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28th Military Police Company

27 personnel from the 28th Military Police Company, based in Johnstown, and 18 belong to Detachment 1 of the 28th MP Company in Greensburg, deployed to Panama in February 1999, as part of a two-week training mission. The troops worked at two Army installations: Fort Clayton, at the southern entrance to the Panama Canal, and nearby Fort Kobbe, adjacent to Howard Air Force Base. There, they augmentef the U.S. Army's active-duty military police force by working three shifts around the clock, and taking on a variety of law enforcement responsibilities, including guarding gates, screening visitors, patrolling housing compounds and monitoring traffic.

In the Spring of 2000, 63 members of the 28th Military Police Company deployed for two annual training rotations to Italy. There, the MPs took up force protection duties on two high-profile Army posts, side-by-side with their active-duty comrades. Most of the MPs were stationed at Camp Ederle near the heart of the northern Italian city of Vicenza. A small detachment from the 28th MP Company redeployed 200 miles south of Vicenza to Camp Darby, near Pisa. There they augmented security details at a large supply and equipment depot maintained by the Army to support any contingencies in the region.