What is it like being an MP in garrison?

If you enjoy responding to domestic calls only to be attacked by the caller because she didn't want you to arrest her man, she just wanted you to make him stop beating her, then garrison MP is the job for you.....

It depends on the organization's MTOE. If their mission, training, and equipment reflect field work, you will do very little road work. You may have a month rotation of working the road while the other platoons train for the field. If you get stationed with a detachment like I did, you might as well forget about the field bc it basically doesn't exist. The unit is run like a civilian law enforcement. You may do PT on your own, work details, be assigned to a section, and you will patrol everyday, except on your scheduled days off. You will conduct some field training bc it's the Army and you have to be ready for everything, but there won't be much of it. I hope this helps.

Good luck with that DA6 lol

.... An assignment to a Garrison is the "Best" Tour an M.P. could ever have. There is an "Active" array of encounters from RAs and their desire to do something entertaining is the focus point of this assignment. Have fun, because all of those you encounter will be having fun in getting arrested.

I went to Germany for three weeks with my last unit, and we were covering down for an active unit so they could go field train for a few weeks. Be prepared for stupid calls and lots of wrecks in the winter

It's like civilian police work but in a fort

If you like the law enforcement side of the MP Corps then you're gonna love it. You can get schooling that most field MP's don't get a chance at. Like SRT, MO, Hostage Negotiations,MPI,& Marajuana Eradication for example. If you don't like the law enforcement side, well then you're gonna hate it.

I was stationed at Ft Stewart Ga back in 1982-84. I enjoyed road duty and field duty. I polished up on what was learned in basic and AIT. I'd do all over again with a few minor changes.

It was OK patrolling around base and pulling people over but I never wrote one ticked while in a garrison unit. I loved being in a combat mp platoon or company.

Sometimes a headache, depends if you work nights or days. Most bases now are mostly DID police last I've been to one

So there I was, riding passenger in a 2 seat John Deere Gator Bagram, Afghanistan. When an MP in his shinny new Toyota comes up behind us with his lights on. We figure something happened and he needs to get there so we pull over. He pulls over behind us and gets out. walks up to us and looks at the front of our windshield first and then says " Uhhh, you didn't stop at that stop sign". Yes we did because we had to stop for 4 MRAPs to go by. this guy thought we didn't have a vehicle pass and was going to impound our gator. I have great pictures of the impound lot with a Cadillac escalade in it. Since we had the pass, he had to make something up as to why he pulled us over. Gave the driver a ticket, had to go to the MP station and sign the ticket because I was his supervisor.

So from my perspective, garrison life or deployed life is really no different for MPs.

Well when the National Guard visits an Active Duty post you have to get out your citation book and write citations on hair being too long or uniform violations. Oh yeah saw that happen on Redstone Aresenal back in the early 1980's. ==> TOW live fire exercise.