1. READINESS
MONTHLY AVAILABILITY RATE8 See Enclosure i.
READINESS INFORMATION8 Operational readiness is every soldier's
business in the 188th Military Police Company. All soldiers are keenly
auare that their effectiveness and uiell being depends a great deal on the
condition and serviceability of the equipment they use to perform their
wartime and peacetime missions. Accordingly, they keep their weapons,
vehicles, radios, and other equipment in top notch condition. Each piece
of equipment has an assigned operator/soldier. Our drivers and gunners
are proud of their assigned weapon systems and their condition. This
enthusiasm and sense of pride at the operator level is the cornerstone of
our maintenance program and operational readiness posture. The emphasis
on readiness does not stop at the operator level. Leaders at all levels
within the company are constantly striving to ensure that our equipment is
fully mission capable and the unit's operational readiness rate exceeds
the Battalion's standard of excellence of 95/i. Nothing is overlooked from
the individual soldier's CTA 50 and individual weapon to the weapons,
radios, and vehicles that make up our weapon systems. As a result of our
total unit maintenance concept and the dynamic manner in which the
warfighters of the IBBth Military Police Company have executed the
concept, the following statistics indicate that we have exceeded the
Battalion, Brigade, and Army standards continuously this past year.
"NO-NOTICE" AND OTHER "ROLL OUT" EXERCI5ES8 As previously stated,
the primary mission of the 188th Military Police Company is to conduct MP
combat support missions throughout Area V. Throughout the year, the 18Sth
Military Police Company's combat readiness" and maintenance posture is
tested and evaluated during weekly platoon level Z cycle collective
training periods; quarterly company field training exercises conducted in
conjunction with platoon Z cycle training periods; and monthly alerts
called by either the Battalion, Brigade, supporting Area Support Group, or
EUSA/USFK commanders. Regardless of the type of exercises, two areas are
always evaluated. They ares the unit's ability to transition from its
peacetime footing to its wartime posture, and the unit's operational
readiness posture and maintenance status. When platoons or the company
ars alerted, they practice transition to war under two scenarios, a four
hour "no notice" scenario or a 72 hour advanced warning scenario. When
platoons of the company are alerted, the maintenance, supply, and
communications sections as well as the NBC NCO and unit armorers move to
their work areas to issue equipment, dispatch vehicles, and assist
operators and gunners with last minute checks and services. Everybody in
the unit prepares for deployment by drawing unit basic loads (UBLs) and
loading out all organizational and individual equipment and completing
other transition to war tasks lAW the unit's readiness program. The
entire company headquarters to include the maintenance, communications,
supply, and food service sections as well as the NBC NCO are all trained
to perform their mission essential tasks and take pride in the fact that
they play a vital role and are a key ingredient in the unit's overall
success. This is a feeling* that is not only unique to the soldiers along
the DMZ, but to all soldiers who take their mission seriously, like the
Warfighters of the IBOth Military Police Company.