No, the E-4 will get some PV-2 blamed for it, while letting the Lt. know he has pics of him going to the off-limits massage parlour outside post, if he opens his mouth.
Posted on 12/27/2019 9:21:57 AM PST by rdl6989
A US Army camp in South Korea mistakenly blasted out an emergency air raid siren Thursday night instead of the usual playing of taps — sparking alarm after threats from North Korea about a mysterious “Christmas gift” for President Trump, according to a report.
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Tension is the norm.
Deliberate act by a snowflake soldier(s) or a prankster. Maybe things have changed, but all the tape machines I ever saw while pulling duty at a division or camp headquarters were set up to automatically play the correct bugle call at the right time. To do otherwise with a siren would take manual intervention.
Now if it were an ASA unit, it might have been a deliberate stunt, just to tweak the beggers.
Its not easy to convince folks its a false alarm, once the flag has gone up.
That reminds me of a now discarded phrase: “Like a Chinese Fire Drill”. You would get in trouble saying that today.
Most old sayings have some basis of truth.
Within an hour of first reporting there I was shown a map to plan my personal Escape Plan. Then went to the barracks to change my underwear. Not kidding!
I was in S. Korea during the time shartly after the NORKS captured the Pueblo.
I was not up on the DMZ, but our mission did include sensitive material and more than once we were hit with alarms that proved to be either misses, failed attempts to breach our security or false alarms. The cause does not change your reaction or your mental processes wondering “what next”.
someone once rigged the tape machine at a certain kaserne in the 70’s to play “In A Gadda Da Vida” instead of “To The Colors”..
Says a man who rode with the Blackhorse...
RLTW
No, the E-4 will get some PV-2 blamed for it, while letting the Lt. know he has pics of him going to the off-limits massage parlour outside post, if he opens his mouth.
Somehow I doubt the situation was “chaos”.
Thanks for posting this. I sent the link to my son who is scheduled to be deployed there in February.
I hear you brother.
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