When the detachment was first formed in January there was no compound for them at Long Thanh (North) so the teams stayed at the 9th Infantry Division Bearcat base camp to the north until billets were constructed.

23 January With completion of the billets and kennels constructed by engineers from Bearcat with assistance of the detachment personnel, the approximately fifteen handlers and K9's moved into their new cantonment at Long Thanh (North).

     Of the four billets, two were for the enlisted men, one for the noncommissioned officers and one was the officers tent. When off duty the MP’s worked on construction of quality of life projects for the new facilities.

Personal Reflections  "As best I can remember there was maybe 10 teams at Long Thanh. Our NCOIC was a sergeant E-5 when I first arrived there and then after he rotated we were assigned a SFC named Teddy Smith.

     Our duties were perimeter security and the flight line, can't remember how many posts we had, each team would patrol a few hundred yards of perimeter. We ran two shifts from dusk to dawn. We ate at one of the aviation unit mess halls, not bad chow.  I don't remember too many units that were there, mostly aviation outfits.

     I do remember that there was an ASA (Army Security Agency) outfit that masqueraded as MP's and everybody called them XYZ because for some reason, I guess, that the ASA wasn't supposed to be in Viet Nam."  SP/4 Robin P. Baughman, 212th MP Company (Sentry Dog), 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, 1971-1972.