Wow- I haven't read past your Post #37, but I know you are going to get seriously flamed. For what it's worth, I spent several years in Korea (60's and 70's) and I know that you are correct about the problems. And it wasn't just at the Start of the war, either. There was at least one entire Army DIVISION that was this way, and many, many instances of units "bugging out".
Commanders from Company-Grade to Division (even Corps) level were relieved and replaced at a rate that I don't think has ever been seen in the U.S. Army before or since.
This is not recalled with fondness at the Pentagon, and military historians who recount these stories are very much out of favor.
The Marines saved our bacon in the Korean War- too bad a Democrat President didn't have the guts to stay the course: now we are going to have to fight them again.
Before anyone tells me that Ike ran on a pledge to "Bring the Boys Home", Truman had already allowed the war to become a stalemate, and had relieved the one senior commander who understood what the war was really about and wanted to finish it.