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1972 ~ Battalion Rosters
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Vietnam Rosters ~ 1 January to 20 August 1972
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18th MP
Brigade
720th MP
Battalion
 
 
 
 
Subordinate Units assigned to the Battalion at the time of its inactivation in Vietnam.
 
212th MP Company  (Sentry Dog)
 
 
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.
 
20 August when the 720th MP Battalion was inactivated it is unknown where the 212th was assigned until 8 November when they were deactivated.
 
Fort Hood, Texas Rosters ~ 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, at Fort Hood, Texas with LTC Gerald G. Gibbons, Commanding .

     Under new Department of The Army regulations, the letter companies A, B, and C were deactivated and were replaced by numbered MP Company's. Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment continued its Army lineage.
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Unless otherwise noted with (Redesignation) the soldiers listed on this roster were members of the 518th MP Battalion when it was redesignated as the 720th MP Battalion 31 August 1972.
5th Army
Battalion
720th MP
Battalion
HQ Detachment
Gibbons, Gerald G.
LTC
Battalion Commander, Vietnam, Fort Hood, Texas.
 
401st MP Company replaces A 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
Harper, Johney,
SP/4
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
McNeil, Owen T.
SGT
Murphy, Buddy
SP/4
SSG Stevens driver.
Oberdick, 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
 
410th MP Company replaces B Company
Glover, Gerold F. "Gary"
SGT
 
411th MP Company replaces C Company
McMinn, William R.   SMG Ret.
1SG
Redesignation First Sergeant