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Governor Gavin Newsom has deployed the California National Guard and military police to LA County to protect residents from looters, arsonists, and other criminal opportunists.
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John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Much of her work had been devoted to indigenous rights, but her lifelong pursuit of justice was personal: her former husband and Marcelo’s father, Rubens Paiva, an engineer and former congressman, was arrested by military police and forcibly disappeared on Jan. 20, 1971.
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Alexander Durie, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
Besides her time in politics, Gabbard was in the National Guard and deployed during the Iraq War with a field medical unit and later returned to the Middle East as an officer to lead a military police platoon and as a trainer for the Kuwait National Guard's counterterrorism unit.
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Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 14 Nov. 2024
More than 7,000 active-duty troops were sent to Texas, Arizona and California, including military police, an assault helicopter battalion, various communications, medical and headquarters units, combat engineers, planners and public affairs units.
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Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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First Known Use
1815, in the meaning defined above
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“Military police.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/military%20police. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
military police
noun
: a branch of an army that exercises guard and police functions
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