720th
May 2008 Battalion Time Line
~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association History Project ~
This Page Last Updated ~ 6 October 2008
89th Bde.
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5 May, Ride to Remember: Fort Hood motorcyclists honor fallen MPs Fort Hood motorcyclists braved the early morning chill and gathered at the visitor control center at 8 a.m. for the 3rd Annual Fort Hood Ride to Remember to honor 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Soldiers who died in combat. Organizers sold ride T-shirts for a minimum donation of $15 with proceeds going toward maintaining the 720th MP Battalion Memorial. “There are a lot of motorcycle riders in the battalion,” said MSG Danny Weakley, HQ Detachment (rear guard) S2 Intelligence NCOIC and an organizer of the ride. After a quick safety brief and a prayer by the battalion chaplain, nearly 40 bikes sped out of the Visitors Control Center toward Interstate 195 with a police escort. The group stopped at a café in Florence to fuel up and grab a snack. From there they drove in staggered formation to
a motorcycle shop in Austin where they joined the Texas Peace Officers’ Memorial Foundation’s 7th Annual Capitol Ride for the Fallen. At 11 a.m., more than 450 bikes poured out of the motorcycle shop parking lot onto Interstate 35. The freeway was blocked off by police officers, who cleared the road to a location near the capitol where the group took over three stories of a parking garage. From there the riders walked across the street to the Texas Peace Officers’ Memorial Tribute.
 

14 May, Iraq Headquarters Detachment, 720th MP Battalion completes its tour in Iraq and conducts the transfer of authority to the 793rd MP Battalion at Camp Stryker.

18 May, Fort Hood Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 720th Military Police Battalion, returned to Fort Hood from their 15-month deployment to Iraq. Their plane touched down just after 1300 hours at Robert Gray Army Airfield. While deployed, the unit worked in Multi-National Corps–Iraq. There they conducted police transition training with the Iraqi police in Babel, Baghdad and Wasid. They helped train the Sons of Iraq, Iraqis who were either going to join the Iraqi Security Forces or work in the Iraqi government. The Battalion also provided security for the prime minister of Iraq, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, and the commanding general of Multi National Coalition–Iraq.

 
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