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Photo G0398: A handler provides water to his K9 being transported in one of the cargo pallets holding the K9’s from the C130 transport plane that carried the 71st MP Detachment (Dog Platoon HQ), 209th MP Detachment (Dog Platoon HQ), 221st MP Detachment (Dog Platoon HQ), 72nd MP Detachment (Dismounted Patrol), 26th MP Detachment (Supervisor), 45th MP Detachment (Animal Care) to Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon from Travis Air Force Base, California. All would later become the 88th MP Co (K9) before being redesignated as the 212th MP Company (Sentry Dog) on 17 January 1966. Courtesy of SP/4 Dan Byrd, 88th (K9), MACV & 212th MP Company (Sentry Dog), 89th MP Group, MACV, & 95th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, August 1965 to August 1966.