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To: JackelopeBreeder

Were you getting combat pay in the Z. We were getting in 68-69 but we were getting shot at also.


129 posted on 01/21/2005 9:50:01 PM PST by U S Army EOD (John Kerry, the mother of all flip floppers.I)
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To: U S Army EOD

Nope -- still getting shot at, but no pay. Strange time, really. Around Pamnunjom things were hostile, but a few miles north the troops were trading stuff through the fence. Still shooting at each other, but more as a way to beat boredom.

My last tour was weird in many ways, as is North Korea's internal situation. In the past, they had been robust specimens ready and willing to raise hell and discuss each others' mothers at length -- while trading Marlboros and Kents for NK soju that would make your hair fall out.

During my last tour (my eighth) the NK troops barely acknowledged our presence and always looked like a bunch of starved scarecrows. North Korea will go the way of East Germany soon.


140 posted on 01/21/2005 10:11:54 PM PST by JackelopeBreeder (Proud to be a mean-spirited and divisive loco gringo armed terrorist vigilante cucaracha!)
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