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2 FORT GREELY, Alaska – Trading the warm sunshine of Southern California for the frozen snowscape of the Alaska Interior, a detachment of Soldiers with the California National Guard’s 330th Military Police Company arrived at Fort Greely, Alaska, March 30.
This detachment is the first element of what will be a rotational force to support the security mission here.
The added Military Police Soldiers will integrate with the Military Police of the Ground-based Interceptor Security Company, 49th Missile Defense Battalion, Alaska Army National Guard, to defend and secure the Missile Defense Complex.
Col. Mike Hatfield, 100th Missile Defense Brigade commander, said that the added MP Soldiers were necessary due to nationally established security requirements. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion must achieve the highest levels of compliance and training readiness. Due to the congressionally directed expansion of the MDC, the 100th Brigade conducted a Force Design Upda