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I don't mean to sound like a boot or as a "whiny baby" but why is Korea not classified as a deployment? No Official peace treaty was ever signed.
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SPC Kevin Ford
SGT David T. I always joked that the most danger I was in over there was when I crossed the street.
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Are you asking why it’s not considered a combat deployment?
It reflects on the Overseas/Deployment section on my ERB. It’s an operational (non-combat) tour.
It reflects on the Overseas/Deployment section on my ERB. It’s an operational (non-combat) tour.
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SPC Deyton Privette
- at times, it has been authorized combat awards such as the CIB but they are selectively designated periods and then it goes back to status quo. This hasn't happened since 1985 (correction 1987) and before that, the 1960s. There have been other events but an event doesn't necessarily = CIB.
- it's not designated as a combat zone. Families live there.
- There is no current AUMF or Declaration of war for Korea. Forces are there as part of security agreements with South Korea.
- you live under an alert status, but so did units in Europe until the wall fell in 1991. Germany wasn't a combat theater since 1945. We had no peace treaty with the USSR and still don't.
- at times, it has been authorized combat awards such as the CIB but they are selectively designated periods and then it goes back to status quo. This hasn't happened since 1985 (correction 1987) and before that, the 1960s. There have been other events but an event doesn't necessarily = CIB.
- it's not designated as a combat zone. Families live there.
- There is no current AUMF or Declaration of war for Korea. Forces are there as part of security agreements with South Korea.
- you live under an alert status, but so did units in Europe until the wall fell in 1991. Germany wasn't a combat theater since 1945. We had no peace treaty with the USSR and still don't.
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SPC Kevin Ford
LTC Jason Mackay Things have changed a bit, it was an unaccompanied tour when I was there.
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SFC Domingo M.
LTC Jason Mackay - ...but then don't we have scenarios to deal with aggression from any given country around the world be it Russia, China, or North Korea? Does anyone here keep track of how many times the North Koreans have violated the Armistice Agreement and in what manner?
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LTC Jason Mackay
SFC Domingo M. they keep track, there are periodic meetings to monitor the cease fire in the little building in the JSA between ROK/US and the NorKs. The value of the object doesn’t warrant rolling the DMZ. No One wants to own the NorK humanitarian disaster if they implode. There is also considering The PRC response. It is open source info that the PLA has an active plan to grab their nuclear Weapons of the Kim dynasty falls.
The US has a NEO plan for the peninsula just in case, as they do in all theaters except US territory (cONUS + AK + HI + territories)
The US has a NEO plan for the peninsula just in case, as they do in all theaters except US territory (cONUS + AK + HI + territories)
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