42nd Military Police Brigade
brigade
The 42nd Military Police Brigade was a military police brigade of the United States Army based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. The brigade was a subordinate unit of I Corps. The brigade was inactivated on 29 May 2025 during a ceremony at Joint Base Lewis McChord.
First activated as a customs unit in post-World War II Germany, the brigade has a long history with United States Army Europe. Its duties as a customs unit meant that the unit was garrisoned in Germany for over forty years from 1950 until 1990, never seeing action in the U.S. operations of the Korean War, Vietnam War, or the Persian Gulf War. It was deactivated during the post-Cold War drawdown of the U.S. military.
Reactivated in 2004, the brigade provides corrections and force protection for both I Corps and Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The brigade and its subordinate units have seen several tours in support of the Iraq War's Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism's Operation Enduring Freedom.
The brigade was inactivated on 29 May 2025 during a ceremony at Joint Base Lewis McChord.
Organization
The brigade is a subordinate unit of the I Corps, and is separate, meaning that it does not report to a division level headquarters, even during theater operations.
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