After 18 days of inactivation since leaving South Vietnam on 13 August 1972, the 720th MP Battalion HQ Detachment was reactivated when the 518th MP Battalion HQ Detachment, and its subordinate MP Companies, was redesignated as the 720th MP Battalion, 5th Army, III Corps, LTC Gerald G. Gibbons Commanding, during ceremonies at Fort Hood, Texas.
The Battalions three subordinate companies were now the 401st, 410th, and 411th MP Companies, each with its own historical lineage.
The lineage of the 401st has yet to be posted by the Center of Military History.
The 410th was constituted 15 May 1945 in the U.S. Army as the 1401st MP Company, and activated in the Philippines, and inactivated 25 March 1946 in Japan.
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