Military Police (MP) Town Patrol - The Big Picture
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Big Picture: Military Police (MP) Town Patrol
This episode will describe, dramatically, how the Army's colorful MPs protect our soldiers by guarding and guiding them.
"Well, if you're going to stay here, you better police up that uniform! And fix up your sleeves, too! And how many eyebrows were you issued?"
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Good stuff
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Or rather which caliber eyebrows were you issued? A .45 cal, seems like
Legend has it, those two Miltary Policemen are still on patrol to this day.
Yes. And their call sign is ADAM 12. Sure looks like Malloy and Reed 😂🚔
God gave his children freedom. No victim, no crime. Stands true. Looking at this, the natzie regime is proud. Absolute travesty what money push....reading scripture....we already know
We can only hope.
YES WE ARE!...."Always VILIGANT!"....always watching!..........
My father was a Sgt. in the Military Police in the Army in London, England in 1943 to 45. He always enjoyed talking about his war years and I loved to listen. He passed away with a heart attack in 1971 and I think of him everyday. He is missed terribly still. RIP dear POP
My grandfather fought on the frontline for Great Britain tor five years. Joined at age 16. Like your grandfather he LOVED talking about “Back in the war” discussing all the Germans He shot, etc. Never cried talking about any of it. He was at Dunkirk, Anzio, North Africa, Monte Cassinio, etc. Real frontline shit.
My grandfather was a tank commander and didnt drink so he would pick up his drunk crew mates before your grandfather got to the bar to bust them.
@@jackburton3701 My grandfather and his crew would start a fight with one another in clubs throughout North Africa and when the attention was diverted they would dip in that cash register and jet out. He’d then share the findings with his men to go visit local whore houses. Real shit.
They finally sent him home in 45 claiming he was “bomb happy”.
Your grandfather was a leader who gives courage to the rest of us. You should be very proud of him.
My Dad was an MP in the ARMY in the early 1950s...stationed in Germany. So neat to watch these classic films.
I've also seen footage of WAC MP units being deployed to various locations (Germany I think may have been one of them) during the Korean War. It makes sense honestly because no one knew what the heck was going to happen once China got involved there, and the Pentagon probably wanted as many men for combat readiness as possible. The footage of the ladies was dated 1951.
I was a MP but in late 90s and I went back after the towers fell till 2010 but my grand father was in during WW2 and he told me a funny story about MPs back then he said they cut a whole in the fence and they would stay out late and sneak back in he said one night it was fog and they couldn't find the whole and they heard someone yelling the wholes over here hurry up so they ran towards the voices and it was MPs hiding by the hole waiting for them LoL they didn't get in much trouble back then for stuff like that now days they would really throw the book at soldiers for that but that story he told us one of the reasons I think I chose MP. as my MOS.
My das was an MP CIC/CID in Bremerhaven Germany from 1946 until 1950 I was Born 1948 August. They the army send ihm to Korea into the war. My Moment and me we live still in Bremerhaven. Das didn‘t came back. He got later married in NC. So I grow up without him. It was a great time to have the Armed Forces over here until the left Bremerhaven. So I have the german citizenship. US facilities are everywhere in town and alot of litte MP Stations.Two times the MP‘s helped me earlyer that the german Citypolice. Great guys in the service.🇺🇸👍🏾🇩🇪thank u ✌️
I worked part time as a bouncer / doorman at Nightclubs. One night there were heaps of soldiers on the streets and I was approached by an MP. He gave me his name and phone number and asked me to call them if we had any issues with their boys. I only had to drop his name and the soldiers would instantly back off. They knew that they were being watched but some were a bit shocked that even nightclub bouncers were working with the MPs.
One of Bradford Dillman's first acting parts as one of the young MP's in 1955. In real life he was a Lieutenant in the USMC from 1951 to 1953.
I dated a state patrolman who once pulled over an AWOL soldier, drunk as a skunk, in a stolen Jeep. He was butt naked driving up rt. 11 back to Ft. Drum. All the more bizarre since it was -15 F.
Yep, sounds like some of the GI's I knew.
Man, the poor police guy...that's a visual you DON'T get out of your head. He must have been scarred for years.
@@thunderbird1921Lol 😮😢😅😅😂
My great uncle was an MP during WW2, he was the only survivor of 6 when a grenade was tossed into their tempory CP they set up in an abandoned building in France. My dad did 2 tours in Vietnam and never had any thing that came close.
I was an MP from 1965 to 1991. I commanded a division MP company (502d MP Co), the Army Crime Lab, and worked in the CID Command for many years, Stateside and in what was West Germany (Frankfurt District and 2nd Region). We had great Soldiers and Warrant Officers. They were top notch "on the road" and in the field; from the Tet operation in Saigon, South Vietnam to West Berlin, before the 'Wall came down. I salute eveyone who carried the MP MOS.
Do you remember the training Martin of the MPs?
I was in Rothwesten W. Germany MP dontcha know!...............due east of Frankfurt,......
I was an MP in the Berlin Brigade, 1987-1988.
I was a White Hat MP in Germany '75-78 in the 709th, mostly in Darmstadt. We stayed busy with drunks, drugs, terrible traffic accidents &an Army indifferent to having good equipment, or broken down equipment, (Pintos for patrol cars??) The politics & paperwork (7 copy scale diagram for fatal/injury/Army vehicle accidents) were ridiculous, but I learned a lot about communicating & how not to get whacked.
This was filmed in downtown Augusta, GA in/on Broad Street and Green Street. The Imperial theater is in the background of one scene and is still standing in Augusta today. The Augusta Chronicle newspaper office (three doors down from the theater and a four story building with 5 sets of three window groups on each of the upper three floors) is also captured in the same scene. Not surprising that it was filmed in Augusta since the MP school was located at Ft. Gordon and they used the Signal Corp film department (Signal Corp was and still is at Ft. Gordon) to produce the film. A relative of mine, who was in the MP school at Ft. Gordon circa 1965, told me, before I moved to Augusta, that Augusta was a nice town but they "rolled up the streets" at 6pm.
Any of those cool looking bars still around?
Probably not.
I was at MP Training School at Ft Gordon in Nov - Dec, 1963. Didn't spend any significant time in Downtown, Augusta. Went to Mannheim, West Germany in January and rotated out of the Army in August, 1966.
Good to know! My dad trained at Ft. Gordon in 1944.
I remember when USAMPS (US Army Military Police School) was at Gordon. Later, it was moved to Ft. McClellan, AL until that fort was closed down years ago. I have no idea where the school is located now.
@@mnpd3 the MP School/AIT is at Ft Leonard Wood, MO. The USMC MP School is also at Ft Leonard Wood, MO.
I was a military policeman in the Illinois national guard 933 mp Co. 1970 to 1976. It was a rewarding experience. Proud of that uniform
An interesting film for training Military Policemen and the public about their duties. I enjoyed the look into society in what I guess was the 1950s. Things looked a little different when I entered the USAF in the late 1960's... Thank goodness for the AP's who oversaw base security while I was in Vietnam fixing airborne electronics :)
I was born in 1949 and my father used to watch this show on weekend mornings. He was an MP during WW2.
1964 I was a 2LT at Fort Gordon going through the Signal Officer Basic Course. Four of us were goung out a side gate in my car to Augusta. A very young MP trainee required our class A pass. I was prior service and an MP for a while. I tried to explain officers do not carry passes, but the young trainee did not believe me. I had him call the Sergeant of the guard on his phone. I spoke to the NCO telling him whom we were. I had the trainee read our IDA cards and then he talked to thesergeant or rather the sergeant talked to the trainee. We went on to town.,the trainee learned something.,
What everyone loved, a brand new butterbar.
1950s Augusta - It's 11:30PM and most soldiers are heading to the bus station to get back to camp
2015 Augusta - It's 11:30PM and most soldiers are heading to the next bar
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In 74 we still road the bus. I think to the Whippin Post...still a little foggy from it. haha
1951 Augusta Camp Gordon...it's 11:30PM We ar
e too tired to go anywhere but to bed !!!!!!
This was my grandfather’s era as an MP when stationed at Ft. Richardson during the Korean War, bar fights between the Army and AF were typical in Anchorage.
Too much alcohol and soldiers...not a good combo.
So needed today in 2021 Bay area California...Chicago...NYC
The year was 1962, I was a 4yr old little boy raised in the Yesler Terrace Housing Projects in Seattle Wa. From the greater Seattle Tacoma area, to Bremerton and Everett, the entire Puget Sound region was extremely busy with military activity due to WW2, to Korea and Vietnam. There were several military bases: FT. Lewis, FT. Lawton, Mchord Air Force, Paine Field Air National Guard, Bremerton Naval Ship yard and Standpoint Naval Air Station. The entire area was swarming with GI's which meant the situation required a strong presence of Military Police etc..I recall seeing a 4 door black sedan with gold BOLD letters "Armed forces, Military Police", they would cruise throughout the housing projects looking for GI's who had overstayed their weekend pass. Just a little too much fun. That particular time left a lasting impact on the Puget Sound region, a LOT of babies were born, I know because I'm one of those babies. Ft Lewis was then home of the 4th Infantry division and it was my Dad's first duty station, he came into Seattle on a weekend pass and met both my Mother and Grandmother at a local night club. They got married shortly thereafter and as they say, everything else is history.
I remember watching this series Sunday morning before church
Thanks for this. Dad was nearly 30 when WW2 started. At 6ft 3 the Army thought he'd make a good MP stateside. All he said was it was rough, this from a man who would later serve in the invasion of Germany as a demolition specialist with the Combat Engineers.
1977 to 1990, US Army Military Police. The only thing that I saw anything close to this was in MP School.
yep...75 -78 543rd ft knox 536th germany. funny movie
Yep, we had to go to the Japanese police station was are only off base
Fort McClelland, AL?....I was there in 1977!
The Army dispensed with Town Patrols, AWOL Apprehension centers, off-road MP stations, etc.decades ago. Legally it still could, but there was little need after the draft ended. The Army changed from having to accept whatever riff-raff the draft boards sent it, to being able to pick and choose its people.
In W. Germany in the 80's, MPs were often assigned to German Polizei in big towns/cities and in special events. Mostly, the German government and US military preferred not to agitate anyone unless it was impossible to avoid.
yep I was a mp in army in late 90s till 2010 it's so much different now days I wish I could of served back then. mainly just checking ID cards at gate these days and when we deployed we just gaurded detainees that were captured by the troops not much of this anymore surely don't patrol outside the base.
Ask the Okinawans
Draft or no draft, a lot of riff raff still get into the Army. The Army is much smaller now and can rely on the local authorities to police the riff raff on liberty.
@@junkboxxxxxx I served in Okinawa, we didn’t patrol off base
Rockstar Games should made a game about to being an MP in cold war, but a bit better story than LA Noire.
Are you on crack?....wtfuck are you talking about shitbird?.............
Is there actually any video games about being a MP?
i grew up in a little town near stuittgart germany and we had a us base here and i can tell you man when there was some trouble in a club or bar and the mp went in they cleaned everything up for good those where some hard mf always swinging their sticks till there was no resistance left ^^
Excellent!
I'm originally from Augusta and was with the 140th MP at Gordon from 67-68 at Clark Hill Rec Area on boat and beach patrol and then again in 72-73 as Desk Sgt/Patrol Supervisor.
Patrol MP from 1970 to 76.. Man I hated those cross shoulder suicide straps! When breaking up fights at the nco club or elsewhere, people would / could get a hold of it and toss you around and get you off balance... That's why we called it a suicide strap. Same thing with the weapon lanyard for your 45 Cal plus it would get caught up on the car door handle as you were getting out... It got a few unwanted laughs... I could say a lot about my 6 six years of being an MP but I won't. Some things are better left unsaid. It was a time in my life that the worse thing I had to do was to fight with some young GI (like myself) that had come in for R&R from the bush to unwind. Some crazy shit that was... Now I will say that my partner never sat next to me that close while on patrol! I could be telling a different kind of story here if he had :)
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Yep, you guys had it rough back in the day.
I have a question... I was an MP in the small army base of CAMP DARBY.. italy..in the 90s..at that time if an american G.I.was a trouble maker outside the base..in other words in italian territory..the italian police called us.they couldn' t do anything to him..even outside the base....as I know now it is different: italian (or german..or japanese..or korean )police can stop you..and even put you in jail...even you are american military..can somebody confirm this?
@@pietroboggio1642 MP 70 to 76 with 3 yrs in Germany. Yes I believe they/we are held for US Command but not sure what conditions or under all kinds of charges.. Never had to deal with that so I don't know for sure.... I do know you NEVER fuck with the GP! If they say get out the car, GET OUT or they will pull you out through the window and are not nice about it! Saw that happen to some.. Do Not Fuck With The GP!
I never understand why some old school police use that sucide strap, like what's the functional and practical aspect of using it ?
@@nabilbudiman271 They said it was so your weapon couldn't be taken from you in a fight with someone but was more like what I said above.. Not a good idea at all! I Hated Them!
The Big Picture...remember watching these on TV as a child.
Predates my town patrol days but still interesting "training film" !
Warm, fuzzy presentation. Not the MP's I remember. The part I didn't see but was there in my day contains the description "Firm!". The way it was, the way it was needed.
Enjoyed the video. A bit before my time. I was drafted 1971 and served in the 140th MP Bn (Fort Gordon) then onto Co A, 728th MP BN (Seoul - Buyeoung/Sinchon) then Co C, MP Bn (Pusan - Texas Street patrol and occasionally to ChinHae (Green Street) to watch 500 pound bombs being off loaded from ships.
19:12 many people have said this before, but you can confirm this was shot in augusta by the brief glimpse of the highway signs on the right
and i gotta love how both the desk sergeant and the reckless driver were staff sergeants, that truly is the rank they give you when you’re too incompetent to be useful but just enough of a fuckup to need constant supervision
Are you smoking crack dumbfuck?..........
My Dad was a MP after the Korean War
My dad was a first sgt in the 1960s and 70s. I remember the middle of the night phone calls he used to get from the Air Force military police to come get one of the men in his squadron out of jail.
Fascinating.
My grandfather Samuel Lobrano was a MP at the Hanford Nuclear Facility Washinton State during WW2. (Atom Bomb Project)
That one MP @ the 18 min mark is Bradford Dillman from the Clint Eastwood movie "The Enforcer"
There is a nco at 21:00 who is going loose a stripe or 2 .
For its time when this was made this is a pretty cool film
It looks like actor Bradford Dillman playing one of he MPs
I think I would have liked to be an MP.
8:07 ...I agree. Pretty Sure that is Bradford Dillman (The Enforcer; Sudden Impact, Escape from Planet Apes)...he played in so many movies and TV.
Augusta, GA, 1955, I remember it well, but I was only 3 at the time. My father was stationed at then Camp Gordon- now Fort Gordon. One of my earliest memories is of a “pot” helmet that had been ran over by some tracked vehicle.
Good Stuff..
WWII and Korea,the same unit the 187th PIR(Airborne) Rakassans as my dad was in and the 1st Cav.They had a mutual understanding.So dad did not get arrested because the other MPs in the MSGT's unit had antagonized the situation.Dad looked after his soldiers as he looked after his sons.God bless dad.But I hated those brown jump boots!!!They friggin hurt!!!
I thought MY shifts were long in 545th MPs, 1st Cavalry Division, Ft. Hood!
These dudes are doing Day/Swing/Mid all at once!
Ooooo-Frickin-Ra!
Can you guys arrest a general if he’s not wearing his uniform properly while having fun on a night
@@gepo6882 An MP of any rank can even apprehend anyone up to the rank of Major General (2 Star), above that would require the Provost Marshall (highest ranking MP of the Division). At least thats how it was when I was in.
So funny when Majors, etc., would try to tell a PFC MP that they weren't authorized to write a ticket or apprehend an officer. WRONG! 😁
Got to be CAREFUL though! Could be a very bad career move! Hahaha! 😆
Oh! Improper uniform wearing wouldn't normally be an arrestable offense. Though it could ESCALATE to that. Things can get crazy quick and unexpectedly!
Good question! 👍
It always so cool how everyone's demeanor, manurisms, and speech-patterns (back then...) are like that of the original Batman! 😂
Why did we ever stop that???
MP at Fort Hood Texas, 1966 and 1967. Town patrol in Killeen and Temple Texas. Occasionally worked with civilian police in those towns. Loved the work, became a man in the process. If you make a derogatory comment, you offend me and the service I performed for my country. I was tremendously proud of my service and of my uniform.
Thank You for your service, Sir.
@@budb.8560Thank you
No they didn't let my man walk around with those eyebrows @12:27
My Dad was an MP in Korea during the war.
MP , town patrol, Anchorage, Alaska, 1970-71.
Oh, man just crazy, bloody crazy, all what we need now is a milage pass if the radius exceeds 150. Thats all. Its for sgli purposes. Now we go to houston and pother places just be sure to be there the next morning or on monday.
I was stationed in Augsburg, Germany in the 24th Infantry Division. It was around 1965 and 1967.
I would volunteer for "courtesy patrol" for the heck of it. Had no gun or power of arrest. Our job was similar to the MP's. Bar to bar to maintain the peace and help solders in need. I enjoyed it.
The event I remember most was going into a "black male only bar" White females were allowed.
When I walked in the place went quiet. As a Army musician I had many very good friends that were black. I even loaned them money without interest. Anyway after a few seconds of whispering among the black fellows one of them shouted "come on in man" and all went back to normal. It made my day. Those black folks were some of the nicest people I have ever known.
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Boyo!....does this bring back memories of being an MP!....WOW!
I was about 10-11yrs old and visiting my dad at the fire station one night. The police station was behind the FD. This Navy car came wheeling through the parking lot and I wanted to see what was happening. Another firefighter fresh back from Vietnam tells me to stand back and dont look. They were SPs going to the city PD to pick up a sailor that went "over the hill". All I remember the firefighter saying they were probably going to Virginia with this guy.
That part about the guys starting shit with each other and stopping after the MP's showed up, they got backwards. That's WHY they would have done it, because they knew the MP's were nearby and would break it up.
Good.
MP wonderful!!!!
I am waiting for Wally and the Beav to pop out.
The difference back then versus now in regards to uniforms. You don't wear your cover indoors, and YOU NEVER have your hands in your pockets like the one Soldier @ 7:33
If your under arms you wear your headgear inside example working on shift or like color guard.
Soba no we wear our PC while on-duty, nor do we go to parade rest or position of attention
Kyle K at bragg we have to wear are beret 😭
Anthony Yanez damn even the MPs? Cuz I know most of y’all are on active jump status so you wear them. I’m at Campbell so all we get is the sweet Air Assault wings and that’s it. But right now it’s fleece caps since it’s cold af 😂
Kyle K ugh yea lol jump status doesnt matter because the MP’S here only are in a Airborne battalion even if your a leg you still wear your maroon beret on shift. Regardless of if your airborne or the weather lol you got your patrol car and it gots heat. Only get to wear fleece cap only if your standing for like 45min. But im airborne lol
My great grandfather was a military policeman he had a lot of stories
Virginia Beach Police still had joint patrols with the Naviy in the late '90s also if they had a sailor involved in a minor scrape they'd call the navy and they'd take care of them.
my grandfather was an MP for the canadians in the korean war
Ah! I remember that face of that guy standing at the door of the "seedy bar" at 8:something to 8:35 but I can't put my finger on him.
Bradford Dillman from Clint Eastwood movies.
the navy stuck me on brig chaser detail(prisoner escort).yee haa!
That one with the handgun watched too many mafia movies.
Most proactive MP's I've ever seen
This should have been the LA noire dlc
later the actors playing MP in th lead roll 6:38 were popular on TV in the 1960-70s, Bradford Dillman is on the left, but who is the one on the right?
That was the problem with not allowing personnel out in civvies, asking for trouble
When my brother was at Camp Pendelton MPs brought in a guy who went AWOL... during Nam.
The good ole days of the ready night stick.
13:31 - to the green youngster who stayed home too long and feared he would be shot at sunrise. I love these old films.
Khakis and bloused boots. Awesome!
The khaki uniform was the best. It was comfortable and easy to launder. Plus you could wear all your "I love me ribbons" from the war on it. Low quarters were always worn with the khaki uniform, except for Airborne and MP soldiers. If anyone was wearing bloused khaki trousers he was one of the two. The Army got rid of its khaki uniform 40-years ago.
Wow grabe takot sila sa M.P💪disiplina talaga ang importante lalo na sa mga Pulis✌🏼❤️salute America 🇵🇭🙏🇺🇸
12:31 THEM FUCKIN' BROWS BRO
The times they change a lot
Andy Taylor and Barney Fife. The early years
A young Bradford Dillman is one of the MPs.
Yes that definitely is Bradford Dillman but Dillman did not serve in the army, he was in the Navy and the Marines.....
I love MPs!
What year is thisn
How come Sarge is not an Airborne Ranger CIB?
This was filmed in Augusta, GA. Wish I knew the year.....
I have a pic of my grandfather in the Philippines wearing a np band but was in the navy and wasn’t an mp . Did he just slap one on ? Seems off someone help plz
Ps . The band was on the right arm sleeve too , but I think some old cameras would print a mirrors picture ??
Anyone notice the eyebrows on that solider @ 13:00. My goodness !
When I was a mp I got a lot of experience in the backdoor but there were a few times I was ambushed from behind 😉 Thanks boys for all the fun you seamen really know how to show a guy a good time.
I was born in the wrong Era to be in the Army. (And to be a part of society.) 2021-Present. I would have loved nothing more than to be in the Army during the Cold war Era.
First thing you do as an M.P. at an accident scene is ensure the soldier is wearing his uniform correctly. FIRMLY.
Soldier - you better straighten out that gig line before you're in Leavenworth , making big rocks into small pebbles. And I'm telling you this " FIRMLY. " 😂😂😂😂😂
🔦Flashlight held so he can get out his weapon with his other hand.
a couple of mp, s saved my ass in germany in 1977 . i got drunk and rolled a dumptruck . my co ordered a substance test . the mp's ( a guy and girl about my age ) were days from ets ' ing . they said that he doesnt have that authority , only they do . they refused the substance test .
i alone wasnt responsible for that incident . the german local govt got us plastered and our lieutenant permitted it until things went bad . i was 18 yrs old .
Thank you for your service. From your description, I would say you WERE 100% responsible for that incident. #1) you decided to get drunk, #2) you decided you'd drive when you were so wasted, you #3) rolled a DUMPTRUCK. You weren't just lucky to get a couple of cool MPs, you were really lucky you didn't get yourself or other people killed. And now, at over 60 years old, you're still not accepting responsibility for your youthful stupidity. Wow!
Damn, back when I’d join the army as soon as I can. Now it’s all weird
9:18 "notice how each man has been trained to hold the flashlight away from their body in case that somebody aims at them"
can somebody please explain to me why they are trained to hold them AWAY from their body? does the thugs aim for the flashlight or above it?
Well, presumably you would be aiming where you think they are, in this case the flashlight,
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 ok
What year is this video?
Oof, I don't get to do that stuff as the MP Officer at my Military Academy :(
I want to patrol, but I got schoolwork to focus on.
Yu-Jen Tong Hargrave. My last year 😢
Yu-Jen Tong which one? I know of a few.
@Yu-Jen Tong Gotcha. Did y'all send guys to the Military Academy Band Festival for this school year?
I think our Band Company made mention of them.
Pool tables are Up-Stairs… and downstairs too
This is the neverending shift! LOL
I wonder what location is at 16:50?
Bet its changed a lot since 1954.
looks like georgia
They don’t make MP’s like this anymore
Actor Bradford Dillman!