720th
November 2003 Battalion Time Line
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This Page Last Updated   2 April 2008
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Exact dates unknown, Kirkuk Elements of the 64th Military Police Company, operated the 173rd Airborne Brigade's Collection Facility at Camp Renigade, Kirkuk Airbase.

2 November, All Fallujah Insurgents shot down a CH-47 Chinook Helicopter transporting U. S. troops, initially killing 15 soldiers and wounding 27 others. The Chinook was one of two carrying dozens of soldiers on their way to Baghdad airport and leave. The Chinook was brought down by one of two portable, shoulder-fired missiles that were fired at it.

3 November, Highway-1 Due to a hightened alert as the result of the Chinook shoot down (2 November), members of the 411th MP Company and their Iraqi Police counterparts were assigned to construct checkpoints along the main artery running north from Baghdad, dubbed ``Highway 1,'' to look for weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles. SPC Andrew Fifield, 411th, and others yet identified worked the checkpoints.

15 November, 401st MP Company CPT Marc C. Blair who commanded the 401st since it's arrival in Iraq passed command of the company to CPT Jennifer K. Knight in a ceremony in front of a bombed out palace formerly owned by Saddam Hussein on FOB Ironhorse in Tikrit, Iraq.
 
Ambush At Sammura

30 November, Sammura Members of the 2nd Platoon, 64th MP Company were ambushed during a security escort while delivering Iraqi currency (ICE) to a bank in Sammura. The ensuing fire fight lasted 45 minutes during which SGT Philip G. Stow was severely wounded along with a Fijian civilian contractor.

        At the time of this action the members of the 64th MP Company, "Guardians," 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas, were serving with the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.
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