Posted on 10/16/2017 7:48:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Army Rapid Capabilities Office looks to solve challenges on Korean Peninsula
By: Jen Judson
WASHINGTON — The Army’s Rapid Capabilities Office is honing in on how to address major challenges on the Korean Peninsula following a recent trip to the region, the RCO’s director said.
“We were over in Korea about five weeks ago and there is a massive effort within the Army to start addressing some of the gaps that U.S. Forces Korea and 8th Army have identified,” Doug Wiltsie told Defense News in an Oct. 5 interview leading up to the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual convention.
The RCO is beginning to work through how to address specific challenges related to what it’s already prioritizing — Electronic Warfare (EW) and Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) — for the region, but is also turning its attention to dealing with underground facilities along the North and South Korean border.
Dealing with underground facilities “is a huge effort that is going on across the Army, not just within our organization,” Wiltsie said. “The North Koreans use tunnels for both hiding their rockets and cannons, the artillery barrage that will start the war, and then there is also, within the ammunition stores they have, the belief is that there are chemical weapons in there also.”
The ability to map these massive underground facilities “is really critical to understanding where things are and areas that need to be identified and secured so that they can be dealt with later,” he said. It is “very, very important as part of that project.”
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P!
Or we could just wait for the Chinese to take him out (RE: their superhighway to the border in a region where no one owns a car).
Article states...”The ability to map these massive underground facilities “is really critical to understanding where things are and areas that need to be identified and secured so that they can be dealt with later,” he said. It is “very, very important as part of that project.”.....
I agree wholeheartedly the significance of identifying where these are. My understanding is those ‘assigned’ to these underground facilities have signed suicide oaths that should they be breached, or look to, they will set off chemical weapons.
They’ll never expect a landing at Inchon.
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