In command of the 300th Military Police Company in Iraq from May 2003 to April 2004, Captain Lynn Rolf III conducted a wide range of missions, to include main supply route and convoy security, high-value target investigations, detainee movements, zone reconnaissance, cordon and searches, and cultivating and acting on intelligence gathered from the civilian population. "I had a lot of snitches," said Rolf, "that I developed in the local areas." During his deployment, Rolf provided training assistance to Iraqi police and security forces and stood up, trained and equipped the first Iraqi highway patrol unit in country. He also worked closely with a number of coalition partners, from the British and the Poles to the Spanish and the Azerbaijanis, the latter he wished "could have been with me the whole time." What's more, Rolf had "about five or six towns under [his] control. Basically I was the mayor, I was the electrician, all of it." And while he had received no specific training himself to perform these tasks, Rolf credits his MP background and his experiences dealing with people on a regular basis for seeing him through and enabling him to learn essentially how to “troubleshoot a town.” Upon returning to the U.S., though, Rolf expressed disappointment with psychological support (or lack thereof) provided by Fort Riley to soldiers who’d returned from Iraq. This he called the “biggest heartburn that I had.”

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