MP Battalion, 16th MP Group
 
     Elements of the Company were assigned to the Armed Forces Police at Freedom Hill, Camp David and Happy Valley, Camp Land, in the DaNang area of operations.
 
     The redesignated former B Company, 720th MP Battalion, now the 188th MP Company, became part of the 16th MP Group, 504 MP Battalion.
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What's Next Rubber Bullets SP/5 Robert C. Bogison, B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group & 188th MP Company, 504th MP Battalion, 16th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, July 1969 to September 1970.
 

     The 188th was located in a compound with the 504th MP Battalion at Camp David Land a US Marine Corps Base in "Happy Valley," Freedom Hill.

     Their duties were Armed Forces Police Patrols with the Marines and Air Force Security Police. They also had a combined MP Station in DaNang City.
 
 

Lick Your Chopsticks SP/4 Danny L. Welch, 188th MP Company, 504th MP Battalion, 16th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, October 1970 to August 1971.
 

     In the city they worked combined patrols with the Vietnamese National Police [Canh Sat], Military Police [Quan Canh] and the Republic of Korea [ROK] Military Police.

31 December CPT John L. Kuykendall passes command of the 188th MP Company to CPT Robert L. McClendon.