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The Eighth United States Army supports deterrence of NK aggression against the Republic of Korea. Should deterrence fail, Eighth United States Army supports Non-combatant Evacuation Operations, transitions to hostilities, generates combat power to support CINC UNC/CFC 's campaign, and provides combat support and combat service support to assigned, attached, and other designated forces within the KTO.
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 19th Theater Support Command: 19th TSC is the logistic support arm of 8th Army with the mission of sustaining combat power throughout the peninsula. Its headquarters is located on Camp Henry in Daegu, with subordinate commands located in each of the Army's four areas of operation on the peninsula.
Supported Units:
501 CSG 34th ASG 20th ASG MSC-K
 8th Personnel Command: The mission of 8th PERSCOM is to sustain personnel readiness and exercise command and control over assigned theater-level personnel units. The theater PERSCOM manages critical personnel systems and synchronizes personnel network operations throughout the theater. The command is headquartered in Yongsan with subordinate units located throughout Korea. The 516th PSB is headquartered in Yongsan with detachments located at Cp Humphreys and Cp Henry. Also, the 516th PSB, Delta Co, is responsible for controlling all incoming mail to Korea. Postal platoons are located in Yongsan, Kimpo Airport, Cp Humphreys and Cp Henry. The 1st Replacement Company, located in Yongsan, is responsible for controlling and processing all incoming soldiers entering Korea. The EUSA Band in Yongsan, performs throughout the Korea. The 509th PSB at Cp Casey has subordinate unit, the 19th AG Company (Postal) with platoons located at Camp Casey and Camp Red Cloud.
 2nd Infantry Division: The 2ID is the major U.S. ground combat unit in Korea. The Division's headquarters is located at Camp Red Cloud, Uijongbu, and its primary mission is to deter war on the Korean peninsula by maintaining a high state of combat readiness and vigilance. 2ID units "SECOND TO NONE" stand shoulder-to-shoulder with first-echelon Korean units immediately south of the DMZ.
 1st Signal Brigade: The 1st Sig Bde is headquartered in Yongsan with units throughout Korea. 1st Sig Bde provides strategic and tactical communications, and information management to USFK and component command headquarters in the ROK. They provide mobile tactical communications, fixed tactical voice and wide area networking, message center and tactical data communications, satellite communications and contingency restoral of Defense Communications System circuits, long-haul, inter-nodal connectivity between geographically dispersed sites. 1st Sig Bde operates and maintain all AFKN TV, FM and AM radio transmission facilities.
 17th Aviation Brigade: The 17th Aviation Brigade is headquartered in Yongsan with the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment at K-16; the 2nd Bn, 52nd Avn. Regt. at Camp Humphreys; and the 164th Air Traffic Services Group at Yongsan, and with elements located throughout the peninsula. From its inception in 1965, the soldiers of the 17th Avn Bde have performed with distinction in both peacetime and combat, while remaining as the "CUTTING EDGE" of freedom in the Republic. The 1st Bn, 52nd Avn. Regt. provides combat aviation support to USFK, ROK-US CFC and EUSA with UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and C-12 Huron fixed wing aircraft. The 2nd Bn, 52nd Avn. Regt. is the only unit in the Korean theater that provides medium lift support assets to USFK, CFC and EUSA, utilizing CH-47 Chinhook helicopters. The 164th ATS Gp provides air traffic services and Army Airspace Command and Control (A2C2) throughout the entire Korean theater in support of all Army aviation operations.
 501st Military Intelligence Brigade: The 501st MI Bde is subordinate to the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command providing intelligence and security support to headquarters, EUSA. The brigade’s mission is to provide combat information and multi-discipline intelligence to joint and combined war fighters. It is comprised of the brigade staff elements and four battalions with remote elements throughout Korea.
 6th Cavalry Brigade: On order, the 6th Cavalry Brigade... Transitions to hostilities, deploys to wartime locations, and conducts attack helicopter operations to prevent penetrations of the FEBA system. Conducts over water attacks along the flanks of CFC to prevent infiltration of the ROK. Conducts aviation operations in the Corps AO to set the conditions for the destruction of North Korea's military capability.
 8th Military Police Brigade: The 8th MP Brigade, headquartered in Yongsan, conducts wartime mission of area security, law and order, enemy prisoner of war and battlefield circulation control operations throughout the theater. The brigade supports the Commanders of USFK and EUSA with an uninterrupted flow of combat, combat support and combat service support resources to the combat zone. The 94th MP Bn in Yongsan commands and controls all non-divisional military police in the northern one-third of the ROK. The 728th MP Bn at Cp Henry, Taegu, commands and controls all combat support military police from Cp Humphreys to Cp Hialeah.
 18th Medical Command: The 18th MEDCOM's primary mission is to serve as the strategic link to the CONUS medical base and plan/coordinate US Army medical support at the operational and tactical levels through the early stages of conflict. The secondary mission is to provide theater level command and control of assigned and attached medical units conducting combat health support within the Korean theater. MEDCOM is headquartered in Yongsan with subordinate units located throughout Korea.
 175th Finance Command: 175th FINCOM in Yongsan provides appropriated and nonappropriated fund accounting services and finance support to soldiers, civilian employees and family members in theater, directs the overseas banking program, and provides staff finance and accounting policy advice and operational guidance. The Centralized Pay and Accounting Division provides accounting, vendor pay, foreign national pay, and civilian pay customer services.
 Combat Support Coordination Team 3: Supports Combined Forces Command by providing a coordination link between TROKA and CFC to facilitate US combat, combat support and combat service support of army aviation, all-source intelligence, target acquisition, air defense, fire support coordination, logistics and communications-electronics operations.
 19th MP BN Criminal Investigation Division: The 19th MP Battalion (CID) supports commanders extending from the International Date Line to the Indian sub-continent by conducting Army, Joint and Combined criminal investigations of serious, sensitive or special interest matters, and criminal intelligence, logistics security, counter-drug, anti-terrorism, force protection and protective services operations in support of U.S. Forces Korea, Eighth U.S. Army, and U.S. Army Japan.
 Eighth United States Army Band: To provide informative and engaging content for all viewers.
 Eighth United States Army Non Commissioned Officers Academy: To provide quality instruction and training to prospective and newly promoted Sergeants in basic leadership skills, NCO duties, responsibility and authority as per the program of instruction for the Primary Leadership Development Course; To receive, train and integrate newly assigned Republic of Korea Army soldiers to serve as Korean Augmentation Troops to the U.S. Army (KATUSA) as per the program of instruction of the KATUSA Training Academy; and to train Army and DA Civilian leaders to present quality instruction in a training session as per the program of instruction for the Total Army Instructor Training Course.
 UNC Security Battalion-Joint Security Area: The UNC Security Battalion- Joint Security Area is composed of both ROK and U.S. military. The unit's mission include providing security in the JSA, manning Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone, and running the PanMunJom tour program. The unit is also responsible for the security and civil affairs of Tae Song Dong, the only Korean village within the Demilitarized Zone.
 Special Forces Detachment-Korea: Special Forces Detachment-Korea serves as liaison between the Korean Special Forces and the U.S. military here on the peninsula. Det-K's operations range the entire Korean peninsula and involve all branches of the U.S. and ROK military. Det-K is headquartered in Songnam, with subordinate LNOs located with each of the ROK Special Forces Brigades.
 Special Operations Theater Support Element: The SOTSE is a forward deployed logistics planning and coordination element for U.S. Army Special Operations Support Command, Ft. Bragg, NC. The SOTSE ensures logistic support is planned and executed for U.S. Army Special Operations Forces deploying into the Korean Theater of Operations. The SOTSE is headquartered at Camp Coiner, Seoul.
 Logistic Support Element Far East (DSAFE): The LSE Far East's mission is to enhance war fighting weapons system readiness in forward-based and deploying units in Korea and the Pacific Rim. The Command is headquartered at Camp Market, with subordinate Logistic Assistance Offices at: Camps Casey, Red Cloud, Henry, Humphrey's, Carroll, Long, Page, Stanley and Eagle.
 Joint U.S. Military Affairs Group-Korea: The Joint U.S. Military Affairs Group-Korea assists Republic of Korea armed forces in management, logistics and organization. JUSMAG-K also offers guidance in the establishment of industrial and commercial agencies directly related to national defense. JUSMAG-K is headquartered in Yongsan, Seoul.
 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Far East District: The Far East Engineer District is the Department of Defense Design and Construction Agent for Korea. The district is headquartered in Seoul with offices throughout the peninsula. During its forty years of existence in Korea, the Far East Engineer District has "Built for Peace!"
129th Medical Detachment: Clinics of the 129th Med Det (VM) at Yongsan and Cp Walker along with elements of the 106th Med Det (VS), provides comprehensive veterinary medical treatment for your pets throughout Korea. The 106th has clinics at Cp Red Cloud, Osan AB and Cp Hiahlea. The Yongsan Veterinary Treatment Facility serves as the medical and surgical referral center for the peninsula, though outlying facilities are equipped to handle many clinical procedures.
Fleet Activities Chinhae: Fleet Activities Chinhae and its 12 tenant activities provide services and materials to units of the Operating Forces of the U.S. Navy. The command coordinates and arranges port services and other support to visiting U.S. Seventh Fleet units.
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By Chaplain (Col.) Mel Schroeder Brain scientists tell us that every once in a while our brains need a rest. The occasional break allows the brain to process information, even as we sleep. We come out the other side of the pause ready to engage, eager to make new connections. The Psalmist says in Psalms 46:10, "Be still, and know that I am God." This is the spiritual pause that refreshes. It guides back to our spiritual root, our foundation in God, who "… is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea." Refreshed after even a brief pause, we are ready to re-enter the mission. The Lord almighty is with us.
Will Rogers, who died in a plane crash in 1935, was probably the greatest political sage this country ever knew. His advice still holds true. Here are some of the quotes I’ve seen recently that apply to UFL!
1. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
2. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
3. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
4. There are three kinds of men:
--The ones that learn by reading.
--The few who learn by observation.
--The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence.
Developing briefings that are concise and actually say something is hard. Staff work teaches us that what we think isn’t always how others think. But, all-in-all, it’s a good thing to find out what we don’t know and then to discover what we need to know - providing we can stay away from the electric fence. Enjoy the day — it is the one God has given you. "This is the day the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24.
Mark Twain once said, "Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." We need to challenge ourselves to learn our jobs, and to challenge others to set the condition in which optimal learning can occur. A word from the book of James fits here (1:2-4) "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
One of the most successful battle commanders in the Old Testament is King David. Second Samuel, Chapter 22, in David’s "Song of Praise" to the Lord who "delivered him from the hand of all his enemies," is good reading! Verses 33-38 speaks of war preparation and execution, crediting God with the entire process. "It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You stoop down to make me great. You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn. I pursued my enemies and crushed them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed." King David valued his strength and experience, but he never hesitated to stay connected to God. In fact, his relationship with God was his priority focus. This focus helped him balance his skill level with what he did not know and needed to learn. In Verse 28, he said of God, "You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low." Perhaps one message to us from King David is that it takes more courage to be humble than to be boastful. Staying connected to God keeps us spiritually alive in peacetime and on the battlefield.
Abraham Lincoln said it: "You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." In other words, the responsibility will be there. How we respond to it is the learning point. I would suggest there are three ways we can avoid personal accountability: 1. Be in denial, by saying to ourselves, "This has nothing to do with me." Or simply act ignorantly. 2. Blame myself, by saying, "It’s all my fault. I have to be responsible for everything, so it’s all my fault." Using this approach, I end up beating up myself emotionally. 3. Blame others, by saying, "It’s all your fault. "Here, I make sure nothing changes by blaming others. On the flipside, these are three ways we can embrace accountability for ourselves: 1. Acknowledge the situation, by saying "Ok, I do have a part in this. I’m in the game. Now what is my part?" 2. Accept ownership, by saying "This belongs to me. This part is mine. I will own this." 3. Take action and learn, by changing what I can - the part that belongs to me - learning from my action, adjusting fire, and taking further action. Perhaps the real question is, "How accountable do I want to be?" The words of Abraham Lincoln remind us the responsibility will always be there. It’s up to us how we respond. |
