Nick,

Always great to make contact with a fellow MP. I spent my entire time in W. Germany. Never had state-side duty, so I never really had the "garrison" experience. I was a divisional MP, which meant we spent a lot of time in the field and then would work the road. It was never dull. I always thought it was the best of both worlds.

As for replacing the MP with DOD employees, I think there was talk of that as far back as when I was in. 95B10 was considered a combat MOS and I guess the role of gate duty and what not, was being looked at back then. Mike