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95th Military Police Battalion
Seventh Army
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Bn History (19..-19..)

HHD

Co "A" / 272nd MP Co

Co "B" / 66th MP Co

Co "C" / 59th MP Co

230th MP Co

351st MP Co

529th MP Co

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95th MP Battalion History
HISTORY OF THE 95TH MILITARY POLICE BATTALION 

The 95th Military Police Battalion was constituted 8 June 1945 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 95th Military Police Battalion and activated at Lenggries, Germany on 8 July 1945.  

The 95th MP BN was located at Brake, Germany and was inactivated there on 24 June 1946.

On 24 October 1950, the 95th MP BN was allotted to the Regular Army, and activated 30 October 1950 in Korea during the Korean War, where it would remain until it was inactivated 15 August 1954.  

HHD of the 95th MP BN was activated at Fort Riley, Kansas, 25 November 1965, with Companies A, B and C, and deployed to Vietnam. The unit sailed out of Oakland Port of Embarkation aboard the USNS Upshur and the passage across the Pacific took 28 days with stops in Hawaii, Yokohama and Okinawa, arriving in Vietnam 11 April 1966, assigned to the 89th MP Group, Tan Son Nhut. LTC Hugh Riddle was the Battalion Commander with Major Dave Anderson as the Battalion Executive Officer. During August 1966, the 95th MP Battalion relocated to Long Binh and provided support for command and control, staff planning, criminal investigations and supervision for administration training operations and logistics to assigned and attached units in the III Corps Tactical Zone of Vietnam.

The 95th MP BN remained in Vietnam until it redeployed to Fort Lewis, Washington and was inactivated on 13 April 1972 and assigned to U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR).  

On 21 March 1973, Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and Companies A, B and C, 95th Military Police Battalion was activated in Germany. HHD, 95th MP BN was headquartered in Wertheim and the Companies were located in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, and Kaiserslautern. HHD, 95th MP BN would later relocate to Taylor Barracks, Mannheim, Germany.  

 95th MP BN locations in Germany  
  HHD, Wertheim/ Taylor Bks,Mannheim

Co "A" / 272nd MP Co, Mannheim, Sullivan and later Taylor Bks

Co "B" / 66th MP Co,  Karlsruhe, Smiley Bks, det at Heidelberg

Co "C" / 59th MP Co, Husterhoeh Ks, Pirmasens, with dets in Worms and Zwiebrucken. (Aug 1993, 59th MP Co was deployed to the U.S. and located at Fort Carson, CO)

  230th MP Co, 95th MP BN, Rhein Ordnance Bks (ROB), Kaiserslautern (Co B, 94th MP BN, Pulaski Bks was redesignated as the 230th MP Co, 95th MP BN) 

COMPANY A, 95th MP BN:  During 21 March 1973, Company C, 94th MP BN, Turley Barracks, was re-designated as Company A, 95th MP BN and located at Sullivan Barracks and later relocated to Taylor Barracks, Mannheim. During June 1977, Company A, 95th MP BN was re-designated as the 272nd MP Company, 95th MP BN, 21st Theater Support Command, Taylor Barracks, Mannheim.  

COMPANY B, 95th MP BN:  During 21 March 1973, Company B, 95th MP BN, was activated at Smiley Barracks, Karlsruhe, Germany. During 21 June 1976, Company B, 95th MP BN was re-designated as the 66th MP Company, 95th MP BN, Smiley Barracks, Karlsruhe, with a detachment in Heidelberg.  

COMPANY C, 95th MP BN:  During 21 March 1973, Co B, 94th MP BN, Pulaski Barracks, Kaiserslautern, was re-designated as Company C, 95th MP BN and was headquartered on Husterhoeh Kaserne, Pirmasens. During June 1977, Company C, 95th MP BN, Pirmasens, was re-designated as the 59th MP Company, 95th MP BN, headquartered in Husterhoeh Kaserne, Pirmasens, with detachments in Worms and Zweibruecken.  In August 1993, the 59th MP Company relocated from Germany back to the United States and was assigned to HHD, 759th Military Police Battalion, Fort Carson, Colorado.   

(Note: That Co B, 94th MP BN was re-designated on 21 June 1976 as the 230th MP Co, 95th MP BN is being verified) 

230th MP Co, 95th MP BN: Company B, 94th MP BN, headquartered Pulaski Barracks, Kaiserslautern on 21 June 1976 was re-designated as the 230th MP Company, 95th MP BN, 21st Theater Support Command, headquartered at Rhein Ordnance Barracks (ROB), Vogelweh - Kaiserslautern, with detachments in Zweibrucken and Pirmasens, Germany. (Note: The 230th MP Company was previously located at Camp Darby, Italy. The 94th MP BN was deactivated on 21 June 1976 in Germany).
 
If you have more information on the history or organization of the 95th MP Bn, please contact me.
 
Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment, 95th MP Bn
 
 
 
 
 
Co "A," 95th MP Bn / 272nd MP Co
 
 
 
 
 
Co "B," 95th MP Bn / 66th MP Co
 
(Source: Email from Brent Becker, B Co, 95th MPBn and 66th MP Co, March 1976-May 1977)
On 21 June 1976, Company B, 95th MP BN was re-designated as the 66th MP Company, 95th MP BN, with headquarters at Smiley Barracks, Karlsruhe,

B Co/66th MP Co

 

1. Guard mount at Smiley Bks (KB)
2. Bicentennial float (KB)

3. Convoy escort (KB)

4. 90 km raft trip (KB)
5. Exercise ABLE ARCHER (KB)
6. Exercise ABLE ARCHER (KB)		  

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9. (KB)		  
 
Co "C," 95th MP Bn / 59th MP Co
 
(Source: Email from Dick Burke)
The 59th Military Police Company was re-activated in 1957 at Bremerhaven, FRG and furnished port security and pulled routine MP duty in the Bremerhaven Port area and provided MP Patrols in the Bremerhaven area in support of the Bremerhaven Provost Marshal Law Enforcement Mission.

During 1965, the Bremerhaven PMO became a detachment of the 510th MP Detachment-Area Provost Marshal (APM) Hessen Area, headquartered in Giessen, Germany.

The 59th MP Company supported the 510th MP Detachment/Area Provost Marshal, Hessen Area conducting Port Security and the law enforcement mission within the 510th MP Detachment, Bremerhaven area of operation (AO).

In June 1969, the 59th MP Co was assigned to the 709th Military Police Battalion, remaining at Bremerhaven and providing MP support to the 510th MP Detachment.

Former members located in Pirmasens, Worms and Zweibrücken will remember the call signs: Pirmasens " PRIME RIVET" Worms " WIZARD DEACON" Zweibrücken "GRAINY MOTH".

On 29 April 1971, due to realignment of MP units within USAREUR, the 59th Military Police Company was deactivated and replaced with Co A, 709th MP BN in the Bremerhaven area.

In 1977, Co C, 95th Military Police Battalion, Husterhoeh Kaserne, Pirmasens was re-designated as the 59th MP Company, headquartered in Pirmasens with Platoons in Worms and Zweibrücken.

On 20 October 1993, the 59th MP Company was redeployed from Germany to Ft. Carson, Colorado.
 
1971
(Source: Email from Lowell May)
Here is some information on the 59th MP Co.

I was the 1SG of the 59th from Oct 1977 to Oct 1980. When I arrived the 59th had one platoon in Bremerhaven at Schultz Kaserne and one platoon in Zweibrucken, the company headquarters and one platoon were located at Husterhoeh Kaserne at Pirmasens. Due to the distance it was hard for us to support the platoon in Bramerhaven. Therefore, the colors of the Bramerhaven platoon and the 64th MP Det. which was located in Worms were switched. Now the Company was at Pirmasens, Zweibrucken and Worms and it was easier to support our two outlaying platoons.

I know at one time, 1959, the entire 59th was located in Bramerhaven.

There is nothing on the MP Units page about the 64th MP Detachment or the 110th MP Platoon. The 110th MP Platoon was at Kelly Barracks, VII HQ. I was assigned to the 110th in 1961 to 1962. We were security for VII HQ and were the honor guard platoon.

When I first went to Germany, Jan 1960, I was assigned to the Security Platoon, 630 Ord. Co., 40th Arty Gp. When it was time for me to be reassigned I was placed TDY to the Mainz Det. of B Company, 382 MP Bn for 60 days until my new assignment was made. The Mainz Det was made up of MPs from B Co., 8th MP Co. (all of the 8th MP Co. MPs in Mainz were airborne) and six of us from the 40th Arty Gp.

Hope this information helps.
 
1973
(Source: Email from Frederick A. Schadeck)
On 21 March 1973, Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and Companies A, B and C, 95th Military Police Battalion were activated in Germany.

HHD, 95th MP BN was headquartered in Wertheim and the Companies were located in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, and Kaiserslautern. HHD, 95th MP BN would later relocated to Taylor Barracks, Mannheim, Germany. I happen to know for fact that C company, 95th MP BN was stationed in Wurzburg and Kitzingen during this period. I was the last man out of the unit after it was changed to B company 793rd and assigned to Nurenburg's HQ.

You also leave out the double unit citation 95th MP earned due to being wiped out to the man in Viet Nam and Korea. It was no small secret that the unit was reactivated in Germany temporarily so it could be deactivated without taint of having been wiped out.

C Company, 95th MP BN, 15th Brigade, Kitzingen and Wurzburg -- In late 1975 as I recall we were changed to B Co, 793rd MP with BN HQ in Furth (Nuremberg).

I was one of the very few "transitional" VOLAR MPs who were later tasked with training all the replacement MPs shipped from stateside after the draftees not choosing to re-enlist were released in Dec 1974. I also personally trained the first female Line Duty MPs assigned to our Battalion. I also was one of 12 MPs chosen to train all the new MPs being sent to Bamburg. The 15th Brigade messed up and only had draftees in Bamberg, so they had no resources. We had to maintain patrols and OJT all the stateside transfers until the unit was up to strength from January 1975 through March 1975.

Let's just say I had a very busy 3 year tour.

 

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