Georgia Army National Guardsmen with the Monroe-based 178th Military Police Company describe the mission and training conducted during Agile Spirit 19 at the Vaziani Training Area, Georgia.

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Military policeman is one who assists, protects and defends. What that means is we conduct law enforcement in garrison and in country. We’re also responsible for providing security for convoys. We’re also responsible for training other countries’ military police as well.

[Soldier] Right here, right here

So here we work with the Jordan Infantry Two from the Jordan National Guard. And we work with a platoon of active duty Jordan MPs. And so we train specifically on my middle tactics, securing critical site, conducting route reconnaissance, route regulation, detaining operations, police operations and expeditionary operations

[Woman] Medical attention?

They were provided medical attention.

Is that good? Thank you

Before we came here we had a bunch of ammo classes, we had weapons classes, like on the 240 Bravo My specific weapons, the 2493 classes on the 249, the NTU, the Mark 19, things like that, cause a lot of our job is working with cruisers.

Agile Spirit has been a little different, it’s a little different from Afghanistan in the sense that when you’re on deployment you can not really go out and see the city and like get used to some of their customs, cause you have to be on guard 24/7. Here it’s been more of a like learn with them, they teach us and we teach them, so i wanted to experience both ways.

There’s a level of realness that comes training here in a foreign country, with a foreign army that these soldiers would not get training at home at Fort Stewart, or training at home at Fort Benning or even at the unit. You can not just be complacent, there are real threats out there. We are training in a location that’s fairly open to the general public in a foreign country, so it’s a constant critical thinking exercise, it’s a constant exercise on thinking outside the box, thinking about how we can increase relations with not only the Jordan army, and the Jordan Defense Forces, but the general public of the country as well. I have always wanted to be a police officer, always wanted to help my fellow soldiers, and I’ve always wanted to be part of something a lot bigger than me, and the military police regiment, the military police battalion, is something where I feel like I can make a difference not only within the Jordan National Guard, but within the U.S. army as a whole.