372nd Military Police Company (United States)

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The 372nd Military Police Company is a United States reserve Military Police unit based out of Cresaptown, Maryland.

Seven of its members were involved in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal during the occupation of Iraq. These members included Lynndie England, Charles Graner, Jeremy Sivits, Javal Davis, Sabrina Harman, and Megan Ambuhl. Another member of the Company, Joseph Darby, was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for exposing the abuse at the prison.

NOTE: While the 372nd Military Police Company is based out of Cresaptown, MD, none of the Abu Ghraib perpetrators were from Cresaptown or the surrounding area. Only Joseph Darby, who was presented the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his exposure of the prison abuses, had ties to Western Maryland and Cresaptown, having been born and raised in the nearby town of Corriganville, MD.

[edit] 372d Military Police Company Lineage

Constituted 25 September 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 372d Military Police Escort Guard Company
Activated 15 October 1942 at Florence, Arizona
Inactivated 14 November 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
Allotted 14 June 1947 to the Organized Reserves
Activated 26 June 1947 at Baltimore, Maryland

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Location Changed 17 March 1949 to Cumberland, Maryland; changed 20 August 1951 to Lonaconing, Maryland

Reorganized and redesignated 15 November 1952 as the 372d Military Police Company

Inactivated 15 June 1959 at Lonaconing, Maryland
Activated 22 February 1972 at Lonaconing, Maryland

Location changed 30 June 1973 to Cumberland, Maryland

Ordered into active military service 27 September 1990 at Cumberland, Maryland; released from active military service 24 May 1991 and reverted to reserve status

[edit] Campaign Participation Credit

World War II - EAME: Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire