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Inside Camp Humphreys, South Korea: America's Largest Overseas Military Base
Time Magazine ^
| July 12, 2018
| Joseph Hincks
Posted on 07/12/2018 1:00:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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There's a major mistake in this article. I have a prize for the first person who finds it.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It says United Nations command...why are the stupid Blue helmets involved?
To: beergarden
The defense of Korea against the Nork and Chicom invasion was a United Nations operation. The Sov’s boycotted that Security Council meeting and thus could not veto. They haven’t made that mistake since. Back during the shooting war many nations sent troops to fight along side our guys and the South Koreans.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
2ndDivisionVet wrote: “There’s a major mistake in this article. I have a prize for the first person who finds it.”
There is an “8th Army” but there is no “8th Army Division”.
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07/12/2018 1:24:08 PM PDT
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DugwayDuke
("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
To: beergarden
We fought the Korean War under the auspices of a United Nations security council mandate. Luckily, the Soviet Union was boycotting the security council because we wouldn’t allow the People’s Republic of China to have UN membership in lieu of Taiwan. It has been the UN command since then. So in both my tours there I was under the United Nations, as all allied soldiers have been since 1950, including my late father.
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07/12/2018 1:26:35 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: colorado tanker
and will these same old “allies” do it again, you know...defend?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Agreed. The 8th Infantry Division has been inactive for decades. The 2nd Infantry Division is the main ground combat component of 8th Army.
To: DugwayDuke
Yes, it’s supposed to be 2nd US Infantry Division. How could somebody spend time in Korea and not know that?
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07/12/2018 1:28:16 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well fellow vet of the Indianhead Division, the stupid Libs at Slime Magazine don't know that the 8th Army is not a divisional formation. Sigh.
Of coarse, I saw an NGA product the other day that called the 160th SOAR a unit of the USAF...
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posted on
07/12/2018 1:28:58 PM PDT
by
Lysandru
To: DugwayDuke
Not anymore. They were deactivated in Germany in 1992.
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posted on
07/12/2018 1:30:48 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: Lysandru
I was also in Special Troops, I Corps (ROK/US) Group; 191st Combat Intelligence Company, 312th MI Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division and 105th MI Battalion, 5th (Mechanized) Infantry Division.
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07/12/2018 1:35:06 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: beergarden
Well, having a long list of countries contributing troops against the commies was great PR back in the day but these days coordinating so many small contingents would probably be more trouble than it would be worth.
If we needed the help, I imagine the UK, Australia and Canada would come in.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No mention of Songtan Sally?
To: An American in Turkiye
Osan? I was TDY there for Team Spirit in 1978.
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07/12/2018 1:46:27 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, there is an Eighth Army. Commands all US Army Forces in South Korea.
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07/12/2018 1:48:40 PM PDT
by
DugwayDuke
("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hit piece on President Trump.
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posted on
07/12/2018 1:49:52 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It took them long enough to move out of Nork artillery range.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It took them long enough to move out of Nork artillery range.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Shoot dogg, you are a geezer. The 1st Cav. Division was last in Korea in 1963--before it swapped designations with the 2nd Inf. Div.
I was over there in 1987 as part of 5/20th Inf (Mech) up at Camp Casey.
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07/12/2018 2:21:27 PM PDT
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Lysandru
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Camp Humphreys is bigger than Graf?
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07/12/2018 2:36:15 PM PDT
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HenpeckedCon
(Covfefe Trump!)
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