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Photo G1601: Members of the B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade recon team and River Patrol Unit that was involved in the 4 December Dong Nai River ambush, fire fight and 6 December recovery of the Viet Cong Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) tube in the Battalion Tactical Area Of Responsibility, Bien Hoa Province, III Corps Tactical Zone, Vietnam in 1967. 1- Unidentified, 2- SP/4 John S. Covey, 3-SP/4 James J. Sedlock, 4- SP/4 Thomas J. Hartwig, 5- Unidentified, 6- SP/4 Richard J. Zavilla, 7- SP/4 lloyd W. Reedy, 8- PFC Dan "Goofy" Duttola, 9-SP/4 Jeffery Watt, 10- SP/4 David L. Richards, 212th MP Company (Sentry Dog) and his Scout Dog "Prince?," 11- CPL Le Van Moun a Scout Interpreter of the An Xuan Village Popular Forces, holding the captured RPG tube. If you can further identify any of these MP’s, please use this Email Link. This photograph was used as the cover of the battalion history book published in 2014: Vietnam Journal, Operation STABILIZE, 720th Military Police Battalion United States Army, Military Police in Their First Counterinsurgency Mission 11 September 1967-25 July 1970, by Thomas Terry Watson. Photograph courtesy of SP/4 John S. Covey, B Company, 720th MP Battalion, November 1967-November 1968.