51st Military Police Battalion

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51st Military Police Battalion
51st MPB Coat of Arms.jpg
51st Military Police Battalion Coat of Arms
Active1968–present
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Allegiance State of South Carolina
Branch National Guard
Type Battalion
Role Military Police
Part of SCARNG
Garrison/HQ Florence, South Carolina
Motto(s)"Ready to Respond" [1]
Colors Green and Gold
Commanders
Current
commander		Maj. Michael Jones
Notable
commanders		Lt. Col. Erika Perry
Insignia
Distinctive Unit Insignia 51MPBnDUI.jpg

The 51st Military Police Battalion is a military police battalion of the South Carolina Army National Guard. The battalion headquarters is in Florence, South Carolina with subordinate units in West Columbia and Timmonsville.

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History

Coast artillery

The Florence unit whose lineage is continued by the 51st Military Police Battalion headquarters and headquarters detachment began on 6 December 1926 as Battery A of the 263rd Coast Artillery Battalion. The battalion was redesignated as a regiment, the 263rd Coast Artillery, on 10 June 1930. A second Florence coast artillery unit, Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 263rd Coast Artillery, was organized on 15 April 1940. The descendant of the 263rd Coast Artillery, the whole regiment, itself, rather than just Batteries A and HQ, is now the 263rd Army Air and Missile Defense Command. The 263rd Coast Artillery was called up for Federal service on 13 January 1941 and spent World War II manning the defenses of Charleston Harbor. The 263rd Coast Artillery was broken up at Fort Bragg on 1 October 1944, with the Headquarters Battery of the 1st Battalion disbanded and Battery A being redesignated as the 248th Coast Artillery Battery. The 248th was itself inactivated on 10 November at Fort Bragg. [2]

Antiaircraft artillery and infantry

The South Carolina National Guard was reformed postwar. Battery D of the 713th Antiaircraft Artillery (AAA) Gun Battalion, reorganized and Federally recognized on 21 March 1947, continued the lineage of both Florence coast artillery units. In the following years two new Florence units were organized: Company I of the 118th Infantry, part of the 51st Infantry Division, on 10 April 1947 and the Medical Detachment of the 713th AAA Gun Battalion on 3 January 1949. The 713th was called up for Federal service during the Korean War on 15 August 1950 and released back to state control on 14 June 1952. The battalion was redesignated as the 713th AAA Battalion on 1 October 1953 and on 13 May 1958 the medical detachment was redesignated as the Medical Section of the battalion headquarters battery. [2]

Under the Pentomic reorganization of the South Carolina Army National Guard, the three Florence units were consolidated as the headquarters company of the 3rd Battle Group of the 118th Infantry on 1 April 1959. In the ROAD reorganization of 1 January 1963 the battle group was reorganized as the 3rd Battalion, 118th Infantry and the 51st Infantry Division eliminated. [2]

Military police

A radio operator of the battalion headquarters receiving a call while setting up the headquarters during 1973 active training at Fort Stewart 51st MP Battalion radio operator during 1973 active training.jpg
A radio operator of the battalion headquarters receiving a call while setting up the headquarters during 1973 active training at Fort Stewart

The battalion headquarters company was converted into the headquarters and headquarters detachment of the new 51st Military Police Battalion on 1 January 1968 during a reorganization of the South Carolina Army National Guard. [2] The battalion included the 132nd Military Police Company at Florence, the 133rd Military Police Company at Timmonsville, and the 132nd Medical Company (Clearing) at Darlington. [3] In May 1969 the 132nd and 133rd Military Police Companies were called up for state active duty in response to the 1969 Charleston hospital strike. [4] [5] They spent a week in Charleston confronting the strikers. [6]

In May 1973, two women who joined the 132nd Medical Company became the first women in the previously all-male South Carolina Army National Guard. [7] The battalion headquarters participated in two-week annual training at Fort Stewart during the summer of 1973 together with other South Carolina Army National Guard units of the 2nd Brigade, 30th Infantry Division. [8]

As of 2010 it also included the 131st Military Police Company at Beaufort, [9] converted in 2008 from Troop B, 202nd Cavalry as a result of the elimination of the 218th Infantry Brigade. [10]

Subordinate Units

List of Commanders

CommanderFromTo
Lt. Col. Lawrence Miller2010
Maj. Stanley O'Neal2010 [9]
Lt. Col. Erika Perry--July 15th, 2020 [11]
Maj. Michael JonesJuly 15th, 2020Nov 2022
Lt. Col. Susan HughesNov 2022Present

Notes

  1. ↑ "51st Military Police Battalion". The Institute of the Heraldry. Institute of the Heraldry. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Wright 1992, pp. 90–91.
  3. ↑ English Jr., Tom (26 November 1967). "Guard Reorganization Affects Units Over Area". Florence Morning News. p. 2-A.
  4. ↑ "County Guardsmen Go To Charleston". Florence Morning News. 5 May 1969. p. 1-A.
  5. ↑ Mauldin, Douglas (6 May 1969). "Guard Rotating Its Units In Charleston Every Four Days". The Greenville News. p. 15.
  6. ↑ Simmons, Thomas C. (24 May 1969). "Guardsmen Employers Thanked". Florence Morning News. p. 4-A.
  7. ↑ "Army National Guard Opens Doors to Women". Gaffney Ledger. 16 May 1973. p. 6A.
  8. ↑ "State Guardsmen Open OSD Test 2 Training". The Gaffney Ledger. 1 August 1973. p. 10A.
  9. 1 2 Purvis, Carlton (11 September 2010). "51st Military Police Battalion changes command". SCNow. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  10. ↑ Ackerman, Meghann (13 October 2008). "Storied Beaufort National Guard unit won't be sending in the cavalry anymore". The Beaufort Gazette– via NewsBank.
  11. ↑ "Change of Command". scnow. Retrieved 20 October 2020.

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