T2K JAG type campaign...

[natehale1971]

The Inspector General and JAG Corps will still be operating to keep some kind of order among the US Armed Forces no matter where they are stationed... and this is an encounter group that would be good for campaigns that are set prior to 'The Escape for Kalisz' or even afterwards during those campaigns that are set in units that were not part of the 5ID...

The CID team would investigate the major crimes impartially with the local MP detachments.

The judiciary detachment would set up the court that would hold a full courts marital instead of the usual commander's non-judicial punishment for lesser offensives could handle.... While the MPs would be there to provide defense for the detachment as they travel from cantonment to cantonment in a manner like Circuit Judges of the Old West.

While the majority of offenses would be some kind of NJP of hard labor while you're sleeping in the stockade, there are still offenses that would would warant a higher authority that is outside the controls of Divisional or even Corps command (and thus a higher rank held by the military judge). And the Courts Martial proceedures would need to be tweaked to deal with the composition of the Jury for offenders who are of a higher rank than Major.

Note: I have edited the location of the CID Team to make it easier to understand that the protective detail was to protect the judiciary detachment.

Criminal Investigations Team

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M1101 ¾-ton high mobility cargo trailer
CW2/CW3/CW4 <>, CID Special Agent Warrant Officer:
SGT/SSG/SFC/MSG <>, CID Special Agent NCO:

Judiciary Detachment

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M1102 1¼-ton high mobility cargo trailer
MAJ <>, Military Judge:
MSG <>, Legal Services Senior NCO:
SPC <>, Paralegal Specialist/Driver:
SSG <>, Chief Bailiff/Gunner:

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M105A2 1½-ton high mobility cargo trailer
CW2 <>, Legal Administrator:
SSG <>, Legal Services NCO:
PFC <>, Paralegal Specialist/Driver:
SGT <>, Bailiff/Gunner:

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M107A2 400gal tank trailer
1LT <>, Judge Advocate:
SGT <>, Legal Services NCO:
PFC <>, Paralegal Specialist/Driver:
SPC <>, Bailiff/Gunner:

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M107A2 400gal tank trailer
1LT <>, Judge Advocate:
SGT <>, Legal Services NCO:
PFC <>, Paralegal Specialist/Driver:
SPC <>, Bailiff/Gunner:

Military Police Protective Detail Escort

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M105A2 1½-ton high mobility cargo trailer
SSG <>, Squad Leader:
SPC <>, Combat Field Medic:
SPC <>, Radio-Telephone Operator:
SPC <>, Designated Marksman:
PFC <>, HMMWV Gunner:
PFC <>, HMMWV Driver:
SPC <name>, MP Dog Handler:
PVT <name>, Working Dog:

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M105A2 1½-ton high mobility cargo trailer
SGT <>, Team Leader: SPC <>, Combat Field Medic:
SPC <>, Radio-Telephone Operator:
SPC <>, Designated Marksman:
PFC <>, HMMWV Gunner:
PFC <>, HMMWV Driver:
SPC <name>, MP Dog Handler:
PVT <name>, Working Dog:

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M107A2 400gal tank trailer
SGT <>, Team Leader:
SPC <>, Combat Field Medic:
SPC <>, Radio-Telephone Operator:
SPC <>, Designated Marksman:
PFC <>, HMMWV Gunner:
PFC <>, HMMWV Driver:
SPC <name>, MP Dog Handler:
PVT <name>, Working Dog:

Motorcycle Escorts: This part of the MP Escort Detachment uses off-road dirtbikes for recon and screening.
SGT <>, Military Police Motorcycle Team Leader:
PFC <>, Military Police Motorcycle Driver:
SPC <>, Military Police Motorcycle Driver:
PFC <name>, Military Police Motorcycle Driver:
SPC <>, Military Police Motorcycle Driver:
PV2 <name>, Military Police Motorcycle Driver:
PFC <>, Military Police Motorcycle Driver:
PV2 <name>, Military Police Motorcycle Driver:

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by natehale1971

The Inspector General and JAG Corps will still be operating to keep some kind of order among the US Armed Forces no matter where they are stationed... and this is an encounter group that would be good for campaigns that are set prior to 'The Escape for Kalisz' or even afterwards during those campaigns that are set in units that were not part of the 5ID...

The CID team would investigate the major crimes impartially with the local MP detachments.

The judiciary detachment would set up the court that would hold a full courts marital instead of the usual commander's non-judicial punishment for lesser offensives could handle.... While the MPs would be there to provide defense for the detachment as they travel from cantonment to cantonment in a manner like Circuit Judges of the Old West.

While the majority of offenses would be some kind of NJP of hard labor while you're sleeping in the stockade, there are still offenses that would would warant a higher authority that is outside the controls of Divisional or even Corps command (and thus a higher rank held by the military judge). And the Courts Martial proceedures would need to be tweaked to deal with the composition of the Jury for offenders who are of a higher rank than Major.

Have a look at the MCM. The penalties change in Time of War and Location.
What could be NJP or 30 days confinement at Peace is summary execution in War. With allowance for a Commander to take action immediately in some cases. Insubordination, Conspiring with the Enemy.
Whatever your doing, you probably violated Art 92.

Originally Posted by natehale1971

Judiciary Detachment

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M107A2 400gal tank trailer
M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M107A2 400gal tank trailer

Need a Deuce or a 5 ton to pull that trailer or your going to blow the tranny on a Hummer.
8x4= 32. 3200 lbs of water plus the dry weight of the trailer.

Originally Posted by natehale1971

Criminal Investigations Team

M998A1 HMMWV utility cargo truck w/a M1101 ¾-ton high mobility cargo trailer
CW2/CW3/CW4 <>, CID Special Agent Warrant Officer:
SGT/SSG/SFC/MSG <>, CID Special Agent NCO:

CID can escort themselves. The Protective details surrounding Three Star Generals and up are CID agents augmented by MPs when necessary. CID Agents are likely to have been to the PSD school. The have friends (Three Stars and up.) CID will have uparmors, Helos, and boats if they need them.

Originally Posted by natehale1971

Military Police Protective Detail Escort

Redundant.

Originally Posted by natehale1971

Motorcycle Escorts: This part of the MP Escort Detachment uses off-road dirtbikes for recon and screening.

Took the Motorcycles away in the 70’s. Safety don’t ya know.

[natehale1971]

The Protective escot is not for the CID team. But the Judiciary team...

The CID Team operates by themselves, going ahead of the judiciary team and it's escort like the US Marshals of the old west. They arrive at a cantanoment that has said they've got a problem, and investigate it. If the problem is bigger than the commander of the cantonment's ability to judge impartially they place the call for judiciary detachment who then comes with their MP escort.

And while the MPs don't currently have motorcycle escorts, in a T2k setting, the motorcycles have a good flexibity that Humvees don't....

I didn't know about the weight, the 400gal trailers were the only ones i could find the identifications for.. they carry fuel for their convoy, and supplies that they might need to support themselves (and possibly escort the offenders back to upper echelon command).

Using WW2 as a model of the Inspector General and JAG Corps, the military justice system was very interesting. It's what gave me the idea for this little ecounter group.

[copeab]

I ... just see too many officers ordering summary executions in 2000. No investigation. No trial. Sorry.

[natehale1971]

Being that draconian would be very... counter-productive. If enlisted persons know that any infraction can end up with an execution done out of hand without some kind of due process and wonder what the hell they're fighting for... because that's how the Soviets (or at least that's what we've been told) do. and ask the question 'Aren't we suppose to be better than those guys?' and could easily see the personnel committing mutinity if they see the officer in charge as a maritante who is just shooting people.

And as I said.. this would be a more apt ecounter for campaigns BEFORE the overun at Kalisz and the destruction of 5ID, unless you are playing a game set with another unit that wasn't overrun. Or back in the United States.

During WW2 I have read of civilians asking the US Army to investgiate and help with providing justice for criminal offenses. This is what gave me the idea for this kind of encounter. They'd be dealing with not just US Armed Forces comitting crimes... but also dealing with civilan locals to keep the peace.

While taking a group of marauders you've captured and lining them up and shooting them might feel good... it doesn't change the fact that SOME of the people in a marauder group MIGHT have been innocent or confined their attacks to enemy units.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by natehale1971

Being that draconian would be very... counter-productive. If enlisted persons know that any infraction can end up with an execution done out of hand without some kind of due process and wonder what the hell they're fighting for... because that's how the Soviets (or at least that's what we've been told) do. and ask the question 'Aren't we suppose to be better than those guys?' and could easily see the personnel committing mutinity if they see the officer in charge as a maritante who is just shooting people.

Depends greatly. Armies work by cooperation. Everyones does what they are told and when they need to do it.

That insubordinate asshole, that won't pull his weight, do his guard duty, build the fighting positions. He is just a liability.

Liabilities get other guys, good guys killed.

If your CO pulled his M9 and shot that ass on the spot. He might well be cheered.

I can bet a good number of "accidentals, other than Combat" deaths are the Lowers getting rid of guys that fuck them over.

In-subordinates are a liability and only other insubordinate and malcontents can't seem to get it.

[copeab]

Originally Posted by natehale1971

Being that draconian would be very... counter-productive. If enlisted persons know that any infraction can end up with an execution done out of hand without some kind of due process and wonder what the hell they're fighting for...

Survival.

90% of the world is dead. Their home countries are in ruins. There won't be much left for most but pure survival. Many will fight for themselves, nothing else.

and could easily see the personnel committing mutinity if they see the officer in charge as a maritante who is just shooting people.

If allows the group to survive by removing those threatening the survival of the group, his men will see him as a hero.

During WW2 I have read of civilians asking the US Army to investgiate and help with providing justice for criminal offenses.

In 2000, this is entirely up to the whim of the local encounter as to how the local population is treated. Civilians won't get justice if it interferes with the needs of his unit.

[ArmySGT.]

Your MP Teams are to big.

MPs are Three Man Teams. Three Teams to a Squad, Three Squads in a Division MP Co, Four Squads in a Corps MP Company.

Team Leader, Driver, Gunner.

A Corps MP Squad is three Teams plus a Squad Leader. Divisionals Three Teams but, the Squad Leader is the Team Leader for one Team.

Dogs and Dog Handlers are a Detachment from a Detachment. Not many Patrol Dogs; drug sniffing dogs are the majority, and bomb sniffing dogs that are on a near permanent loan to CID and the Secret Service.

Convoy Escorts. This is a Major tasker for MPs. My unit did 188,000 convoys in 2003 to 2004. That is not a typo.

Convoys are formed by a Corps level Traffic Control unit. This tells them routs, departure times, and gives a hazards briefing.

Units are pieced together and the Senior Officer is the Convoy Commander. The MPs will separate from the convoy and fight to protect it. While the convoy moves out of the kill zone and to a rally point.

Any of those Detachments today would move in a two truck minimum with atleast one gun truck. M998 must travel with an M1025 for example.

Fuel. No fuel trailers. There are HEMMT fuel tankers, fuel blivets, and fuel pods. Fuel pods can be strapped to a trailer. That trailer is the larger two axle type and I don't remember the nomenclature. Fuel pods work by gravity, Fuel blivets can work by gravity, usually with pumps maintained by fuel units, or another vehicle can very slowly mash down the blivet with wheels or tracks forcing fuel out of the blivet.

Those are water trailers. The "Water Buffaloes" There are desert models with a chiller that dispenses cold water if there is electricity for the chiller.

The water purified with bleach tastes like ass.

[natehale1971]

Okay...

I couldn't find anything on the size of MP units, so I just 'guessed' how they'd be set up... The way i thought the escorts would work, would be kind of like this... Or are they spaced differently?

MP Escort Dirtbike
MP Escort Humvee
Judiciary Detachment Humvee (Advocate)
MP Escort Dirtbike

MP Escort Dirtbike
MP Escort Humvee
Judiciary Detachment Humvee (Administrator)
Judicary Detachment Humvee (Military Judge)
MP Escort Dirtbike

MP Escort Dirtbike
MP Escort Humvee
Judiciary Detachment Humvee (Advocate)
MP Escort Dirtbike

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by natehale1971

Using WW2 as a model of the Inspector General and JAG Corps, the military justice system was very interesting. It's what gave me the idea for this little ecounter group.

Any Battalion Commander can organize a Courts Martial. Officers from the Battalion are selected as Prosecutor and Counsels.

[ArmySGT.]

Ok so it is the 90's right.

So lets see. How about my first unit as a green dumb Private out of AIT.

Arrived 26 Feb 1991 beginning Day 3 of Operation Desert Storm.

4th Platoon, 984th MP Company, 759th MP Bn.

As a replacement I went through the mobilization process. My shit was sparkling, new car fresh. Even the M17 pro mask was new in the box. For weapons I got an M16A1 with M16A2 upper, a rebuild all freshly parked and the preservative was not the hellish fun of cosmoline. A minty fresh M1911A1.

7 mags and 3 mags.

The Team I was assigned to already had three persons. Hello 4th out of place person.

MPs are retarded in that in a complete opposite of the Infantry the MPs stick the lowest ranking in the turret behind the Gun.

Yeah so the least experienced is up top with the most situational experience.

Team equipment.

Mk-19 and the days of the 48 round cans, the Army has gone to 32 round cans. This is more Equal Opportunity. Suzy couldn't lift a 48 round can so we went to 32 round cans suzy can lift a 32 round can.

10 cans 480 rounds.

M60 General Purpose Machine gun. w/ spare barrel kit.
4 cans

Driver M249 SAW.
2 cans.

Team Leader
M16A2 w/M203.
2 can, 7 mags, no clue on the 40mm.

The gunner I replaced.
M9.
One can split 4 ways.

Hand grenades.
Just smoke and one thermite to destroy the radio (specifically the KY-57)

AT-4
One. I was the only one with any training.

NVGs
Driver and TL the A/N PVS-7

Gunner A/N PVS-4 with M60 reticle.

Hummer M1025. Gun truck not winch.

Radio

A/N VRC-46 with KY 57