11th Military Police Brigade (United States)

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The 11th Military Police Brigade is a military police brigade of the United States Army Reserve based in Los Alamitos, California.

Subordinate units

As of 2017 the following units are subordinated to the 11th Military Police Brigade:

Heraldic items

Shoulder sleeve insignia

Distinctive unit insignia

Lineage

History

The 11th Military Police Brigade was originally constituted on 29 December 1966 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 11th Military Police Group, and activated 25 February 1967 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The brigade received its distinctive unit insignia on 6 June 1969. It was Inactivated on 3 January 1972 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Re-designated 13 March 2003 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Military Police Brigade; concurrently, withdrawn from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve. It received a shoulder sleeve insignia on 17 September 2004. Activated 16 September 2005 with headquarters in Ashley, Pennsylvania. The 11th MP Brigade provides peacetime command and control of six Military Police Battalions in Pennsylvania, Texas and Maryland. The 11th Military Police Brigade served as Task Force MP North, Camp Cropper, Iraq, August 2008 to June 2009 conducting detainee operations. During this time thousands of detained Iraqis were released to their village leadership or turned over to the Government of Iraq for prosecution. The 11th Military Police Brigade earned the Meritorious Unit Commendation for superior performance during this time. The 11th Military Police Brigade was moved to JFTB Los Alamitos, CA in October 2009.

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