I worked for the UNC (specifically, the Military Armistice Commission discussed above) and had daily contact with the Swiss and Swedish NNSC officers. To categorize their presence as "largely symbolic" overstates their value quite generously. The only folks that even remotely thought they were relevant were the protocol officers that coordinated parking restrictions around Knight Field during their Honor Guard ceremonies as they arrived or departed their positions in theater.

Have you seen President Rhee's letter to MacArthur (the "July 195- Pusan Letter") which placed OPCON of all ROK forces "during the period of the continuation of the present state of hostilities" – the basis for creating the CFC in the first place.

Perhaps some will argue that the "present state of hostilities" no longer continue.

(Aside, Swiss, Swedish and Polish (when they're in town) members of the NNSC get ration cards for personal use, and the Swiss and Swedish dining facilities and officers' clubs are stocked via SSSC and the commissary. Not to mention living quarters for the delegation and their families on Yongsan. There were 13 KSC/KGS employees to support the 10 officers at the NNSC camps in PMJ.)

Caveat, of course: They paid for quite a bit of booze consumed by yours truly, and threw some outrageous parties when their generals and colonels weren't around.