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Photo G0584: Left to right: CPT Burt D. Edmonson, Commanding Officer, B Company, Nguyen Van Duoc, Village Chief of Long Binh Tahn, Tran Van Cu and Mr. Loe, civilian translator-interpreter's for the Battalion, LTC Francis E. Payne, Battalion Commanding Officer, CPT Michael E. Lenhart, Commanding Officer, A Company in lower left hand corner. The meeting in the Battalion Commanders office on Long Binh Post, Bien Hoa Provence, III Corps Tactical Zone, Vietnam in 1967 was to discuss the implementation of Operation STABILIZE, a long term counterinsurgency-pacification mission assigned to the 720th MP Battalion by the 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade. Courtesy of CPT Michael E. Lenhart (COL Ret.), Commanding Officer, A Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, 1967 to 1968.