History & Heroes Of the Korean DMZ: 1953 to Today
The U.S. Army’s 45th CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) Company has rotated to Camp Casey. “U.S. Army Hazardous Response companies conduct CBRN reconnaissance, surveillance and decontamination operations with conventional and Special Operations forces around the world and provide support to civil authorities across the nation,” according to this Army press release. “Capt. Michael Vane is…
DMZ vets may recall intel briefings about the quality of DPRK munitions (and its possibly underfed soldiers). Now that the munitions are getting a try out in combat the results are not so hot. “The poor quality of North Korean ammunition used by Russia in Ukraine has been widely discussed. In December, the Ukrainian Armed…
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“A former South Korean prisoner of war, who was held in North Korea for 50 years before making his escape, died on Wednesday, leaving only nine such surviving escapees in the South,” reports the Korea Times. More unreturned RoK POWs are last known alive in the North… The US government has failed to act on…