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Phu Cat Air Base Security Forces of the United States Air Force were Air Police and Security Police squadrons responsible for the air base ground defense of Phu Cat Air Base in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Phu Cat AB was the field test site for the six-month combat evaluation of the ''1041st USAF Security Police Squadron (Test)'' from 16 January to 4 July 1967. The 1041st patrolled 26 miles of outer perimeter under Project ''Safe Side'' to evaluate the feasibility of developing a USAF air base ground defense (ABGD) force. Its experiences were a direct precursor to the development of the Security Force-concept in use today by the USAF. Units primarily responsible for base security were the 37th Security Police Squadron between 1 August 1966 and 31 March 1970, and the 12th Security Police Squadron from 1 April 1970 to 17 November 1971, when its parent 12th Tactical Fighter Wing was inactivated. These squadrons were periodically augmented by sections of "combat security police" on temporary duty in SVN under the designation 821st Combat Security Police Squadron. After the drawdown of U.S. forces at Phu Cat AB in 1971, the base and its security were turned over to the South Vietnamese Air Force. ==History== On 1 August, Capt Robert M. Sullivan and 53 air policemen (including six sentry dog/handler teams) were transferred from the 366th Air Police Squadron at Phan Rang Air Base to be the cadre for the newly activated 37th Air Police Squadron at Qui Nhon. Their first assignment was to escort 63 engineers of the 554th and 555th Civil Engineer Squadrons to Phu Cat, and then to assume security of the base site. The RED HORSE contingent constructed a camp for the 819th CES (Heavy Repair), tasked to build the base but still training at Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas. A 55-man advance party from the 819th CES arrived directly from the United States on 6 August, followed by the entire squadron a month later, and began construction of all vertical structures on the base. 19 September 1966 marked activation of 37th Combat Support Group, slated to be a support component of the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing. During construction, internal base security was provided by the severely understrength 37th APS, then having only 240 APs assigned and forced to augment its ranks with 100 non-security airmen from the 37th Combat Support Group and 162 from the 819th CES. The 1041st USAF Security Police Squadron (Test), an experimental light infantry-type air police unit, deployed to Phu Cat in the first half of 1967 to increase ground defense security under ''Operation Safe Side''.〔Fox, Lt. Col. Roger P. USAF (ret.) (1979). ''Air Base Defense In the Republic of Vietnam 1961-1973'', Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C. ISBN 978-1-4102-2256-5, pp. 82, 82n and 112n. Later seen as "Operation Safeside."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phu Cat Air Base Security Forces」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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