 In early 2017, about 60 personnel from the Headquarters Company of the 43d MP Brigade deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to provide staffing for the headquarters element of Joint Task Force Guantanamo.The shoulder sleeve insignia was approved on 16 May 1969, consisting of a green shield with a yellow wall of two crenelles above three green wavy bars, issuing from base and surmounted overall a white pike all within a yellow border.The fortification above the wavy bars alludes to the wall surrounding the 15th century city of Rhodes, capital of the Island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean after which Rhode Island was named.