http://rokdrop.com/2006/12/01/zaytun-unit-to-be-redeployed-from-iraq/ Korea From North to South Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:02:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://rokdrop.com/2006/12/01/zaytun-unit-to-be-redeployed-from-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-14705 Totten on the ROK Army in Iraq at ROK Drop Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:34:51 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/?p=1851#comment-14705 [...] My second issue with the deployment is that for having originally a unit of 3,500 soldiers the Korean government has done little reconstruction.  The current construction boom happening in Kurdistan that Totten mentions has nothing to do with the Zaytun unit in Iraq.  When I was in Iraq during OIF1 I had a chance to go to Kurdistan multiple times before the Zaytun unit arrived there.  The construction boom was just beginning then and Totten is now seeing the results.  The clinics and trade schools provided by the ROK Army are nice, but what are all those soldiers not involved with clinics and trade schools doing?  According to this ROK Army major, not a whole lot: [...] [...] My second issue with the deployment is that for having originally a unit of 3,500 soldiers the Korean government has done little reconstruction.  The current construction boom happening in Kurdistan that Totten mentions has nothing to do with the Zaytun unit in Iraq.  When I was in Iraq during OIF1 I had a chance to go to Kurdistan multiple times before the Zaytun unit arrived there.  The construction boom was just beginning then and Totten is now seeing the results.  The clinics and trade schools provided by the ROK Army are nice, but what are all those soldiers not involved with clinics and trade schools doing?  According to this ROK Army major, not a whole lot: [...]

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