Battalion 1966 Time Line Index
~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association ~ Vietnam History Project ~
"We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." ~ President Lyndon B. Johnson, October 1964

1 October The bulk of the 720th MP Battalion, less 24 men for an Advance Party, departed the Oakland Army Terminal, California, aboard the USNS [United States Navy Ship] General Daniel I. Sultan, destination, Long Binh Post, South Vietnam.

.4th Army
MP Corps
720th
Allied Troop levels In South Vietnam for 1966
South Vietnamese 735,900
American 385,300
Australian 4,530
New Zealand 160
South Korea 25,570
Philippines 2,060
Thailand 240
U.S. Casualties 1966: 6,053 Killed (all categories), 29,992 Wounded, 61 Missing In Action
720th MP Battalion Casualties 1966: 1 Killed In Action, WIA statistics unavailable.
North Vietnamese Army & Viet Cong : 71,473 Killed, with 3,247 captured in action.
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