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The rice paddies and scrubland of the Bong Son Plain hid movement at night, and for the military police companies tasked with securing roads and prisoner…

The winter of 1968 brought the fiercest fighting the Vietnam War had yet seen. As North Vietnamese forces surged across the country during the Tet Offensive,…

The waterways of the Mekong Delta form a labyrinth of silt, sampans, and submerged orchards that defined the working life of military police operating far from…

Phu Bai Combat Base sits a short drive south of the imperial city of Hue, tucked between coastal sand dunes and the foothills that climb toward the A Shau…

At Chu Lai, military police work unfolded around one of the busiest American military airfields in Vietnam. The ramp was a place of aircraft movement, fuel…

Military police played a quiet but essential role in the custody and movement of prisoners during the Vietnam War. They guarded holding areas, controlled…

Tuy Hoa occupied a strategically important position on Vietnam’s central coast. Its airfield supported American and allied operations in a region where roads,…

Cam Ranh Bay was one of the most important American military bases in Vietnam. Set beside a deep natural harbour on the coast, it became a busy centre for…

The alert at Phu Cat Air Base belongs to the wider security story of the Vietnam War, when military police, air base security personnel and combat units had to…

In the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, a firebase patrol could look routine from a distance: a small military police team moving between defensive…