Photo G2080a:  Six of the members of the B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade detachment squad assigned to make a heliborne assault into the area of a hostile villager in support of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and 1st Infantry Division during Operation MANHATTAN, east of Tay Ninh City in the Dau Tieng Michelin Rubber Plantation area in Binh Duong and Binh Long Provinces, Vietnam on 25 April 1967. The MPs prepared for the first helicopter airborne combat assault in Battalion history. Front row, left to right, 1-SP/4 James M. Nickley, 2-Unidentified, 3-Unidentified, 4-SP/4 David A. Conklin. Back row, 5-unidentified, 6-unidentified. Not shown were SP/4 Allan Portnoy and SGT Berger or Beyer? If you can identify any of these MPs, please use this Email Link. Courtesy of SP/4 Alan M. Portnoy, B Company & 615th MP Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, October 1966 to October 1967.