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545th Military Police Company
Unit
Commanders
Compiled by Sam Reinert
NO PHOTO AVAILABLE
CPT Richard K. Carver
Commanding Officer
MP Platoon, 1st Cavalry Division
Luzon
January 1945 – May 1945
Wounded in Action and received the Silver Star and Purple Heart
NO PHOTO AVAILABLE
CPT Harold L. Rupkey
Commanding Officer
MP Platoon, 1st Cavalry Division
Luzon
May 1945 – June 1945
CPT Richard P. Honig
Commanding Officer
Military Police Platoon,
Headquarters Troop, 1st Cavalry Division
World War II
Pacific Islands and Camp Drake, Japan
June 1945 - 1946
CPT Al Daniel
CO, Military Police Platoon, Headquarters Troop, 1st Cavalry
Division
Camp Drake, Japan
1946-1947
CPT Bill Holland, CO 545th MP Platoon, Hqs Troop, 1st Cavalry
Division
Camp Drake, Japan
1947
CPT Dalton W. Lain, the last Commanding Officer
of the MP
Platoon, Headquarters Troop,
1st Cavalry Division
marching in front of his
unit before it became
the 545th
Military Police Company at Camp Drake,
Japan
1947-1948
CPT Louis Mehl
Commanding Officer, 545th MP Co.
Provisional Platoon
Japan and Korea
1949 - 1951
CPT John W. Haskell
Commanding Officer, 545th MP Co.
Korea
March 1951 – August 1951
CPT Eugene Hudders
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
Japan
1951 – 1952
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LTC Eugene (Gene) Carson
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
Japan
16 November 1953 – 25
March 1955
NO PHOTO AVAILABLE
1LT H.K. Russell
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
Korea
March 1955 - unknown
CPT Daniel R. Holt.
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company, Korea
July 4, 1961 – September 12, 1962
CPT. Jonathon S. VanHorn
Commanding Officer, 545th MP Co
Camp Custer, Korea
May 1963 – November 1963
CPT. W. Heck, Commanding Officer of the 545th MP Co
Camp Custer, Korea
1963-1964
1Lt. James P. Byrnes
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
January 1964 – June 1964
CPT. Lawrence E. Seng
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
July 1964 – June 1965
NO PHOTO AVAILABLE
CPT William Pope
Commanding Officer
11th MP Company and 545th MP Company
Ft Benning, GA and Vietnam
CPTain Paul Lewis Jr.
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company, Vietnam
June 1965 – December 1965
CPT. Gary W. Lawhead
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
An Khe, Vietnam
June 28, 1966 – July 1 1967
CPT. Maynard D. Eaves, Commanding Officer545th
Military Police Company
Receiving a Bronze Star from the PMG
July 1967 – July 1968
CPT. Dennis Dillard
Commanding Officer
Phouc Vinh, Vietnam
January 1968 – July 1969
CPT. Sam Reinert
Commanding Officer
Phouc Vinh, Vietnam
July 1969 – February 1970
CPT. Glen A. West
Commanding Officer
Phouc Vinh, Vietnam
February 1970 – July 1970
CPT Fred J. Marba, 545th MP Co. Commander
July 1970 – October 1970
Receiving the J.P. Holland award
At Phouc Vinh, Vietnam
CPT John T. Kociaba
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
Commanded the unit at the Division Stand-Down in Vietnam
Phouc Vinh and Bien Hoa, Vietnam
October 1970 – February 1971
CPT Carl C. Sutherland
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
June 1972 – July 1973
Member of the MP Corps Hall of Fame
1Lt. Sherwood Nance
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
July 1973 – January 1974
Fort
Hood, Texas
CPT Michael L. Sullivan
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
Feb 1974 - August 1975
CPT G. T. Whiddon
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
September 1975 – March 1978
Fort Hood, Texas
CPT Joseph T. Bartlett
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company, Fort Hood, Texas
April 1978 – August 1979
CPT Richard Magera
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
September 1979 – October 1980
Fort Hood, Texas
CPT Glenn R. Petree
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
Fort Hood, Texas
November 1980 – May 1982
CPT Louis P. Kernisan
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
April 1982 – July 1984
Fort Hood, Texas
CPT Rodney L. Johnson
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
(Later to become the Commandant of the MP School and then promoted to Provost Marshal General of the US Army)
July 1984 – January 1986
Fort Hood, Texas
1LT Michael D. Murray
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
January 1986 – July 1988
Fort Hood, Texas
CPT Richard W. Swengros
Commanding Officer
545th MP Company
July 1988 – October 1989
Fort Hood, Texas
CPT Jeff Harris
Commander
545th MP Company
Desert Shield/Storm
Iraq
October 1989 – July 1991
CPT Douglas A. Campbell
Commander
545th MP Company
Fort Hood
July 1991 – December 1992
CPT Joseph G. Raines
Commander
545th MP Company
Fort Hood, Texas
August 1995 – May 1997
CPT Chris A. Cantrell
Commander
545th MP Company
Fort Hood, Texas
May 1997 – February, 1999
CPT Stanley Scott
545th MP Company
Commanding Officer
(Later to become an Instructor at West Point)
Fort Hood, Texas
February 1999 – February 2001
CPT Timothy Sean Tyson
Commander
545th MP Company
Afghanistan and Ft Hood
February 2001 - March 2003
CPT Ian Townsend CO
545th MP Company
Iraq
March 2003 – September 2004
CPT Matt Mularoni
Commanding Officer
Iraq and Fort Hood, Texas
2004 – 2005
The last Company Commander to Command this splendid unit up
until its deactivation
on 15 October 2005
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