"....The term for Air Police was scrapped somewhere in the late 1960's for a more fanciful term, Security Police....."
During my recent contract work at Andersen AFB , Guam, I saw that they had an even different but similar name- Security Forces.
locally radio (streaming live) is purposely avoiding the "t" word as they report the news, and is coming up with all kinds of other plausible explanations...ANYTHING but the dreaded "t" or "i" or "m" words. amazing how they bend over backwards to not touch the topic of terrorism, at the very moment we are at War and had an attack in a nearby state just a few months ago on a US base. weird.
"aw, that aircraft noise is just a Sunday morning drill, ensign. get back to sleep and quit making all the racket, i gotta helluva hangover from Waikiki last night."