[JavaTheHutt]

What is it with the military persecuting their own troops?

The MPs on the FOB I was stationed at in Iraq actually got out there radar guns at wrote sppeding tickets for violating a 15mph on base speed limit. They even chased down one of our ambulances carrying wounded soldiers to the battalion aid station and wrote the driver a ticket.

[leadpenny]

Tell me they didn't do that.

It does reminds me of the stories I heard about the sprawling base at Long Binh in 1970 while on my second tour. Some called it USARV HQ. while it was nicknamed Pentagon East. Supposedly there were courtesy patrols on the base that consisted of a field grade officer and a senior non-com. Their job, among other things, was to check for uniform violations and properly shined jungle boots.

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

I wonder what the presence of so many Reserve and Guard MP units might have to do with that. I also wonder how many JAG officers are over there. I get the impression that MP units are doing most of the convoy work and that there are too many of them and not enough shooters.

Does anyone know anything about this?

Michael Frazier

[Radix]

"They even chased down one of our ambulances carrying wounded soldiers to the battalion aid station and wrote the driver a ticket."

I cannot believe that this happened. How do you KNOW it? I'd like to know more.

Thanks for your service by the way.

[Larry Lucido]

They even chased down one of our ambulances carrying wounded soldiers to the battalion aid station and wrote the driver a ticket.

Seems like a ranking officer in your command should have had the balls to put a stop to that once and for all.

[91B]

The MPs on the FOB I was stationed at in Iraq actually got out there radar guns at wrote sppeding tickets for violating a 15mph on base speed limit. They even chased down one of our ambulances carrying wounded soldiers to the battalion aid station and wrote the driver a ticket.

I hope the Battalion surgeon threw an enormous fit and the BC threw it away (still, I'm not surprised that it happened-I've had to transport casualties in the back of my ambulance and they screamed bloody murder when we hit the speedbumps on the FOB).