MP's delivered the a** kicking. I deserved it. So did the MP that I beat up. I told him not to put his hands on me but he just couldn't resist.
I believe that Non Judicial Punishment (NJP) is the same as XO's Mast (?) but I thought it was Captain's Mast. It might be a change from when you were in where the XO could hold Mast on a sailor. In the marines, if the CO is absent, the XO can hold Bn NJP.
I had 17 awards/ medals. Everything up to, but not including, a Bronze star. My personal favorite achievement was returning as the SgtMaj of a Bn that I had been an E5 in. When I was serving as the 1st Sgt/ Sgt Maj I rarely stayed in my office and was out touring the areas where my marines were, telling my 'war stories' and having the yound marines laughing their butts off.
On my 1st tour in Iraq, my marines wrote a song about me (about all my war stories) and they actually sang it. It was so funny. I still have that written song but I do not let my wife see it!
Good times