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1966 ~ Can Tho Time Line 560th MP Company, 716th MP Battalion, MACV ~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association ~ Vietnam History Project ~ This Page Last Updated 19 February 2008 |
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560th MP Company 3rd Platoon moves to Can Tho |
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March The 3rd Platoon of the 560th MP Company were assigned to the detachment in Can Tho. Members of the platoon initiated a construction project during which they reinforced the Vietnamese villa and constructed the outbuilding of the compound that would eventually be used as the Can Tho MP Headquarters and billets for the next seven years. Click here for early photographs of the 560th MP Detachment and construction project. |
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Views of Can Tho
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November The Radio Teletype Detachment, HQ Detachment of the 720th MP Battalion, assigned three communications specialist from Long Binh Post to the 560th MP Company, Can Tho Detachment, to operate a Radio Teletype Station. SGT Ronald Wonders, and SP/4’s Robert D. Bell and Carl G. Brewer, trained as MOS 05C - Radio Teletype Operators, manned the radio box located in a bunker beside the motor pool.
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They lived in the Villa with the MPs of the 560th. The three Radio Teletype Operators (RTTs) built the bunker with 55 gallon drums filled with sand and surrounded it with sand bags. During their shifts the RTTs received messages pertaining to captured enemy prisoners under their call sign of UL8K, and relayed them to Vinh Long, call sign 4SIJ. The unit was still operational in October 1967 when SP/4 Brewer departed. |
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