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February 1971 ~ Battalion Timeline
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At the start of the year Battalion HQ Detachment, its organic letter companies (minus Bravo Company) and the 212th MP Company (Sentry Dog) were headquartered subordinate to the 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, III Corps Tactical Zone, Bien Hoa Province, Long Binh Post, South Vietnam.

Bravo Company was headquartered at Vinh Long, in Vinh Long Province, and the 22nd Provost Marshal Detachment at Can Tho in Phong Dinh Province, both in IV Corps Tactical Zone, Mekong Delta Region.
18th MP
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720th MP
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1 February

     1LT Paul A. Garwood was assigned as 1st Platoon Leader, and 1SG Charles Cameron as First Sergeant .

Tay Ninh Detachmen: The construction for the new PMO Desk facilities begun on 1 October 1970 were completed and became operational.

212th MP Company (Sentry Dog) Due to a shortage of enlisted personnel the Battalion initiated a program through which volunteers for Sentry Dog duty were recruited. A total of four enlisted men were ultimately selected from within the Battalion and underwent a four week period of on-the-job training and formal classroom instruction.

     The period of training commenced 1 February and ended 28 February at which time BG W. K. Wittwer, Commanding General, 18th Military Police Brigade, presented the four enlisted men with certificates of achievement. The Company was still 46 enlisted men and 26 sentry dogs short of its TOE authorized strength. This shortage of both handlers and dogs resulted in sentry dog support for the 307 CAB, Can Tho and for the 91st Technical Supply, Long Binh Post being held in abeyance pending receipt of additional handlers and K9's.

8 February

     MAJ Thomas L. Elliott was assigned as the Battalion S3 Operations Officer.
18 February

     The following new personnel, all with MOS 95B Military Police from CONUS were assigned from the 90th Replacement Battalion to the following organic units:

A Company; PVT Gary J. Dingass(spell?), PVT Paul D. Wilson, PVT David P. Russell, PVT Thomas F. Anderson, PVT John J. O’Neil, PVT James R. Cronin, Jr., PVT Dana J. Kimball, PVT Francis Killigrew.

B Company; PVT Stephen Mortarano, PVT Gregory J. Pro, PVT Paul J. Kummerlen, PVT Gerald Davis, PVT Kevin D. O’Connor, PVT Duane V. Hegna, PVT Richard J. Bosmans, PVT Bradley J. Pyse.

C Company; SP/4 Dale E. Hinkle, PVT Robert M. Bucci, PVT Horace J. Roberson.
20 February

     MAJ Robert W. Dalhauser replaced MAJ Gerald C. Burns as the Battalion Executive Officer (XO).
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