Guides

716th MP Battalion at Tan Son Nhut: A Mortar Attack Remembered

The 716th Military Police Battalion held a singular responsibility during the Vietnam War: the protection of Tan Son Nhut, the sprawling air base that anchored…

Holding the Line: Military Police and the Security of Khe Sanh Combat Base

The highland stronghold of Khe Sanh sat within a ring of jungle-covered ridges barely twenty kilometres from the Laotian border, its remoteness matched only by…

188th MP Company Patrol Operations in Ba To District

The rice paddies and forested ridges of Quang Ngai Province carried a weight few landscapes could match during the late 1960s, and within that terrain the…

Military Police and the Sapper Assault on Camp Evans

The first hours of February 1968 reshaped how American military police understood their wartime mission, and nowhere was that lesson written more vividly than…

The 212th MP Company and the Saigon Chop Chop Incident

The 212th Military Police Company occupies a distinctive corner of the conflict's long memory, recalled by those who served alongside its members and by…

The Last Stand at Fire Support Base Ripcord: An MP's Account

A young military police sergeant crouched behind a sandbag wall on a ridgeline in the Que Son Mountains, listening to incoming rounds tear through the morning…

The 545th MP Company at the Bu Gia Map Outpost

The Bu Gia Map outpost occupied a difficult place in the geography of the Vietnam War. Located in the uplands of Phước Long Province, close to the Cambodian…

Military Police and the Fire Base Charlie Threat Response

Fire Base Charlie was one of the most heavily contested fire support installations along the Demilitarized Zone in 1967, and the military police who secured…

The 95th MP Battalion and the Cam Ranh Bay convoy

The vast logistical network that kept American and allied forces supplied during the Vietnam War depended on thousands of convoys moving through hostile…

Securing LZ Uplift: The 720th MP Battalion in the Central Highlands

The Central Highlands of South Vietnam saw some of the most contested ground of the entire war, and within that vast, forested battleground sat a chain of…

A tribute to the Military Police who served in Vietnam
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Military Police pause to reflect after the battle for the American Embassy during the 1968 Tet Offensive.