Interesting clip on N Korea...

J-man

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...with Bret Baier. It hasn't changed at the DMZ in over 30 years, it looks the same as it did back in the early 80's. Stood at the concrete line outside as well as the table inside, both which straddle the border. It's a very odd feeling when you look across the way and see "your enemy" staring right back at you. Every little movement, no matter how insignificant, can prove to be extremely significant at any moment. Please, no hot-heads or short tempered folks at the border, just keep them away for the sake of humanity.

 
I saw that on Fox. Pretty interesting, including the table in the building with one side in the north and the other in the south. Why any American would want to be a tourist in that deprived, communist hell hole is a mystery to me.
 
Grey Colson said:
I saw that on Fox. Pretty interesting, including the table in the building with one side in the north and the other in the south. Why any American would want to be a tourist in that deprived, communist hell hole is a mystery to me.
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I think most of the "Western" folks were actually Eastern European, at least it appeared that way when I was there.
 
My father was stationed in Korea, 1953-1954. I had a friend stationed there as an MP in the mid-90s and he hated it. It's still a short tour for E-7s and below and for officers Major and below. For everyone else it's a long tour and you take your family with you. I am quite happy I was never given a tour there.
 
Actually, one of my favorite foreign mysteries was written by a Korean author, titled, "Spots On The Wall" by: Wu Flung Poo


:p
 
Boss 302 said:
My father was stationed in Korea, 1953-1954. I had a friend stationed there as an MP in the mid-90s and he hated it. It's still a short tour for E-7s and below and for officers Major and below. For everyone else it's a long tour and you take your family with you. I am quite happy I was never given a tour there.
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It was my first tour assignment right out of AIT at Ft Gordon...12 months unaccompanied tour (I was just married). Got there, found a nice little hooch (I said hooch, not hoochie momma), then paid for the wife to join me. Although we lived primitive we enjoyed it enough that we extended our stay another 12 months. Living among the locals, getting to know them and their traditions was very interesting to me. Of course that was well after the war so that makes a huge difference, although the potential for war was a daily threat. I plan to go back for a visit either next year or the year after, whenever our martial arts instructor returns to test for his 8th degree. From what I understand I won't even recognize the place anymore.
 
J-man said:
It was my first tour assignment right out of AIT at Ft Gordon...12 months unaccompanied tour (I was just married). Got there, found a nice little hooch (I said hooch, not hoochie momma), then paid for the wife to join me. Although we lived primitive we enjoyed it enough that we extended our stay another 12 months. Living among the locals, getting to know them and their traditions was very interesting to me. Of course that was well after the war so that makes a huge difference, although the potential for war was a daily threat. I plan to go back for a visit either next year or the year after, whenever our martial arts instructor returns to test for his 8th degree. From what I understand I won't even recognize the place anymore.
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Were you signal?
 
J-man said:
Yep
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I thought so. The MP school used to be at Gordon, but the last class graduated from there in '75 as it was moved to Ft. McClellan. My dad was an instructor at the Signal School until he retired from the Army in 73. While I was at Gordon, we used to use the auditorium in Alexander Hall (Signal Tower) awards ceremonies.
 
Boss 302 said:
I thought so. The MP school used to be at Gordon, but the last class graduated from there in '75 as it was moved to Ft. McClellan. My dad was an instructor at the Signal School until he retired from the Army in 73. While I was at Gordon, we used to use the auditorium in Alexander Hall (Signal Tower) awards ceremonies.
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Basic at Ft Leonard Wood MO then to Ft Gordon GA in early 84. From there to Camp Humphreys in Anjung Ri South Korea, then to Huntsville AL, and finally to Heidelberg Germany with a short stay at Ft Benning GA. Hard to believe it been 33 years.
 
J-man said:
Basic at Ft Leonard Wood MO then to Ft Gordon GA in early 84. From there to Camp Humphreys in Anjung Ri South Korea, then to Huntsville AL, and finally to Heidelberg Germany with a short stay at Ft Benning GA. Hard to believe it been 33 years.
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Time goes by fast; especially as you get older.

I did basic at Ft. Knox where we lived in the old WWII barracks. Those things were tinder boxes that could be fully engulfed in flames within 10 minutes after a fire started. We had to wax the wood floors with Johnson's paste wax and then buff. The paste wax is flammable. We'd set it on fire in the can to melt it and then put it out before spreading it on the floor. The floors did shine nice though.
 
Boss 302 said:
Time goes by fast; especially as you get older.

I did basic at Ft. Knox where we lived in the old WWII barracks. Those things were tinder boxes that could be fully engulfed in flames within 10 minutes after a fire started. We had to wax the wood floors with Johnson's paste wax and then buff. The paste wax is flammable. We'd set it on fire in the can to melt it and then put it out before spreading it on the floor. The floors did shine nice though.
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Yep, gotta melt it to get the floors to shine up nice and bright.
 
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