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Check out Turkmenistan. They make North Korea look reasonable. The President of Turkmenistan, Gods Prophet on Earth, (His actual Title), decided different coloured cars made his city look messy, so he ruled that only white cars could be sold. That wasn't working quickly enough, so coloured cars started getting towed away, and you could only get yours back if you paid for it to be painted white. It's bizarro land, but richer than North Korea. One good thing the President does is he makes Government officials do a 22 mile mountain heritage hike every 2 years, while he screams at them from a helicopter that they're too slow. If they tried that in the USA, most of your Senate would be dead first outing, and you'd at least get some young blood in there...
My dad fought on the front lines of Korea for a year in the 1950s as a Seargant in the Marine Corp. He finally died last November. I think he freaked out the North Koreans also 😊. Seriously, I think he'd be asking to pursue peace at all costs. He woke up asking about the Artillery one night during his last week until he realized where he was. Freaked my mom out. Let's be careful what we ask for...
I dated a girl whose grandfather was in the Korean War; he literally almost froze to death. Although, he rad a rather unusual, and pleasurable, experience towards the end of his duty. He purchased a sailboat in Korea (during the war), and despite having no maritime experience, sailed to Tahiti for a couple weeks.
@jayklink851 That generation could do damn near anything they set their minds on. You would swear my dad was made of steel. Nothing phased him (yes, not even imminent death). I guess if you lived in hell for a year, nothing WOULD phase you afterwards.
North Korea still has about 100,000 artillery pieces pointed at Seoul, that can be fired any minute. Yet, somehow, the South Koreans are really chill about it. They're more worried their noodles are cooked right.
North Korea needs to identify an enemy to redirect their people's attention away from their own deficiencies. The US exercises are a convenient headline for North Korea to use as a scapegoat.
I mean, NK has some pretty valid reasons to resent the US. Joint military exercises are probably seen as constant reminders of all the pain they feel the west has inflicted upon them.
@@milkdrinker7 North Korea's pains were self-inflicted. Their victim mentality when they were the aggressor doesn't change that fact. This is from someone who was born in South Korea.
The Team Spirit exercises were defensive in nature. I flew F16’s at two different bases in South Korea. March is the earliest time of the year that the rice paddies and natural corridors are adequate for armor to invade from the North. The second echelon of North Korean forces are now on the DMZ with the first echelon. This dramatically reduces the warning time and response to an invasion from the North. The extra forces added during Team Spirit would negate those conditions.
great to hear from a pilot ! I agree, it's pretty obvious when you look at the training exercises are designed for defense. also looking at the types of assets and numbers it clear invasion is not on anyones mind.
I served twice in Korea 94-95 U-2's and 2000-2001 A-10's. Simply put US forces in South Korea are there to fight a delaying action till their support from Japan arrives. As the popular saying goes we are nothing but a speed bump. PIL SUNG!
I did Team Spirit 1976, 1977, 1980. That first one was wild. I had the chance to go down to Sea Range and watch our Hawk and Improved Hawks fire. I wasn't expecting them to move as fast as they do as I was concentrating while watching through binoculars. Thought I had snapped something in my neck when the first one took off...😂
You talked about the tree being cut down on the DMZ in 1976. I was there. I with HHC 1/23rd INF, 2nd DIV Camp Hovey. I also spent 3 weeks on the DMZ relieving the 2/9th INF so they could show they were combat ready. I remember in March 1976 our unit was air lifted on C-130's to the east coast of Korea for an exercise. I don't think we were told it was the annual exercise with the South. Interesting video.
I remember that time with the tree, since we just sat around cleaning our M-16's, over and over and over... Our commo shop was completely loaded on the vehicles in case we needed to bug out. I mean EVERYTHING. Even the stove for the shop was loaded. We were also within artillery range of the North. Most of the time we were just board waiting for something to happen or to be released back to normal duty.
That was my first Team Spirit. Arrived February 76 and left June 77. Back in country June 79-80 when President Park was assassinated and then all of the protests. KNP riot police makes other countries look like they're just getting started.
Well, yeah. Because when they see it on radar, they have to wonder.... Is that a real seagull or a US stealth aircraft that's about to make it rain flaming MiGs and aircraft parts?
Seeing a soldier get a whole can of beans and toilet paper would freak out NK. "Stop peeling fancy lids off your imperial bean cans...... Or you'll get nuked"
I started college on an overseas military campus back in the late 80's, where in Lit 101, I wrote a short story about a war arena where certain types of drones were banned. The class tore it up as unrealistic and a pipe dream, what unit would give up a rifleman, for a drone operator? Drones will stop the North Koreans and protect Taiwan from China.
For the last decade, every 3-4 months, North Korea has been using drones to attack South Korea and in response the South Korean defense industry has developed all sorts of anti-drone defenses and weapons. Last few years, South Korean SWAT teams always deploy with anti-drone devices.
Human operated drones are prone to jamming. Near-peer adversary can neutralize them too easily. Just give it time, about four years, and there’ll be those drones you’re talking about. Drones need A.I. with target and terrain identification software. Can’t rely on human operators nor GPS in future when fighting near-peer adversaries.
No matter how sophisticated combat drones become, they will never truly invalidate or replace the presence of human elements. Riflemen and drones will grow to support one another in a combined arms approach to warfare. Think of Metal Gear Solid 4; you still had human soldiers/mercenaries/operatives on the ground despite the wider spread proliferation of drones like the Gekko and Metal Gears.
My brother served on the DMZ in the late '60's during the "Second Korean War." After one of the North Korean raids the bodies of the dead Norks were brought to Panmunjon. At the direction of a US General, one of the bodies was brought into the Peace House and thrown across the table at the Nork poobahs. The Norks were quite perturbed by it.
@@AnthonyLagunas-yv6br My brother is still alive and corrected me on one one point. It wasn't an American officer, it was a South Korean officer who did it.
2:58 My dad was drafted in 1969 and to his surprise, they didn't ship him off to Vietnam but to Korea. While there, working as a radio engineer, his station was attacked by a small group of North Korean militants. They had killed everyone there by sneaking in silently and using blades instead of guns first, then went and put a finishing shot in those still alive. My dad was the only one to survive. He only lived because he had been on another person's body and, since both were stabbed, there was a considerable amount of blood...so, he played dead and waited until they left. ....that took longer than ideal, and he had some serious blood loss. he still managed to drag himself to help, though it was too late for everyone else. It always bothered me that, not only had he been stabbed and went through all that hell....only to, later, have to hide his injury (for some reason or another. he won't say. 🤷🏽♂️) and he never got a purple heart for it or anything. In fact, because he didn't have one and other people I knew did....as a kid, I found it hard to believe his story. Then I found his box of military documentation and he had received some sort of recognition from the army but...other than a piece of paper and a handshake, that was all he got. It took me years to finally convince him: "Dad....you are an army veteran. You served your nation when they called. Please, use the VA and their help." ......he, for years, refused to go to the VA because he 'didnt feel like a real vet' and thought the VA would share his opinion. They didn't and he gets great care from them now.
@@gfys756 🤦🏽♂️ believe it or don't. I don't care. 🤷🏽♂️ makes me wonder, though, why youd make such an assumption? Why would I make that up, in your opinio? To what end, exactly? ...to impress *_you?_* 🤭🤣 Those are rhetorical questions. I couldnt care less about what you think and your opinion.... 🤷🏽♂️ ....they're of no interest to me. To be fair, I do understand your skepticism, but I wouldn't lie and *use my own father to steal valor on UA-cam.* 🤦🏽♂️
@@evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879 I don't think the rest of us are really doubting the valor and badassery of your dad for having gone through that. It's honestly just more like the part that feels bizarre to hear about is the VA being quick to give great care, as they're kinda notorious for finding every excuse in the book to go "hey look, it's not military related, we won't help!", or in some places being the type to drop a pin for someone to pickup, only to go "look see, your back is fine, you don't need help". Although I suppose on the flipside, an obvious stab wound is probably much easier to pass through the system, and there's also likely some areas where it's easier than others. Everything else at least sounds pretty damn rough and cool.
I believe this story, shit like this is usually covered up when there was a major mistake made. When I was the mortar PL for my BN, the scout PSG was shot in the leg by an Iraqi Army patrol while he was doing his leader's recon (IA was literally doing the same thing). In the gunfight that kicked off, he was shot. When he recovered back in the US they made him sign some paper work to not talk about it with any media then they medboarded him out. So the army kinda sucks. On the flip side I'm so happy your dad is getting the care he needs. The Army does a good job making you think getting the help you earned causes a burden of some kind. Its just brainwashing. Glad he's getting help, I thank him for his service.
I was stationed at Kunsan AB Sept 85- Sept 86. March was the Team Spirit exercise. Other countries along with a lot of US troops would come in country and practice war games. The North always threatened war if we carried the exercises out. It was funny considering the size of the force there was at its largest. The Stars and Stripes (newspaper) would publish daily the skirmishes. We would see these fishing boats just off the shore of our base. Rusty old buckets but every once and a while one of them would have all kinds of antenna arrays. The ROK Army (South Korean army) would sink them regularly. Enjoyed my year there
I was stationed with the 2nd ID in 2004. I started in Camp Stanley and ended up in Casey. As a MLRS crewman I was kind of afraid of being stationed there, some of the stories were straight crazy. Make no mistake, this isn't like being anywhere else. Technically, a shoe drops and Korea is at war again. The training isn't phoned in. If you like to shoot, you could shoot monthly on Uncle Sam's dime. You get assigned to a unit, You have a rifle and a qualification that week. An MLRS crewman in the states would probably shoot within 45 days back then. Soldiers took care of Soldiers, weekend 1 You would probably have some friends. I actually felt like I was doing a job there.
Strictly speaking these are not "Joint" exercises, they are "Combined" exercises. "Joint" implies more than one service but NO allies. "Combined" includes "joint" but also coalition partners/allies.
My gramps served in Korea with the 1st Marine division. He was sent there in February 1951, was injured in April, but rejoined back with a different set of guys after getting out the hospital in Japan. After he came back from Korea the Marine Corps sent him to Nevada to witness an atomic bomb test where he sat in a trench with some other Marines & they detonated it lol. I have the news paper article about his Purple Heart, and when he was sent to Nevada. He just turned 94 a few months ago!
I as in the Marine Corps in 1968. (Yeah, that 1968, that Marine Corps.). I became a close friend of an ROK Marine in our training unit. He told me he and his fellow South Korean Marine regularly sneaked across the border to attack and kill North Korean soldiers then quickly sneak back to South Korea. I gather the incursions were some sort of rite of passage exercise that were not official. He seemed to consider the incursions as great training for what he believed was an inevitable all out war with North Korea.
I served 5 tours & 6 years with the old 2d ID (78-95). I was there for Team Spirit 78, 82, 84, 85 & 89! For my TS experiences, 78 was up by the DMZ in the Chorwon Valley! TS 82 onward was down by Wonju.... In 82, we drove our then M48A5 Tanks from Wonju through Seoul to Camp Casey!
while stationed in south korea (2dn inf div) i met a beautiful young woman who tested me several times. she never overtly asked military type questions just tested my resolve in fighting and defending south korea. one day after many months she suddenly disappeared and i was called in for questioning by several officers over a 3 day period about what i might have said to her and our general relationship. that's when i found out she was a north korean and that she'd surrendered to the south at camp casey. fun times.
What year was this? Was the spy's surrender intentional by her or did she get caught/found out? Also, was there any sort of statement or news story on it or her name/pictures?
@@JohnDorian-j7x i'm not sure of the year, but it was around 1992, maybe '93. during my questioning they didn't give me much info about how she was found out. and what they did tell me i didn't fully believe. they did say i wasn't supposed to talk to others about it. i heard later that there were a few others in different areas that were caught as well. so maybe you can find stuff about a network of them?
@@PaulC001 Danm, imagine the 2 of you got married. "Well son, here's how I met your mother, she was at first a North Korean spy, but she defected, we bonded during our time when she was a spy, and eventually she was allowed to move back home with me and we married."
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There's something else you didn't really touch on. The North Korean government relies heavily on the constant threat of war (real or imagined) to justify many of its own policies, as well as the many hardships endured by its people. It therefore makes sense that they would take advantage of joint military exercises to exaggerate the threat level posed by South Korea and the United States.
I did my year in Korea 89-90 it was crazy then, it's crazy now. Brings back real memories to hear the words Focus Lens again after all this time--thanks for that!
Did you know that, while the government was thinking about building shacks in the DMZ for negotiations, Jimmi Carter and Habitat for Humanity went out there and built one. Carter--for this and many other reasons--is one of my heroes.
Our adversaries are in trouble if Cappy is “average” equipped with “Spare parts!” Thanks for your continued service, and God Bless America and our Constitution!
You forgot the country wide alert in about 2000 when the PRK attacked the ROK Navy. It was a bloodbath with the People's Republic losing pretty much it's entire navy with little loss to the ROKs. I was there in the 2ID. We ended up with a Korean and American Presidential Unit Citation. The whole division responded to the conflict by going to unit basic load and manning all our vehicles and even started rolling to our staging areas. At the time we were given a lot of credit for the PRK backing down. That was my first duty assignment. As the Bn Chemo and Assistant S3 (and Night Battle Captain) at the exalted rank of O-1E. I learned quickly that my job was more than just "Nothin' but the coffee". 60 percent of the PRKs artillery ammunition was chemical and our unit was about 18 seconds from the PRKs forward artillery. While I was going to college I had been a 19K30 (Tank Commander) in the TxARNG. It helped pay my way through school and I got to meet a bunch of really great Americans. One of them was my 1SG, he had a 2ID combat patch for a tour in Korea in 69/70. So I had a pretty good notion what duty was going to be like in the ROK. We mostly trained conventional warfare, but every training event had elements of counter insurgency throughout. Even in 2000. EDIT: Lest I forget. This was during the time that there was a great deal of wrangling between the PRC and PRK because North Korean citizens were crossing their border to eat grass because they were starving. You can't make this stuff up.
First off, as always, great summary. I served in Korea for 4 years in the 80s (11C) and as an Army Range Officer from 1994-2004. EXPAT here now. As a RO, I dealt heavily with ROKA commanders and was a key player in RSO&I and I can tell you 100%, Team Spirit was a defensive/counter offensive exercise. There was NO evidence of us attacking the DPRK. IMHO, I firmly believe Kim is NOT worried about invasion at all. He is using this for two reasons: 1. To keep his people and military in check (the mother hen approach). 2. As a bargaining chip at the international table. (I'm mad, give me a cookie) Kim is not stupid. He knows he would lose badly in any level of conflict. [Although he'd draw a lot of blood on the way out]. He knows flaunting fake tanks and antiquated equipment does not scare anyone, but maybe he can get milk with that cookie if he's REALLY mad. 😀
Awesome, you explained and filled in a lot of the blanks for me. There is much more nuance in the relationship between the North and the South. Great job.
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It's really cute when they Think they have a chance or can intimidate us when we have weapons that could literally take out 90% of their military infrastructure and just a few days😂... They just mad they know they have no chance against us
@@halo129830 let's be honest our bureaucrats will somehow mess it up enough to give them a chance unlike desert Storm where they didn't have a chance to intervene and ruin it so yeah I'd probably be that quick or if the military didn't feel bad for them and didn't give them a chance like they usually do in other conflicts 🤔... And yes we've been so overpowered that our military personnel felt bad and decided to nerf themselves to give the other side a chance...
@@halo129830 More like backstab nam rise of the corrupt bureaucrats and the drag out the war for more money agenda 😓... Imagine how many lives were lost just because of their corporate/normal greed
These videos where you cover economic, diplomatic and strategic issues, and how the military influences, and is influenced by those regional and international conditions/events are really interesting. You seem to have found a really good balance between typical 5 minute UA-cam videos that barely scratch the surface, and full 1 hour+ documentaries.
The provocation is US fascism after they tried to genocide North Korea 70 years ago (after installing a murderous fascists in the south who mass murdered tenthousands of innocent civilians BEFORE the war, not even starting with all the shit he did during it) still standing there with a full army, waiting to finish the job. DIsgusting, but absolutelys no surprise when it comes to US fascism.
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( 3:06 ) I did not expect a military blogging channel to be the first to hear "anything/all but X" used correctly in media. Gave the video a like just for this. Most of the time the phrase gets use to mean "absolutely the thing" as opposed to the correct "absolutely not the thing"
BS. North Korea invaded the south and continues periodic terrorist attacks. North Korea threatens nuclear attack of the south & only North Korea has developed nuclear weapons. All of Seoul is under artillery range of North Korea and is regularly threatened. But you are going to try and characterize the democratic, self-sufficient, free south as the threat. Foolish & blind comrade. We don't believe you.
except ROK doesn't have any armor divisions, much less 4. they do have 3 mech divisions; & 7 armor brigades, spread out to support the corps. mech divisions, nominally under VII Corps, are spread across the rear of II, III, & V Corps; not positioned to form an armored punch into the north & up to pyeongyang.
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When I was stationed in ROK. Our yearly training was defensive in nature. I was based at a camp that had Black Hawks and MLRS. Our training area was bit south of a choke point between two mountains to protect Seol. The plan was to let DPRK force role down and hit them in that choke point. We were the last defensive spot before Seol.
It created one of the worst borders ever devised by human hands. Besides being an idiotic straight line that ignored rivers and mountains, it cut through the center of the Ongjin Peninsula, which left the South Koreans defending the southern end with their backs pointed towards the sea. When the North Koreans invaded in June 1950, the ROK troops had no means of retreat and were completely wiped out.
I was the Ammo handler for 4/7 Cav at Hovey for 3 1/2 yrs, last live fire War Games i was involved in was during Monsoon season and wrecked havoc between Casey and Hovey. BUT watching the "targeted" mountain get lit up was impressive to watch.
God, the fact that we brought a military force equivalent to the military strength of most nations on earth in order to cut down a tree is why I love America.
... He isn't. He's American. Italian is not a race. It's a nationality. We're you born in Italy? Do you live in Italy? If the answer to both of these questions is no then you aren't Italian.
I have fond memories of Team Spirit 85 and 88. The Norks got real uppity when Seoul hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics, threatening to blow a dam flooding the Han River.
I feel like it helps keep things a little more light hearted instead of depressing and a bit of a downer sometimes : o but please let me know if you enjoyed the music or if you thought it was distracting , if enough people dislike it I can definitely change it
@@Taskandpurposewhen I was in Korea in 1999 a south millionaire sent a million head of cattle across the border for the famine they were having. Got any info on the aid that does get in?
@@BoraHorzaGobuchul it's not that one excludes the other, it's that the former isn't a thing; which is what his statement means. just as some take it for gospel, that NK developed nukes in order to defend itself; its nuke program is to coerce, not defend.
@@cladglas Tyrants like in NK are primarily afraid of their own population riding up and deposing them - that's why they (a) promote popular fear of the aggressive world and (b) seek to build up an army of well-fed guard dogs to defend them against such a potential uprising. I can see it with my own eyes as I live in Mordor which is also such a state. It would be a mistake however to dismiss the fear of the despotic leadership of a direct conflict with the West. They do fear it because they know that absent the nuclear option, they stand no chance in such a conflict should it materialize. Granted, this fear is largely theoretical as they have learned long ago to actually avoid doing anything that would provoke such conflict. But the fear is still deep inside.
Absolutely! I have heard stories of people who started with little or no knowledge but managed to emerge victorious thanks to Ana Graciela Blackwelder.
My PSG back in the 80s was a survivor of the Ax Handle incident. When we deployed to a Team Spirit exercise he was kept from the field training because of what we now call PTSD. He was a good leader, but he never got over that.
Reagan? The maniac who almost killed us all and ruined started the brutal downfall of your country (of course the rest of the world could even be thankful for that...).
I went on three (I think) Team Spirit Exercises and one Freedom Shield. South Korea has to be one of the cushiest places a GI can be stationed. I loved it there. Hell, I'd like to go back as a civilian and eat my way around the peninsula. Korean food is wonderful and now I understand that the beer is even decent. It was terrible back in the day.
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Correction, it wasn't president Johnson, it was president Ford
@@28ebdh3udnav thank you for the correction much apprecaited ! I'll go do push ups to make up for it
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North Korea is truly the dystopian nightmare we all dread (Even the Chinese).
Chinese can sing after bon jovi.
"We are half way there"
Nope, that's only what your western propaganda says. You don't know anything, your reality is shaped by mark zukerberg, biden the pedo, and google.
North Korea is full of northern hillbillies
Check out Turkmenistan. They make North Korea look reasonable.
The President of Turkmenistan, Gods Prophet on Earth, (His actual Title), decided different coloured cars made his city look messy, so he ruled that only white cars could be sold. That wasn't working quickly enough, so coloured cars started getting towed away, and you could only get yours back if you paid for it to be painted white. It's bizarro land, but richer than North Korea.
One good thing the President does is he makes Government officials do a 22 mile mountain heritage hike every 2 years, while he screams at them from a helicopter that they're too slow. If they tried that in the USA, most of your Senate would be dead first outing, and you'd at least get some young blood in there...
A perfect socialist society
They see all the food they have and realize the US and South Korean Soldiers can actually March on foot and not collapse.
😂😂😂
If you're good citizen of Korea and born rich you live good life.... 👍 just like in the west... communism around the world.
Even such dumb propaganda works on you dummies huh
@@peterpanini96 nah I'm broke and I'm not starving
@@budgetgaming4802same lmao, I don’t see families eating grass around me.
Insane show of force just to make a statement to finish cutting the tree is so cool.
He didn't tell the full story. Look it up. It is interesting and convoluted as it is sick and depressing.
Ah yess.. world war tree
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Always an underlying feeling of dread, no matter how much you can distract yourself with jokes. I wish it upon nobody
@@johnsterling6659 three words: Mad Jack Churchill
Two American servicemen lost their lives. Not something I would describe as "cool."
Mama always said North Korea is so ornery because they got all them teeth, but nothing to chew.
momma sure knows her geopolitics! gee wiz
@@Taskandpurpose well, 4 out of her 6 marriages were military. Hopefully she learned something other than being a clearing barrel.
Literally lol, as I munch on crackers.
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My dad fought on the front lines of Korea for a year in the 1950s as a Seargant in the Marine Corp. He finally died last November. I think he freaked out the North Koreans also 😊. Seriously, I think he'd be asking to pursue peace at all costs. He woke up asking about the Artillery one night during his last week until he realized where he was. Freaked my mom out. Let's be careful what we ask for...
I dated a girl whose grandfather was in the Korean War; he literally almost froze to death. Although, he rad a rather unusual, and pleasurable, experience towards the end of his duty. He purchased a sailboat in Korea (during the war), and despite having no maritime experience, sailed to Tahiti for a couple weeks.
@jayklink851 That generation could do damn near anything they set their minds on. You would swear my dad was made of steel. Nothing phased him (yes, not even imminent death). I guess if you lived in hell for a year, nothing WOULD phase you afterwards.
Ah, a Sergeant in the Marine Corps. 🦅🌎⚓️
@@kevinong1735 Yes.
North Korea still has about 100,000 artillery pieces pointed at Seoul, that can be fired any minute.
Yet, somehow, the South Koreans are really chill about it. They're more worried their noodles are cooked right.
North Korea needs to identify an enemy to redirect their people's attention away from their own deficiencies. The US exercises are a convenient headline for North Korea to use as a scapegoat.
I mean, NK has some pretty valid reasons to resent the US. Joint military exercises are probably seen as constant reminders of all the pain they feel the west has inflicted upon them.
Same with Iran.
@@milkdrinker7Nah, they lost a war THEY started and got pissy for it.
@@KrakenWindlol... They didn't lose Mr military . It was the largest retreat in US history because China got involved..good lord
@@milkdrinker7 North Korea's pains were self-inflicted. Their victim mentality when they were the aggressor doesn't change that fact. This is from someone who was born in South Korea.
The Team Spirit exercises were defensive in nature. I flew F16’s at two different bases in South Korea. March is the earliest time of the year that the rice paddies and natural corridors are adequate for armor to invade from the North. The second echelon of North Korean forces are now on the DMZ with the first echelon. This dramatically reduces the warning time and response to an invasion from the North. The extra forces added during Team Spirit would negate those conditions.
great to hear from a pilot ! I agree, it's pretty obvious when you look at the training exercises are designed for defense. also looking at the types of assets and numbers it clear invasion is not on anyones mind.
Bingo-Bango, Brother.
I served twice in Korea 94-95 U-2's and 2000-2001 A-10's. Simply put US forces in South Korea are there to fight a delaying action till their support from Japan arrives. As the popular saying goes we are nothing but a speed bump. PIL SUNG!
I did Team Spirit 1976, 1977, 1980. That first one was wild. I had the chance to go down to Sea Range and watch our Hawk and Improved Hawks fire. I wasn't expecting them to move as fast as they do as I was concentrating while watching through binoculars. Thought I had snapped something in my neck when the first one took off...😂
@@johnshackford skivvy nine 84-85
I was stationed at Kunsan AB ROK. We did an annual exercise called Team Spirit and the North would always lose their minds.
Kunsan 8th Security Police from 83 to 84. The Wolf Pack.
8th EMS (AGE) Sept 85- Sept 86
4/5 ADA Camp Casey ROK 1998 Stinger Missiles
Camp Castle, Engineer..team spirit 91
Because it... smelled like team spirit?
You talked about the tree being cut down on the DMZ in 1976. I was there. I with HHC 1/23rd INF, 2nd DIV Camp Hovey. I also spent 3 weeks on the DMZ relieving the 2/9th INF so they could show they were combat ready. I remember in March 1976 our unit was air lifted on C-130's to the east coast of Korea for an exercise. I don't think we were told it was the annual exercise with the South. Interesting video.
I remember that time with the tree, since we just sat around cleaning our M-16's, over and over and over... Our commo shop was completely loaded on the vehicles in case we needed to bug out. I mean EVERYTHING. Even the stove for the shop was loaded. We were also within artillery range of the North. Most of the time we were just board waiting for something to happen or to be released back to normal duty.
@@WrongwayF16 Oh man, how old are you now?
My older brother served at Camp Hovey 1981-83.
That was my first Team Spirit. Arrived February 76 and left June 77. Back in country June 79-80 when President Park was assassinated and then all of the protests. KNP riot police makes other countries look like they're just getting started.
Lt. Barrett was a childhood friend of mine. A rough way to check out.
North Korea is always angry
My mom is too after my drunk ass dad packed up and left her for the waitress at Waffle House…
@@Av-vd3wkbut did you see the rack on that waitress?
@@Av-vd3wk WHAT no way is that true???
More like hungry for attention.
Hungry like the wolf. Feeding the anger pains
A seagull that lands in North Korea freaks North Korea out
It better be fast, or it's dinner.
@@ExPatinUK
or it's shot as a western spy!
Stealth Seagull.
@@tsubadaikhan6332 It should, birds aren't real.
Well, yeah. Because when they see it on radar, they have to wonder.... Is that a real seagull or a US stealth aircraft that's about to make it rain flaming MiGs and aircraft parts?
Wow Cappy I thought I knew my Military history, but you have been killing it with these deep dives into regional conflicts you have been doing lately.
One of my greatest experiences while in the US Marines , was trying with ROK Marines . They are Warriors ! Semper Fi to Them 🙏
Seeing a soldier get a whole can of beans and toilet paper would freak out NK. "Stop peeling fancy lids off your imperial bean cans...... Or you'll get nuked"
I started college on an overseas military campus back in the late 80's, where in Lit 101, I wrote a short story about a war arena where certain types of drones were banned. The class tore it up as unrealistic and a pipe dream, what unit would give up a rifleman, for a drone operator? Drones will stop the North Koreans and protect Taiwan from China.
For the last decade, every 3-4 months, North Korea has been using drones to attack South Korea and in response the South Korean defense industry has developed all sorts of anti-drone defenses and weapons. Last few years, South Korean SWAT teams always deploy with anti-drone devices.
Human operated drones are prone to jamming. Near-peer adversary can neutralize them too easily. Just give it time, about four years, and there’ll be those drones you’re talking about. Drones need A.I. with target and terrain identification software. Can’t rely on human operators nor GPS in future when fighting near-peer adversaries.
@@viewer3412 This sounds like how the Terminator scenario will happen...
No matter how sophisticated combat drones become, they will never truly invalidate or replace the presence of human elements. Riflemen and drones will grow to support one another in a combined arms approach to warfare. Think of Metal Gear Solid 4; you still had human soldiers/mercenaries/operatives on the ground despite the wider spread proliferation of drones like the Gekko and Metal Gears.
@@LeeviHokka126You should try watching others movies. There are some good ones out there.
My brother served on the DMZ in the late '60's during the "Second Korean War." After one of the North Korean raids the bodies of the dead Norks were brought to Panmunjon. At the direction of a US General, one of the bodies was brought into the Peace House and thrown across the table at the Nork poobahs. The Norks were quite perturbed by it.
If your brother told you this, he was telling you a story.
@@AnthonyLagunas-yv6br Were you there?
@@tamer1773 I served 4 tours in the DMZ. No officer would do that, in that situation.
@@AnthonyLagunas-yv6br My brother is still alive and corrected me on one one point. It wasn't an American officer, it was a South Korean officer who did it.
@@tamer1773 South Korean soldiers were feared in Vietnam. They did not play.
Thank you to you and your grandfather for your service. 🇺🇸 the Korean War should get more attention and examination.
USA: 👁️
North Korea: That is an act of hostility! America wants war and we must respond in kind!
What does Operation Paul Bunyan do to the NK? 😅
Really? you are not worth it.
" *A sea of irradiated cobalt* "
The US forced South Korea to abandon their own nuclear defense.
Based
upgrade
I dont think US with all its human rights violations and war crimes is a good world police and I don't think they will be that forever
What do you think you been drinkin??😂😂😂
2:58 My dad was drafted in 1969 and to his surprise, they didn't ship him off to Vietnam but to Korea. While there, working as a radio engineer, his station was attacked by a small group of North Korean militants. They had killed everyone there by sneaking in silently and using blades instead of guns first, then went and put a finishing shot in those still alive. My dad was the only one to survive. He only lived because he had been on another person's body and, since both were stabbed, there was a considerable amount of blood...so, he played dead and waited until they left.
....that took longer than ideal, and he had some serious blood loss. he still managed to drag himself to help, though it was too late for everyone else.
It always bothered me that, not only had he been stabbed and went through all that hell....only to, later, have to hide his injury (for some reason or another. he won't say. 🤷🏽♂️) and he never got a purple heart for it or anything.
In fact, because he didn't have one and other people I knew did....as a kid, I found it hard to believe his story. Then I found his box of military documentation and he had received some sort of recognition from the army but...other than a piece of paper and a handshake, that was all he got.
It took me years to finally convince him: "Dad....you are an army veteran. You served your nation when they called. Please, use the VA and their help." ......he, for years, refused to go to the VA because he 'didnt feel like a real vet' and thought the VA would share his opinion.
They didn't and he gets great care from them now.
@@gfys756 🤦🏽♂️ believe it or don't. I don't care. 🤷🏽♂️ makes me wonder, though, why youd make such an assumption? Why would I make that up, in your opinio? To what end, exactly? ...to impress *_you?_* 🤭🤣
Those are rhetorical questions. I couldnt care less about what you think and your opinion.... 🤷🏽♂️ ....they're of no interest to me.
To be fair, I do understand your skepticism, but I wouldn't lie and *use my own father to steal valor on UA-cam.* 🤦🏽♂️
@@evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879 I don't think the rest of us are really doubting the valor and badassery of your dad for having gone through that. It's honestly just more like the part that feels bizarre to hear about is the VA being quick to give great care, as they're kinda notorious for finding every excuse in the book to go "hey look, it's not military related, we won't help!", or in some places being the type to drop a pin for someone to pickup, only to go "look see, your back is fine, you don't need help".
Although I suppose on the flipside, an obvious stab wound is probably much easier to pass through the system, and there's also likely some areas where it's easier than others. Everything else at least sounds pretty damn rough and cool.
I was Army 1974-81 and it took me some years to go to the VA and use some of my other benefits.
He probably had survivers guilt. So glad you got him the care he needed.
I believe this story, shit like this is usually covered up when there was a major mistake made. When I was the mortar PL for my BN, the scout PSG was shot in the leg by an Iraqi Army patrol while he was doing his leader's recon (IA was literally doing the same thing). In the gunfight that kicked off, he was shot. When he recovered back in the US they made him sign some paper work to not talk about it with any media then they medboarded him out. So the army kinda sucks.
On the flip side I'm so happy your dad is getting the care he needs. The Army does a good job making you think getting the help you earned causes a burden of some kind. Its just brainwashing. Glad he's getting help, I thank him for his service.
I was stationed at Kunsan AB Sept 85- Sept 86. March was the Team Spirit exercise. Other countries along with a lot of US troops would come in country and practice war games. The North always threatened war if we carried the exercises out. It was funny considering the size of the force there was at its largest. The Stars and Stripes (newspaper) would publish daily the skirmishes. We would see these fishing boats just off the shore of our base. Rusty old buckets but every once and a while one of them would have all kinds of antenna arrays. The ROK Army (South Korean army) would sink them regularly. Enjoyed my year there
I was stationed with the 2nd ID in 2004. I started in Camp Stanley and ended up in Casey. As a MLRS crewman I was kind of afraid of being stationed there, some of the stories were straight crazy. Make no mistake, this isn't like being anywhere else. Technically, a shoe drops and Korea is at war again. The training isn't phoned in. If you like to shoot, you could shoot monthly on Uncle Sam's dime. You get assigned to a unit, You have a rifle and a qualification that week. An MLRS crewman in the states would probably shoot within 45 days back then. Soldiers took care of Soldiers, weekend 1 You would probably have some friends.
I actually felt like I was doing a job there.
I was in Stanley in 2004 also but stayed in Stanely for the whole time. Just not in the arty unit in the Aviation support unit as medic.
99 4/5 ADA Stinger Though Camp Casey
@@ranranran8316 Home of my favorite Popeye's, or used to was anyway.
@@littlejimmy7402 thing I miss was yahkeymando. Guess they are just fried dumplings 🤷 funny how the mind sticks to the small things in life
Glad to hear someone talk about the Korean war. I was pissed off when the News dept reporting that Afghanistan was the longest war.
I'd argue that the 100 years war between france/britain was a bit longer. (116 years)
@@AlexFlodder it exposes how ignorant the news is.
@@theodoreparkin982 The news agencies hire mainly monkeys who can type...
Strictly speaking these are not "Joint" exercises, they are "Combined" exercises. "Joint" implies more than one service but NO allies. "Combined" includes "joint" but also coalition partners/allies.
It's great to see you have a SUPER LEGIT SPONSOR!
Your tireless energy is amazing. You are always delving into topics critical to the national concern.
My gramps served in Korea with the 1st Marine division. He was sent there in February 1951, was injured in April, but rejoined back with a different set of guys after getting out the hospital in Japan. After he came back from Korea the Marine Corps sent him to Nevada to witness an atomic bomb test where he sat in a trench with some other Marines & they detonated it lol. I have the news paper article about his Purple Heart, and when he was sent to Nevada. He just turned 94 a few months ago!
I as in the Marine Corps in 1968. (Yeah, that 1968, that Marine Corps.). I became a close friend of an ROK Marine in our training unit. He told me he and his fellow South Korean Marine regularly sneaked across the border to attack and kill North Korean soldiers then quickly sneak back to South Korea. I gather the incursions were some sort of rite of passage exercise that were not official. He seemed to consider the incursions as great training for what he believed was an inevitable all out war with North Korea.
The ROK got to live there we just come through on a Tour
"One man's boring training exercise is another man's geopolitical crisis."🤣
I served 5 tours & 6 years with the old 2d ID (78-95). I was there for Team Spirit 78, 82, 84, 85 & 89!
For my TS experiences, 78 was up by the DMZ in the Chorwon Valley! TS 82 onward was down by Wonju....
In 82, we drove our then M48A5 Tanks from Wonju through Seoul to Camp Casey!
There is a museum tank on camp Casey painted with the face of a tiger on it called Hellzacom'en
Maybe you can tell me when did "Raise up!" first become the 2ID's unofficial motto?
while stationed in south korea (2dn inf div) i met a beautiful young woman who tested me several times. she never overtly asked military type questions just tested my resolve in fighting and defending south korea.
one day after many months she suddenly disappeared and i was called in for questioning by several officers over a 3 day period about what i might have said to her and our general relationship. that's when i found out she was a north korean and that she'd surrendered to the south at camp casey.
fun times.
What year was this? Was the spy's surrender intentional by her or did she get caught/found out? Also, was there any sort of statement or news story on it or her name/pictures?
@@JohnDorian-j7x i'm not sure of the year, but it was around 1992, maybe '93. during my questioning they didn't give me much info about how she was found out. and what they did tell me i didn't fully believe. they did say i wasn't supposed to talk to others about it. i heard later that there were a few others in different areas that were caught as well. so maybe you can find stuff about a network of them?
@@PaulC001 Danm, imagine the 2 of you got married. "Well son, here's how I met your mother, she was at first a North Korean spy, but she defected, we bonded during our time when she was a spy, and eventually she was allowed to move back home with me and we married."
I never fast forward through the ads on your channel the way I do with all the other channels on UA-cam. You are able to make the advertiser's messages informative and enjoyable. My friends and I often purchase goods and services from companies who advertise on Task&Purpose and we know of many more people who do too.
There's something else you didn't really touch on. The North Korean government relies heavily on the constant threat of war (real or imagined) to justify many of its own policies, as well as the many hardships endured by its people. It therefore makes sense that they would take advantage of joint military exercises to exaggerate the threat level posed by South Korea and the United States.
This is a great point I didn’t even think of that
I did my year in Korea 89-90 it was crazy then, it's crazy now. Brings back real memories to hear the words Focus Lens again after all this time--thanks for that!
Did you know that, while the government was thinking about building shacks in the DMZ for negotiations, Jimmi Carter and Habitat for Humanity went out there and built one. Carter--for this and many other reasons--is one of my heroes.
Thanks for the knowledge buddy.
North Korea makes me sad… every single person there is a person. A hungry person with a family that they are afraid will be arrested. What can we do?
My friend i could listen to you all day and not get bored. Just love your channel. you are very well informed. Stay safe.
1976 is Ford, not Johnson
Big brain fart there, having LBJ serving through Nixon's (plus Ford's) terms, since that would violate the Constitution in a number of ways.
I just wanted to say I love your videos and while we’re both a little biased to the USA, you still give the facts. Thank you Chris!
Our adversaries are in trouble if Cappy is “average” equipped with “Spare parts!”
Thanks for your continued service, and God Bless America and our Constitution!
Exactly the kind of content that brought me to this channel.
And you never disappoint.
There are 28,499 American troops in South Korea and now one lone genius NCO in Vladivostok. 😔
You forgot the country wide alert in about 2000 when the PRK attacked the ROK Navy. It was a bloodbath with the People's Republic losing pretty much it's entire navy with little loss to the ROKs. I was there in the 2ID. We ended up with a Korean and American Presidential Unit Citation. The whole division responded to the conflict by going to unit basic load and manning all our vehicles and even started rolling to our staging areas. At the time we were given a lot of credit for the PRK backing down. That was my first duty assignment. As the Bn Chemo and Assistant S3 (and Night Battle Captain) at the exalted rank of O-1E. I learned quickly that my job was more than just "Nothin' but the coffee". 60 percent of the PRKs artillery ammunition was chemical and our unit was about 18 seconds from the PRKs forward artillery. While I was going to college I had been a 19K30 (Tank Commander) in the TxARNG. It helped pay my way through school and I got to meet a bunch of really great Americans. One of them was my 1SG, he had a 2ID combat patch for a tour in Korea in 69/70. So I had a pretty good notion what duty was going to be like in the ROK. We mostly trained conventional warfare, but every training event had elements of counter insurgency throughout. Even in 2000. EDIT: Lest I forget. This was during the time that there was a great deal of wrangling between the PRC and PRK because North Korean citizens were crossing their border to eat grass because they were starving. You can't make this stuff up.
192 billion dollars in 1969 was a fuckton of money
Pretty sure Uncle Sam $$$ was majority of ROK's GDP for many years until their economy took off.
Thanks for the summary of the military operations there. It is always good to review history to have a better perspective of the current situation.
I saw your notification an said “f yea”
First off, as always, great summary.
I served in Korea for 4 years in the 80s (11C) and as an Army Range Officer from 1994-2004. EXPAT here now. As a RO, I dealt heavily with ROKA commanders and was a key player in RSO&I and I can tell you 100%, Team Spirit was a defensive/counter offensive exercise. There was NO evidence of us attacking the DPRK. IMHO, I firmly believe Kim is NOT worried about invasion at all. He is using this for two reasons:
1. To keep his people and military in check (the mother hen approach).
2. As a bargaining chip at the international table. (I'm mad, give me a cookie) Kim is not stupid.
He knows he would lose badly in any level of conflict. [Although he'd draw a lot of blood on the way out]. He knows flaunting fake tanks and antiquated equipment does not scare anyone, but maybe he can get milk with that cookie if he's REALLY mad. 😀
I loved it when North Korea told Trump they have a button and he said I have a button too and it's a lot bigger than yours.
Awesome, you explained and filled in a lot of the blanks for me. There is much more nuance in the relationship between the North and the South. Great job.
South Korean food is amazing. Gimme that kimchi and BBQ chicken baby!
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It's really cute when they Think they have a chance or can intimidate us when we have weapons that could literally take out 90% of their military infrastructure and just a few days😂... They just mad they know they have no chance against us
More like the first hour
@@halo129830 let's be honest our bureaucrats will somehow mess it up enough to give them a chance unlike desert Storm where they didn't have a chance to intervene and ruin it so yeah I'd probably be that quick or if the military didn't feel bad for them and didn't give them a chance like they usually do in other conflicts 🤔... And yes we've been so overpowered that our military personnel felt bad and decided to nerf themselves to give the other side a chance...
@@dankdaze42069 Vietnam all over again
@@halo129830 More like backstab nam rise of the corrupt bureaucrats and the drag out the war for more money agenda 😓... Imagine how many lives were lost just because of their corporate/normal greed
They also have a number of nuclear weapons...
These videos where you cover economic, diplomatic and strategic issues, and how the military influences, and is influenced by those regional and international conditions/events are really interesting. You seem to have found a really good balance between typical 5 minute UA-cam videos that barely scratch the surface, and full 1 hour+ documentaries.
Love the channel, Great video!
Good reporting! Keep up the wonderful work you are doing. Truly educational!
Even if there're no joint execise, they'll just come up with new headline for 'provocation. '
The provocation is US fascism after they tried to genocide North Korea 70 years ago (after installing a murderous fascists in the south who mass murdered tenthousands of innocent civilians BEFORE the war, not even starting with all the shit he did during it) still standing there with a full army, waiting to finish the job.
DIsgusting, but absolutelys no surprise when it comes to US fascism.
Another great job, Chris!
Screw Navy Fed, my dad was a retired E9 dieing from basically drinking himself into Alzheimer's. So my sister took stewardship for him. Instead of helping us get through the situation as we'd done business with Navy Federal since dad and mom joined the fleet. They refused to work with us even after having a court ordered stewardship appointment., They said they don't help or deal with these situations and must close my fathers accounts. That's it, no help, no compassion, NOTHING. My family and I will NEVER do business with them again. Screw them, their polices, and their bullcrap "oh we care" lies. Great thing to be dealing with as our father was self destructing in front of our eyes.
( 3:06 ) I did not expect a military blogging channel to be the first to hear "anything/all but X" used correctly in media. Gave the video a like just for this.
Most of the time the phrase gets use to mean "absolutely the thing" as opposed to the correct "absolutely not the thing"
I was part of Team-Spirit’81
Fascinating, thank you for posting.
In South Korea, it is no secret that the "defensive operation" actually inculdes sending 4 armor div into PyungYang.
South Korean military is weak !
Offense is the best defense
BS. North Korea invaded the south and continues periodic terrorist attacks. North Korea threatens nuclear attack of the south & only North Korea has developed nuclear weapons. All of Seoul is under artillery range of North Korea and is regularly threatened. But you are going to try and characterize the democratic, self-sufficient, free south as the threat. Foolish & blind comrade. We don't believe you.
except ROK doesn't have any armor divisions, much less 4. they do have 3 mech divisions; & 7 armor brigades, spread out to support the corps. mech divisions, nominally under VII Corps, are spread across the rear of II, III, & V Corps; not positioned to form an armored punch into the north & up to pyeongyang.
South Korea does not have a strong military.
North Korea will decimate them if China allows them.
As a member of Navy Federal Credit Union. I can confirm.. this "Bank" is amazing. I'm so glad I am lucky enough to do business with them. They're awesome.
Us military drill: exist
North Korea: me no like me angy me launch missile
When I was stationed in ROK. Our yearly training was defensive in nature. I was based at a camp that had Black Hawks and MLRS. Our training area was bit south of a choke point between two mountains to protect Seol. The plan was to let DPRK force role down and hit them in that choke point. We were the last defensive spot before Seol.
I’m gonna guess it’s because they’re actual exercises with a practical purpose and not just for show like 75% of what North Korea does
I normally don’t comment, but please do more stuff like this. I learn a lot from it and it’s really well put together. Thanks!
Latitude 38 was picked kind of carelessly by some guy because the newly formed NATO had thier meeting at latitude 38 in san francisco
It created one of the worst borders ever devised by human hands. Besides being an idiotic straight line that ignored rivers and mountains, it cut through the center of the Ongjin Peninsula, which left the South Koreans defending the southern end with their backs pointed towards the sea. When the North Koreans invaded in June 1950, the ROK troops had no means of retreat and were completely wiped out.
Great program, thanks.
60 Patriot batteries is insane!!
There's more Patriot systems in that one place than anywhere else on the planet
And utterly worthless for those +60 billion dollars they cost.
I was the Ammo handler for 4/7 Cav at Hovey for 3 1/2 yrs, last live fire War Games i was involved in was during Monsoon season and wrecked havoc between Casey and Hovey. BUT watching the "targeted" mountain get lit up was impressive to watch.
God, the fact that we brought a military force equivalent to the military strength of most nations on earth in order to cut down a tree is why I love America.
Typo - check the word ‘exercises’ just before your Navy Trust commercial.
3rd consecutive video of Cappy not mentioning he is Italian
Lol, Meatballs!
As an Italian we are about to disown for that😂
The way he uses his hands as part of his talk's is the dead giveaway. Only a true Italian can do it 😂
Foget abou it-
... He isn't. He's American. Italian is not a race. It's a nationality. We're you born in Italy? Do you live in Italy? If the answer to both of these questions is no then you aren't Italian.
Great video, keep them coming bud
I like the quiet recognition of Okinawa as an independent nation.
I have fond memories of Team Spirit 85 and 88. The Norks got real uppity when Seoul hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics, threatening to blow a dam flooding the Han River.
North Korea?... Crops?...
What crops?...
Unless you mean grass..
reason NK gets terrified, they get reminded what they face if they attack SK every time we do exercises.
Putting that upbeat jazzy funk/disco groove underneath this was crazy 😂
I feel like it helps keep things a little more light hearted instead of depressing and a bit of a downer sometimes : o but please let me know if you enjoyed the music or if you thought it was distracting , if enough people dislike it I can definitely change it
@@Taskandpurposewhen I was in Korea in 1999 a south millionaire sent a million head of cattle across the border for the famine they were having. Got any info on the aid that does get in?
Spent a year in South Korea, and yes this yearly exercise was a mass flex had a blast doing them.
I'm guessing because they'd call the buildup to an invasion a training exercise just like RU did with UA. Let's see if I'm right lol
I took part in these exercises way back in the 90s, the ROK military is a serious bunch of guys. The officers and NCOs are very professional.
Oh please. They aren't freaked out. Kim dong short just rattles his saber once inwhile to get attention.
He a petulant Mman child throwing a temper tantrum in order to get attention in order to boost his ego.
bingo! they've known, for decades, that ROK/US isn't going to attack.
One does not exclude the other
@@BoraHorzaGobuchul it's not that one excludes the other, it's that the former isn't a thing; which is what his statement means. just as some take it for gospel, that NK developed nukes in order to defend itself; its nuke program is to coerce, not defend.
@@cladglas Tyrants like in NK are primarily afraid of their own population riding up and deposing them - that's why they (a) promote popular fear of the aggressive world and (b) seek to build up an army of well-fed guard dogs to defend them against such a potential uprising. I can see it with my own eyes as I live in Mordor which is also such a state.
It would be a mistake however to dismiss the fear of the despotic leadership of a direct conflict with the West. They do fear it because they know that absent the nuclear option, they stand no chance in such a conflict should it materialize. Granted, this fear is largely theoretical as they have learned long ago to actually avoid doing anything that would provoke such conflict. But the fear is still deep inside.
I wasn’t aware of the various incursions over the years. Thanks for the history, Chris.
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My PSG back in the 80s was a survivor of the Ax Handle incident. When we deployed to a Team Spirit exercise he was kept from the field training because of what we now call PTSD. He was a good leader, but he never got over that.
So glad President Reagan kept US troops there after President Carter almost pulled them out!
Reagan? The maniac who almost killed us all and ruined started the brutal downfall of your country (of course the rest of the world could even be thankful for that...).
Thanks for sharing Cappy
I do have to say I very much respect the operators of unit 124 for not harming the civilians who spotted them.
Unit 684 you should read about it
Commie
@@bradpotter3197narrow minded.
@@bradpotter3197 Consider removing the crayons from your orifices.
I went on three (I think) Team Spirit Exercises and one Freedom Shield. South Korea has to be one of the cushiest places a GI can be stationed. I loved it there. Hell, I'd like to go back as a civilian and eat my way around the peninsula. Korean food is wonderful and now I understand that the beer is even decent. It was terrible back in the day.
President Ford, not President Johnson
At 10:58, it was President Ford, not President Johnson, who authorized Operation Paul Bunyan. This video is excellent work. Thank you, Cappy!
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🎶so ronery & terribry arone.🎶
😥
Is that you Hans Brix?
Chris, thanks for this insightful video on the DMZ and the log-term aftermath of the Korean War.
Anyone else watching at work?
Sucks my break ends in 5 minutes
That was great, thank you.
As a vet, visiting the DMZ and the “axe murders” location really reminds you why you’re there.