Posted on 08/09/2018 11:35:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Our presence in S Korea is for our own best interests.
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Disagree as we had Taiwan (Taipei and CCK)CCK plus Japan.
give us the bombs and we’ll give you the NY Times editorial babe
No, I did not. I recall Casey, Hovey, and Howze and the detached BN of the 3rd BDE (31st Inf) had one company on the DMZ from my memory. I may be wrong.
US troops have been off the DMZ for years now. Casey, Hovey, Red Cloud, Stanley, Howze and most of the rest will soon be ROK bases or residential/commercial projects. I was at Red Cloud (I Corps HQ) the first time and Hovey/Casey (102nd Military Intelligence Battalion) the second time. Actually had a private room on Casey, unheard of for an E-4.
The 31st had one company that patrolled the DMZ in Jul 73-74 as I had to check their ammo storage, APC’s etc. I only had to once as the BN motor pool NCOIC told me the truth as opposed to what the majority of field grade types there did.
So, when did we quit having a US sector?
It was only 27 years ago. Not yet 3 decades. 2 ID/MI did you ever go through Munsan and up to OUR sector?
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/why-isn-t-there-a-korean-dmz-group
This may interest you and others.
You can get hand controls on a vehicle courtesy of the VA. A friend who lost a leg from a parachute accident after 3 tours in Vietnam drives plus flies his own plane. I am looking into that now at my expense for my wife.
And an MI type goes where Infantry are? NEVER.
In the 90’s I believe.
MI has to go everywhere or how else would we know everything?
Everywhere? What BS. 1LT Sisler won the CMH while serving as a HF platoon leader FOB2 Kontum. He had been an Infantry type prior to MI. Let me tell you a little about the facts of combat and where MI is. They are REMF’s
Our MI types sat on the duffs back at our CCS, MACVSOG HQ in BMT. CPT Sequoia B Trueblood, MI, S-2, never saw a bullet shot in anger.
Stop the BS.
I’m a little too young (born 1960) to have seen action in Vietnam, so I can’t speak to that in any way. But in “cold war” Korea I was up on the DMZ often enough that the North Koreans would greet me by name over their big loudspeakers. Part of my battalion at 2nd Division were the ground surveillance radar operators. Where do you think they normally were? That’s an M.I. MOS.
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