CAMP SMITH – Twenty-two members of the 727th Military Police Law and Order Detachment of the New York National Guard began their one-year deployment with ceremonies at Camp Smith in Cortlandt Manor on Sunday.
The Military Police Detachment provides specially trained staff and soldiers to conduct law enforcement operations in a deployed environment. The soldiers will depart New York next week for pre-deployment training at Fort Bliss, Texas and are expected to return from service in Afghanistan in one year.
Members of the 727th MP Detachment served in Afghanistan in 2011-12, when 42 soldiers deployed to provide law enforcement support on US and coalition bases. They returned home from their mission in November 2012 after a one-year timeframe.
The detachment also deployed in 2006-07 when it served in Iraq for 15 months.
