~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association ~ Vietnam History Project ~

Photo G0534: Members of a B Company, 720th MP Battalion, Ambush Team in a Boston Whaler Skimmer on the river in the Battalion Tactical Area Of Responsibility, Vietnam sometime between 5 and 30 January 1970. From left to right: left front, (sunglasses) unidentified, right front (top of head showing) unidentified, (SP/4 with head down), unidentified, MP sitting in rear with M60 Machine gun belt ammo on is SP/4 David A. Johnson, who would later become a casualty when he and two other men from their ambush team drowned when their boat was swamped on the river while on their way to an ambush assignment on the evening of 31 January 1970.  If you can assist in identifying any of the men in this photo please notify the History Project Manager via this Email Link. Courtesy of SP/4 Eli I. Chavez, B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, February 1969 to February 1970.

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