Posted on 07/12/2018 1:00:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After a 19-gun salute wreathed the parade ground at Camp Humphreys in white smoke on June 29, South Korea’s Minister of National Defense, Song Young-moo, and United States Forces Korea (USFK) Commander, General Vincent Brooks, cut the ribbon at the United Nations Command and USFK’s new headquarters.
The massive $10.8 billion garrison in Pyeongtaek—America’s largest overseas military base—is in the final stage of a more than decade-long expansion project. About 45 miles south of the joint command’s former headquarters in metropolitan Seoul, it is expected to house nearly 45,000 troops, contractors, and family members by 2022, following the largest peacetime relocation program in the Department of Defense’s history. The camp also marks the virtual end of the U.S. military’s 70-year presence in the South Korean capital—something that Washington and Seoul have been discussing since 1987. It is a “significant investment in the long-term presence of U.S. Forces in Korea,” Gen. Brooks told a mostly military audience at the headquarters opening, and “living proof of the American commitment to the alliance.”
That alliance—formalized by the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1953—has successfully preserved what is now one of the world’s wealthiest democracies from the threats made by three generations of the Kim family, who maintain a tight grip north on their bizarre, autocratic state north of the 38th Parallel. But today, despite the show of strength that Camp Humphreys represents, there is uncertainty over the role the U.S. military will play in South Korea’s future....
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It says United Nations command...why are the stupid Blue helmets involved?
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.
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”.
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.
and will these same old “allies” do it again, you know...defend?
Agreed. The 8th Infantry Division has been inactive for decades. The 2nd Infantry Division is the main ground combat component of 8th Army.
Yes, it’s supposed to be 2nd US Infantry Division. How could somebody spend time in Korea and not know that?
Of coarse, I saw an NGA product the other day that called the 160th SOAR a unit of the USAF...
Not anymore. They were deactivated in Germany in 1992.
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.
If we needed the help, I imagine the UK, Australia and Canada would come in.
No mention of Songtan Sally?
Osan? I was TDY there for Team Spirit in 1978.
Well, there is an Eighth Army. Commands all US Army Forces in South Korea.
Hit piece on President Trump.
It took them long enough to move out of Nork artillery range.
It took them long enough to move out of Nork artillery range.
I was over there in 1987 as part of 5/20th Inf (Mech) up at Camp Casey.
Camp Humphreys is bigger than Graf?
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