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42nd Military Police Brigade
The 42nd Military Police Brigade was a military police brigade of the United States Army based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. The brigade was a subordinate unit of I Corps. The brigade was inactivated on 29 May 2025 during a ceremony at Joint Base Lewis McChord.
First activated as a customs unit in post-World War II Germany, the brigade has a long history with United States Army Europe. Its duties as a customs unit meant that the unit was garrisoned in Germany for over forty years from 1950 until 1990, never seeing action in the U.S. operations of the Korean War, Vietnam War, or the Persian Gulf War. It was deactivated during the post-Cold War drawdown of the U.S. military.
Reactivated in 2004, the brigade provides corrections and force protection for both I Corps and Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The brigade and its subordinate units have seen several tours in support of the Iraq War's Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism's Operation Enduring Freedom.
The brigade was inactivated on 29 May 2025 during a ceremony at Joint Base Lewis McChord.
The brigade is a subordinate unit of the I Corps, and is separate, meaning that it does not report to a division level headquarters, even during theater operations.
The brigade contains four prime components, all headquartered at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The Brigade's two permanently assigned MP battalions are the 504th and 508th Military Police Battalions at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The Brigade also contains a Force Protection unit and a detachment for the Brigade's Provost Marshal.
Additionally, with the reflagging of the 593rd Sustainment Brigade as an Expeditionary Sustainment Command, the 42nd became a subordinate unit to the 593rd ESC and ADCON for the 13th CSSB JBLM, WA. As of 16 October 2017, 42nd MP BDE, returned to I Corps as a direct report unit.
The 42nd Military Police Group traces its lineage back to the 7751st Military Police Detachment, which was established on 21 March 1949, to fight organized and widespread black-market activities which posed a serious threat to the German economy. The unit enforced USEUCOM Customs Regulations, investigated violations, controlled parcel post shipments of black marketable goods, and staffed twenty-three border stations used by U.S. military personnel crossing the international borders of post-World War II, the U.S. occupied Germany.
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42nd Military Police Brigade
The 42nd Military Police Brigade was a military police brigade of the United States Army based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. The brigade was a subordinate unit of I Corps. The brigade was inactivated on 29 May 2025 during a ceremony at Joint Base Lewis McChord.
First activated as a customs unit in post-World War II Germany, the brigade has a long history with United States Army Europe. Its duties as a customs unit meant that the unit was garrisoned in Germany for over forty years from 1950 until 1990, never seeing action in the U.S. operations of the Korean War, Vietnam War, or the Persian Gulf War. It was deactivated during the post-Cold War drawdown of the U.S. military.
Reactivated in 2004, the brigade provides corrections and force protection for both I Corps and Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The brigade and its subordinate units have seen several tours in support of the Iraq War's Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism's Operation Enduring Freedom.
The brigade was inactivated on 29 May 2025 during a ceremony at Joint Base Lewis McChord.
The brigade is a subordinate unit of the I Corps, and is separate, meaning that it does not report to a division level headquarters, even during theater operations.
The brigade contains four prime components, all headquartered at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The Brigade's two permanently assigned MP battalions are the 504th and 508th Military Police Battalions at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The Brigade also contains a Force Protection unit and a detachment for the Brigade's Provost Marshal.
Additionally, with the reflagging of the 593rd Sustainment Brigade as an Expeditionary Sustainment Command, the 42nd became a subordinate unit to the 593rd ESC and ADCON for the 13th CSSB JBLM, WA. As of 16 October 2017, 42nd MP BDE, returned to I Corps as a direct report unit.
The 42nd Military Police Group traces its lineage back to the 7751st Military Police Detachment, which was established on 21 March 1949, to fight organized and widespread black-market activities which posed a serious threat to the German economy. The unit enforced USEUCOM Customs Regulations, investigated violations, controlled parcel post shipments of black marketable goods, and staffed twenty-three border stations used by U.S. military personnel crossing the international borders of post-World War II, the U.S. occupied Germany.
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