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Badger Triad

Nearly 1,400 Army Reserve and Guard military police personnel conducted the Badger Triad Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) exercise June 3-17 2000 at Fort McCoy. The 300th Military Police (MP) Command, an Army Reserve unit from Inkster, Mich., provided the command and control for the unit. The scenario had the MPs establishing two camps, one to handle military EPWs and the other to handle displaced civilians, according to military doctrine. Susan Schaefer of the International Committee/Red Cross (IC/RC) visited the training sites. Many lessons learned were shared between the IC/RC and the military police regarding the Geneva Convention and the humane treatment of military EPWs and displaced civilians.

In any war, enemy soldiers are captured and innocent civilians are displaced. The scenario for Badger Triad was no different. Military police (MP) involved in the Badger Triad exercise at Fort McCoy June 3-17 had the chance to work in both an enemy prisoner of war (EPW) compound and a camp for displaced civilians. The camps were organized and operated by the 300th MP Command, an Army Reserve unit based in Inkster, Mich. A team of six soldiers from the 415th Civil Affairs Battalion of Kalamazoo, Mich., also acted as liaisons at the camp for displaced civilians, which was dubbed "Camp Buckeye." While the majority of the enemy prisoners and displaced civilians were played by other soldiers from the 300th MP Command, several Wisconsin Army National Guard soldiers from Headquarters, State Area Command (STARC) added further realism to the exercise by playing distinct roles in the scenario.

The 800th MP BDE Exercise, Platinum Sword, was conducted at Ft Dix from 3-5 June 2000. Recommended changes to FM 19-40 updates was passed to the 300th MP Command through the OCAR Functional Integrator to review during exercise Badger Triad. In the first two weeks in June 2000, Georgia's military police companies, the 178th in Monroe and the 190th in Kennesaw, traveled to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin for Annual Training. The MP companies supported "Badger Triad" at Fort McCoy. This is an exercise with Wisconsin's STARC and the 88th RSC, a reserve unit based in Minnesota. The 190th ran an enemy prisoner of war camp while the 178th provided combat support such as battlefield circulation.