Virginia MPs live fire from new Armored Security Vehicles – Oct. 18, 2012

Virginia Guard Soldiers from the Virginia Beach-based 229th Military Police Company conduct a live fire exercise Oct. 18 at Fort Pickett as part of the new equipment training process on their newly-acquired M1117 Armored Security Vehicles. The ASVs are equipped with both an M2 .50 caliber machine gun and an MK19 grenade machine gun, both of which the MPs had the opportunity to fire. The 229th MPs recently received 12 ASVs and both vehicle maintainers and operators have been learning their way around the massive, multi-ton vehicles in courses taught at Fort Pickett Oct. 9-19.