It's hard to say what missions everyone had after H hour. Our team, SGT Paul Nopper, PFC Jesse Kailanen and PVT Michael White (3rd Platoon), worked with the 193rd Infantry.  We provided a security checkpoint on a road that lead to a communications site on a hill.  Basically, we road through some thick jungle up a dirt road.  I was the M60 Machine gunner but had to go to the shotgun for vehicle security at this point.  The jungle was pretty thick.
 
         Once we arrived at the hilltop, we mounted the M60 on top of a building and kept a vigilant eye on the road.  SGT Nopper worked the checkpoint while we supported with our weapon.  We took mortar fire a few hours later but it never got to the top of the hill, just along the ridge line.  Helicopter fire eliminated the Panamanian Defense Force (PDF) elements and the rest of the night we just listened to the 'sounds of thunder' from explosions in the distance.  The next morning SSG Phillip Grey came to our post and told us about the death of PFC Scott Roth and the wounding of PFC Eric Jones.
 
         We relieved the 1st platoon at the checkpoint outside Albrook Air Force Base the next day, PFC Roth's team and another team from 1st Platoon.  I remember the faces but not the names.  There was a black PFC and a white SPC that we all used to call "Guns."  He and PFC Roth were pretty close.  PVT Jason Siglar might have been there as well.  Hard to say.
 
         We worked the checkpoint mainly after that and I already wrote you about the incident there.  Members of the 3rd Platoon, provided Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) transportation as well as security on MSR's (Mission Supply Routes). 
 
         Towards the end of our time there, we worked the main gate at Fort Clayton.  When Dick Cheney came through (3 limo's), I was there.  Some of our guys ended up on assignments in Panama City, but after Roth's death and myself and SPC Robert Anderson getting shot at, I was in the rear working gates.  At the time, it was fine with me.

PVT Michael D. White, 3rd Platoon, 401st MP Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Brigade, 1989-1990.