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File: 080596_jun96_decls21_0202.txt
Subject: 24TH MECH INF DIV OPERATION DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT
Box ID: BX001437
Document Number: 2
Folder Title: 24 MECH INF DIV AFTER ACTION REPORT
Folder Seq #: 785
Unit: 24TH ID
Parent Organzation: XVIII CORPS
UNCLASSIFIED
06/01
JULLS LONG REPORT
1. (U) JULLS NUMBER: 51975-83321 (00003), submitted by PROVOST
@ SHALL, 24 ID, 870-5516, (912)767-5516.
2. (U) No type OPN DESERT STORM NOTES conducted by 24 IN DIV (Ml
on 05/20/91.
3. (U) KEYWORDS: MILITARY POLICE, FORCE STRUCTURE, LAW
ENFORCEMENT,
4. (U) TITLE: STRUCTURE OF THE MILITARY POLICE COMPANY
5. (U) OBSERVATION: The division military police company is
not structured to perform sustairment operations where law
enforcement operations are required.
6. (U) DISCUSSION: The 24th MP Company is presently authorized
five platoons of 21 soldiers. During OPERATION DESERT SHIELD
STORM, the 197th Bde with their organic military police
increased the total assigned military police within the division
to six platoons. In October 1990, a military police company
from the 16th MP Bdo was attached to the division under the
operational control of the Provost Marshal. During OPERATION
DESERT SHIELD the focus of MP operations was on circulation
control and area security. One platoon from the 24th MP Company
and one platoon from the 211th MP Co were in training when
conditions and commitments allowed. Without the corps slice,
the division MP company would not have been able to provide
support to the division without serious degradation to the
organic company's training. It is apparent from this deployment
that the division military police company, as organized, cannot
provide support to the division as the majority of commanders
ysical
security assistance, aggressive patrolling, and the countering
of level one and two threats would not have been feasible
without the additional manpower. In a tactical situation where
immediate combat activity occurs, the MP Company can provide the
minimum assistance required. When lines of communication are
extended, there are no MP in the rear to assist base and cluster
commanders in the countering of threats. When the division
establishes long-term defensive positions and a garrison-style
operation in the rear, augmentation is r @ ired.
7. (U) LESSON L ED:
1. Division commanders expect assigned / attached MP
assets to police the division area of responsibility including
road networks within its boundaries.
2. Limited law enforcement operations will be conducted
and will require @artise in the MP organization which is not
organic the the MP Company.
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File Room = jun96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-22
Box ID = BX001437
Unit = 24TH ID
Parent Organization = XVIII CORPS
Folder Title = 24 MECH INF DIV AFTER ACTION REPORT
Folder Seq # = 785
Subject = 24TH MECH INF DIV OPERATION DESERT STORM AFTER A
Document Seq # = 50
Document Date =
Scan Date = 12-JUN-1996
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 02-AUG-1996