[Joee]

I caught the tail end, and remained stateside as a Rifle Range Coach at Parris Island and the remainder of that hitch as a Turn Key at the Parris Island Brig. I saw the Corps go from 500,000 to 69,000 under Truman, who I despise and hold to blame for Korea and the subsequent loss of nearly everyone I knew in the Corps.

[Atlantic Friend]

Strangely enough, Korea is probably the least well-known war of the 20th century. I find it troubling, since the issues were very clear from the start. I am an avid wargamer, and I remember a good game by Victory Games, titled "The Korean War".

To me, in some ways, the opening of the Korean War seems the exact rehearsal of Desert Storm. A powerful dictatorship invades a weaker neighbor. The USA get the UN to give a green light to a military operation, in which the US takes the lead while gathering a vast coalition of allies, each sending from a battalion to whole brigades. The early stages of war are fought from the air, as Allied forces build up...

You were deployed in Korea from 1950 to 1953 ?