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  • Korea's Army of Senior Citizens Ready for Battle. 'I Don't Remember the Rifles Being So Heavy'

    12/05/2023 7:47:01 PM PST · by Redcitizen · 45 replies
    Military Times ^ | December 05, 2023 at 4:42pm ET | Max Kim
    SEOUL, South Korea — Dressed in borrowed camouflage fatigues, they fumbled with their ammunition belts and K2 assault rifles. Some had white hair and a slow, shuffling gait; their average age was 63, the oldest 75. It was the most unconventional batch of trainees that the 52nd Infantry Division's Seocho Reserve Forces Training Center had ever seen, and Lt. Col. Hwang Hyeon-seok received them with a strained smile, desperately hoping that none of them would get hurt.
  • Sheriff issuing new ID cards to volunteers

    05/04/2006 4:46:06 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 3 replies · 480+ views
    Valley Press ^ | on Thursday, May 4, 2006 | LISA WAHLA HOWARD
    LOS ANGELES - The county Sheriff's Department is in the process of distributing new identification cards to 5,000 volunteers after the head of a "Homeland Security Support Unit" created and distributed unauthorized ID cards bearing Sheriff Leroy Baca's signature. Media reports about the actions of Gary Nalbandian, a reserve deputy who issued the laminated cards to members of the group, prompted a county investigation. As a result, county supervisors on Tuesday directed a revision of the County Badge Ordinance, which includes policies for identification cards. The Homeland Security Support Unit, according to a county report discussed Tuesday, is designed to...