The Integration and Employment of Military Police Companies in BCT Rotations at CTCs

摘要

Combat training center (CTC) rotations serve as the premier Army training opportunities for brigade and smaller units. As deployments have drawn down, CTC rotations have become the only measure of unit performance. Military police units continue to participate as attached enablers to brigade combat teams (BCTs). However, after action reviews from the past 2 years of National Training Center (NTC) rotations reveal that military police units have been arriving at NTC, Fort Irwin, California, inexperienced and unprepared to accomplish assigned missions in support of the direct-action fight. This article explains how one military police company addressed this issue by embedding with its BCT partner and how future military police/ BCT relationships should be structured to ensure mission success.