Hey, soldier! Want to be stationed in Korea and enjoy the following amenities? Okay, but there’s a small chance you’ll be transferred to Afghanistan later.
In today’s KT, it appears that the U.S. Army is entertaining the idea of redeploying USFK troops to the Middle East on a rotating basis. Evidently, that’s not a popular idea with officers and enlisted men, particularly those with families.
“I think the general consensus is that longer tours in Korea are great, but soldiers should not be deployed from Korea because it places too much burden on families who have already suffered from multiple deployments,” a U.S. servicemember in Daegu told The Korea Times on condition of anonymity.
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I fully supports deployment of all U.S soldiers to Afghanistan. We shouldn’t be wasting time in South Korea. Let’s focus on Afghanistan then China.
And I fully support sending ALL soldiers back home. There’s no need to be in Korea, Afghanistan, Germany or anywhere else.
Oh, but wait… that would mean a lot of unemployed service people and a lot of military-industrial contractors without jobs, too.
Sorry – America HAS to send soldiers off to war – its what keeps their economy afloat.
A little surprised to see that Canada ranks number 3 for causalties in Afghanistan…
@ #3,
I guess I can’t call it Canuckistan anymore…
just send them anywhere but Seoul. Imagine 26000 Korean “grunts” in DC. and I mean not at Georgetown either.
The new Camp Humphreys doesn’t look too bad… looks downright comfy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
@ #5,
What about Annandale and Mclean?
This a bad idea from word one. Someone who has the ability, please look up the statistics for loses when troops from Korea were sent directly to Iraq… I spoke with people when my son was stationed here, and all of them said that the attrition rate was way above normal. Why? They weren’t prepared for what they encountered.
Apparently the military learned because after my son finished his year in Korea, they sent him to Fort Sill to retrain before sending him to Iraq for 15 months….
Martypants:”Sorry – America HAS to send soldiers off to war – its what keeps their economy afloat.”
Cool comment, Marty. Some people have the ability to encapsulize a certain truth in a single bon mott.
Being versed on Korean media practices, I could help but wonder if the quotes were made up. Anyways piece worthy of Korea’s insecurity.
It is kinda odd that, whatever your politics, the US just passed a $680 billion defense bill without any national conversation while going ape-shit over a proposal to spend $90 billion a year for health care.
The fact that that $90 billion aims to benefit, you know, actual Americans, while a good portion of that $680 billion aims to benefit countries that are perfectly able to provide for their own defense (yeah, I’m talking to you, Seoul and Tokyo) even as they stiff American importers is something that I will never tire of pointing out to anyone willing to listen (and even to those who aren’t).
What’s the Korean word for “ssagaji”…oh, wait.
DLB
@ # 9,
I very much doubt that the quotes were made up out of thin air. Perhaps creatively paraphrased yes, but made up, nah.
A statement in the video mentioned the population of USAG Humphreys growing from 10,000 to 44,000. Did someone not get the memo that the US military is (currently) planning on leaving South Korea by 2012?
Never mind that last post… Hours later I’m reading about the back pedaling. If, in fact, anyone was ever serious about the US military completely leaving the peninsula.
Not only is $680B a lot more than $90B, I’ll bet a larger percentage of the $680B will profit the top 1%. Easier to by legislation with larger budgets, too. Yay shareholder value!! Or is that term outdated by now?
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