Provost marshal
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provost-marshal-172-17841003
title:
Provost marshal
text:
Provost marshal is a title given to a person in charge of a group of Military Police (MP). The title originated with an older term for MPs, provosts, from the Old French prévost. While a provost marshal is now usually a senior commissioned officer, they may be a person of any rank who commands any number of MPs; historically, the title was sometimes applied to civilian officials, especially under conditions of martial law, or when a military force had day-to-day responsibility for some or all as
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Title for a leader of military police
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provost_marshal
date created:
2004-09-09T19:08:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T23:01:27Z
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