720th
1972 Roster ~ 720th MP Battalion
South Vietnam & Fort Hood, Texas
~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association ~ History Project ~
18th Bde.
5th Army
 
This Page Last Updated   8 April 2008
 
Battalion Vietnam Roster ~ 1 January to 20 August 1972
 
Surbordinate Units assigned to the Battalion
212th MP Company  (Sentry Dog)
 
20 August when the 720th MP Battalion was inactivated it is unknown where the 212th was assigned until 8 November when they were deactivated.
20 March the 95th MP Battalion was inactivated and 615th MP Company was again reassigned to the 720th MP Battalion until it became inactivated 20 August. The 615th remained in Vietnam until 27 March 1973.
 

Battalion Fort Hood, Texas Roster ~ 31 August to 31 December 1972
31 August 1972 After 18 days of inactivity since leaving Vietnam on 13 August the 720th MP Battalion was reactivated when the 518th MP Battalion was redesignated as the 720th MP Battalion, 5th Army, III Corps, LTC Gerald G. Gibbons, Commanding, during ceremonies at Fort Hood, Texas.
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Unless noted otherwise the soldiers listed on this roster were members of the 518th MP Battalion when it was redesigtnated as the 720th MP Battalion 31 August 1972.

31 August the 518th Military Police Battalion was redesignated as the 720th MP Battalion at Fort Hood, Texas and, under new Department Of The Army regulations, the letter companies A, B, and C were deactivated and were reverted to their historical numerical MP Company designations.

HQ Detachment
Gibbons, Gerald G.
LTC
Battalion Commander, Vietnam, Fort Hood, Texas.
 
A Company becomes the 401st MP Company
Besecker, Kenneth
CPT
Commanding Officer
Magelky, Bruce
CPT
Commanding Officer
Burgland, Leonard
LT
Platoon Leader
Lee,
LT
Platoon Leader
Cope, Robert
LT
Platoon Leader
 
Arnold,
SSG
Supply NCO
Buchanan, Bryan
SP/4
Camp,
SP/4
Cruz, Roland
SP/4
DeLeon, Daniel
SGT
Elerick, Ron
SGT
Hamm,
SGT
Hyde, John M.
SP/4
Served with A Company then 615th in Vietnam, transferred to Fort Hood and the 401st when 720th stood down in Vietnam.
Holmes,
SP/4
Traffic Unit
Jackson,
SSG
Kanouse,
SGT
Desk Sergeant
McNeal,
SGT
Murphy, Buddy
SP/4
Overdick, Bruce
SP/4
Payne,
SP/4
Phillips,
SP/4
Traffic Unit
Pritchard,
SP/4
Roberts,
SGT
Rockweit, Kent
SP/4
Spurlock,
SSG
Platoon Sergeant
Stevens, Fred "Scooby"
SSG
Patrol Supervisor.
Still, Howard
SP/4
Totten,
SSG
Weaver,
SP/4
Traffic Unit
West,
SGT
Wood,
SGT
 
B Company becomes the 410th MP Company
 
C Company becomes the 411th MP Company
McMinn, William R.   SMG Ret.
1SG
Redesignation First Sergeant