MP, MP, don't arrest me!
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Topic: MP, MP, don't arrest me!
Posted By: GroupB
Subject: MP, MP, don't arrest me!
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 2:33pm
Just got back from a meeting with the PMS. I got my first branch choice which was MP and will most likely be spending the next 7 years in Germany!
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 2:36pm
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Grats, sir. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 2:44pm
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 2:45pm
| lol PMS |
Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 3:15pm
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Great, PM me need a source for German N guage model railroad supplies.
Why MP? ------------- 
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 3:29pm
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in b4 "Ya can't spell WIMP without MP!" Congrats and good luck! ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 3:34pm
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^^^You can's spell "STOMPED" without "MP" either. -------------
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 3:37pm
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Or "Swamp ass." ------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 3:39pm
If you are not infantry it is like joining the football team to be the waterboy. NO matter what MOS you have you support the Infantry, for until there is an infantryman standing on that piece of ground with his rifle stating this area is now mine, the other MOS's have not properly done their job.  -------------
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 3:45pm
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Congratulations man, sounds like you're gonna have a good time! ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 4:45pm
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
oldsoldier wrote:Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 4:49pm
That is no guarantee he will make any PD. It won't even get him a preference. He will take the LE test just like everyone else. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 4:52pm
But either way, having the word police in your resume has to help, plus most departments also give deferment points for military experience. -------------
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 4:57pm
Some do, I got 5 points for being a veteran but chose not to use them. I still scored a 93 on the SCPD test. My number for getting called up to enter the academy was 22,203. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 5:04pm
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What Mbro said. Federal LE agencies recruit heavily from the military, specifically the MP corps. Either way it can't possibly hurt to be able to say I ran my own police department on a resume. Plus, MP platoons get cool toys: 7 – HMMWV/UAH w/LVOSS
4 – Trailers 7 – FM / 1 – HF / 1 – Tacstat Radios 7 – GPS 7 – M203 40mm Grenade Launcher 7 – MK19 40mm Grenade MG 7 – M249 SAWs 14 – M4 Carbines 21 – 9mm Pistols 14 – Weapons NVSs 14 - NVGs |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 5:17pm
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How many guys are in a MP platoon? I count 28 primary weapons, but I was pretty sure most platoons have ~40 guys.
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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 5:22pm
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My enterance into the US Marshal's was a simple question on the interview, did you lead men? No reference to MOS. I got the slot due to being a E-8, simple as that Was told at Glynco that Federal Law Enforcement prefer non MP's for the MP is harder to retrain to civilian law practices, the UCMJ and the military techniques are not really civilian compliant.
Field MP can be fun but a garrison 'cop' will get tiring fast and it is not NCIS. -------------
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Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 5:24pm
| It varies a lot. For example, the platoon I was with this summer had 82. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 5:47pm
This. The USAF Security Forces career field is combined to include MP duties, law enforcement duties (due to the presence of civilians on base) and physical security duties in support of what the DoD considers to be priority resources.* The difficulty of being familiar with all rolls and keeping them straight under stress could be quite interesting. Many troops spend the majority of their careers doing a single aspect of the job because of this. As an example a potential perpetrator could be considered a suspect, person of interest, or target, for essentially the same behavior depending both upon where they happen to be and if they are military or not. There are also situations where the military or civilian status of a potential perpetrator affects the level of response and others where it is not a factor at all. My point is, as OS kind of said, don't expect an automatic "in" with a police force just because of the MOS. I know folks who have made the transition successfully and others who haven't with success seeming to mainly be dependent upon individual skills and experiences. (So trying to get varied experiences from different aspects of the job might not be a bad idea.) *Combat arms training/maintenance was rolled into the career field a while back as well but it is still practiced mainly by the people who started out in that field. -------------
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 22 October 2010 at 5:50pm
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Actually my Police Department don't like to hire MP's because they come with Bad Habits. They do perfer grunts, the Commissioner being a Marine Scout Sniper might have something to do with it.
But congrats, they are a LOT of MP's in Afghan. So don;t think you'll skip out on the Suckbox. ------------- 
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Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 24 October 2010 at 4:20am
Ding ding ding ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 24 October 2010 at 10:23am
I thought only evil nuns came with bad habits. -------------
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 24 October 2010 at 11:30am
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GroupB, just let me know when you need your route cleared
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Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 24 October 2010 at 12:47pm
| And let me know when you need security on that shiny new bridge |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 24 October 2010 at 1:25pm
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heh, when i need security i'll have my sapper platoon take care of it, no need to call the cops for security
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Posted By: PAINTBALL1
Date Posted: 25 October 2010 at 9:02pm
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I feel so lost right now. What is PMS?
And congrats. I've worked with/know MPs from all branches. It really seems to be a love/hate thing without much middle ground. Now I work with missile cops and I totally understand why they hate life. ------------- USAF Special Weapons Technician. |
Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 25 October 2010 at 11:04pm
Brilliant! -------------
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Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 25 October 2010 at 11:11pm
professor of military science
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Posted By: Blacksheep
Date Posted: 26 October 2010 at 9:31pm
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Boo...join the infantry. ------------- 
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