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Appreciate you putting that thread up for me which of course is of great interest to me.

I commanded the 8th Ord Det (EOD) in Korea in 1968-69. We spent most of our time still picking up unexploded munitions left from the war. I would send teams out an average of twice per day and get an average of three to four munitions each time we went out. These would be anything from small arms to up to 2000 lb bombs. One of the more interesting places I would go to was the Gloster Hill memorial that the Koreans had set up as a tribute to the ones who had fought in that battle. We were all the time getting Mills Bombs (Brit grenades) and Chinese grenades, plus mortar rounds, mines, arty shells, bombs, etc. in that area. They were very consentrated there which tells you how intense the fighting was.

The Korean government built a very nice park there that is worth seeing should you ever visit some to the battle fields in Korea. Korea was probably one of the toughest wars we ever fought and is not very well covered in history. For those of you that had to do a lot of walking in Korea, I think you will agree with me on this statement. There are two types of terrain in Korea, straight up and straight down. The battles were very intense and although we didn't loose as many people as we did in other wars, the losses came in big chunks. Entire companies and larger were overrun and wiped out. That seldom happened in Vietnam.

Once again, thanks for posting the thread.