401st MP Company (Always First) Company HQ, along with 2nd and 4th Platoons, continue to live and work out of Camp Rustamiyah. Third Platoon resides on FOB Slayer and is tasked to support the 42nd MP Brigade, while 1st Platoon remains attached to HQ Detachment, 720th MP Battalion and XVIII Airborne Corps. The unit continues to perform a myriad of missions in support of the 720th MP Battalion throughout central Baghdad and Iraq.

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64th MP Company (Guardians) Still operating out of Camp Rustamiyah, and have fully engaged the Iraqi Police Services (IPS) in all aspects, recruited and shipped over 100 IP applicants, and escorted dozens of special purpose missions. They continue training the IP’s to police their neighborhoods and conducted joint (instructional) patrols. During the first IP recruiting drive, for just over 100 slots, over 2,500 perspective Iraqi applicants applied. Those accepted were required to be able to, read and write, pass a background check, and a physical training test before they were escorted to the Police Academy in Baghdad. The 1st Platoon replaced 3rd Platoon at Camp Cooke in Taji.

C Company, 1st Battalion, 182 Field Artillery Currently the company elements oversee 30 Iraqi Police stations. Duties have shifted slightly since the last update from Force Protection and Mentoring to Joint Patrols and Weapons Training (AK-47, Glock 9mm and BKC Automatic Machine Guns). SGT Alzner and SSG Mintock were chooses as the company’s Sustainers of the Month. Their dedication, along with all of the maintenance section soldiers, have allowed our soldiers to not only keep their vehicles rolling and on missions, but also 10 & 20 level standards. 313th MP Detachment (Black Sheep) The Detachment is still living and working out of FOB Shield providing instructors for the Baghdad Police Academy. FOB Shield is now about one third of its original size, with constant activities continuing to improve, upgrade and remodel the current structures. The phone center has expanded and a small trailer PX is in place along with a new barber shop. The weather is also changing, with temperatures ranging from 100 to 110 degrees and expected to climb to 140 degrees by summer. Battalion Sustainer of the Month (support soldier, non-MP), SPC Breese, 401st MP Company, communications specialist, recognized for his proficiency on the Blue Force Tracker” system. His efforts enabled the company to maintain visual / digital communications with distant elements conducting combat support missions while operating on the battlefield.

1 May 1SG Guthrie of the 64th was reassigned to Battalion, 1SG Perrie of the 401st was transferred to take his place.

6 May Members of the 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon, “Wolfpack,” 64th MP Company, at the Al Sha'ab Iraqi Police Station, Baghdad.

The Iraqi Police Service (IPS) graduated 1,903 from the Baghdad Police College. The Baghdad class included 45 female police students.

8 May Marv L. Conover, A Company (401st), Vietnam, 1967-1968, visited the Moving Wall Vietnam War Memorial at the New York State Fairgrounds, Syracuse, NY, with his family on Mothers Day.