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Unit/Organization Information
  • Illinois Army National Guard
  • 33rd Military Police Battalion
  • 233rd Military Police Company
Location
Coin Location: 20L8
Homebase: Camp Lincoln, Springfield Illinois
Deployment: Baghdad, Iraq
Additional Information
Date Acquired: 29 March 2014
Donated by: Not Listed
Copies: 1 of 1

C004808

Location: 20L8

Coin: Unit

National Guard » U.S. Army » Law Enforcement - Military Police

Narrative

Round shaped coin, brass in color, 1 1/2 inches in diameter.

Journal - Page 108 - Line 29 233rd Military Police Company (23rd MP Co)

The 233rd Military Police Company was the subject of a book authored by Mark R DePue published in April, 2007 entitled "Patrolling Baghdad, A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq." A brief description of the book:

"DePue recounts the 233rdÂ’s actions in the streets and alleyways of Baghdad and the inevitable clash of cultures, along with lootings, shootings, roadside and police station bombings, and the inevitable bureaucratic bumbling. Here are the horrors of firefights and summary executions and the drama of the UN bombing. Here too is the untold side of the war, as these volunteers on their own initiative reopened Baghdad schools and took under their wing a Catholic orphanage for handicapped children located in the heart of the city.