The facility was staffed by a group of approximately ten members of the Uniformed Service Police, and day and night security was provided for the compound by a squad of local Village /Popular Forces Militia (PF). The police officers were lightly armed with .38 caliber revolvers, and the PF's carried WWII surplus M-1 rifles and carbines.

    Their communications capabilities consisted of a desk mounted military radio and insecure military telephone service connecting them to Bien Hoa and Tu Duc  National Police and ARVN headquarters.

    When present, the Village civil governments elected "Chief" occupied a lone desk within the building. There was also a wall map made of plywood that contained small three-dimensional building outlines of the various structure with the village proper.

      When the battalion assigned Bravo Company to take over total operations in the Tactical Area of Responsibility (TAOR) on 26 June 1968, two MPs were assigned to the compound as permanent staff for added security and to perform liaison services.

      The station handled all Vietnamese civil law violations within the TAOR as well as serving as a holding facility for known and suspected Viet Cong pending their transfer to the ARVN Bien Hoa Headquarters or other military intelligence units. All civil police suspects were detained in the village for eventual transport to the Tu Duc District Headquarters of Bien Hoa Province.

Taken November 1967

      Once a week they were permitted to return to post for hot meals, and showers. The only regular contact they had with the other members of the company was visits by the company operations sergeant, ambush teams on patrol, and on payday each month when a platoon leader would stop by. It wasn't the best of duty but there was no grounds maintenance work, and with the volume of daily traffic there was enough to stay busy so time passed quickly.

      At night the two MPs joined the local PF's in ambush patrol within the village limits several nights a week. With the exception of the night security mission, the daytime assignment was strictly a liaison function. On occasions ambush squads would be assigned to increase the stations night defenses when intelligence on impending enemy activity in the village warranted it.

      The National Police stationed at the compound dealt mostly with civil violations of Vietnamese Law. There were no Field Forces Police stationed there on a full time basis. The Field Forces Police were paramilitary and concerned themselves exclusively with counter insurgency operations against the Viet Cong.

      Since it was a liaison duty station and not an MP desk, not much in the way of U.S. operations were involved. The TAOR was an off limits area to U.S. military personnel (other than legitimate 720th MP Battalion assignments) and with Outpost #3 and #4 located at the only roadway entrances to the area, very little unauthorized U.S. military traffic got through the OP check points.

      Enemy activity directed at the police station consisted mostly of harassment sniper fire, and even that was very rare. To date only two serious attacks are known to have been directed against the police station or its police officers while the TAOR was under battalion control. None occurred after Bravo Company assumed the operation.

      In one on 27 March 1968, two police officers were ambushed with grenades in An Xuan Village on their way to the station, both officers survived their wounds but two young village children walking to school died.

     In the other on 1 May 1968, an enemy squad attacked the compound with small arms fire wounding one PF and several villagers including a young child that lived in an adjoining house.

    In an unrelated incident on 20 October 1968, one of the MP liaison staff was severely wounded on his last day in country during an enemy ambush when he decided to leave the safety of the compound and accompany an ambush platoon squad night patrol in the village. He recovered from his wounds as did the scout dog handler who was walking point.

    In 1969, as related by SP/4 Jack H. Buckner, Jr. (SSG Ret), B Company, a Buddhist and Catholic religious dispute between a PF and policeman started in the village. The former shot the latter and fled to the safety of the compound and his fellow Catholic PF's. The MP staff immediately departed for safer ground when the other Buddhist policemen responded and surrounded the facility threatening to attack. Fortunately cooler heads prevailed and the District Chief from Bien Hoa was able to negotiate a peaceful ending. The policeman recovered from his wound.

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