720th
October 2007 Battalion Time Line
~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association History Project ~
89th Bde.
This Page Last Updated ~ 6 October 2008
 
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Date Unknown The 245th Engineer Company ("Essayons") completed their deployment and departed Iraq and the 720th MP Battalion to return to the 45th Infantry Brigade (USARNG) in Oklahoma.

 

10 October, 1900 hours A total of 14 rockets fired from an abandoned school 5 miles away struck Camp Victory, which is located in the western sector of Baghdad next to the International Airport. The rockets killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded 38, seven of the wounded were Soldiers Of The Gauntlet from the 401st MP Company. Two third-country nationals were also wounded in the attack. The wounded MP’s of the 401st were, 1SG Brian A. Flom, SGT’s Paul T. Adams, Donald D. Womack, Hubert L. Parsons, CPL Nicholas W. Butler, SPC Paul A. Mancino, and PFC Dominic J. Prankienas.
401st
 
29 October The 18th MP Brigade, out of Mannheim, Germany, officially assumed control of the Iraqi Police Transitional Team mission from the 89th MP Brigade, at a Transfer Of Authority ceremony at Contingency Operating Base Victory. The authority change placed HQ Detachment of the 720th MP Battalion subordinate to the 18th MP Brigade for the remainder of its current tour.
18th Bde.
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