Comments on: A Profile of USFK Camps in Uijongbu

By: Steve Dreher

Steve Dreher — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:50:07 +0000

I just found this annotated map of the Uijongbu area, camps and places of interest identified by somebody who seems to have been there in the late 60s:

http://wikimapia.org/8204315/Camp-Essayons

There’s a similar one for Seoul at

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=37.5765896&lon=126.9638067&z=18&l=0&m=s&v=9

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:18:26 +0000

Steve thanks for visiting the site. At the top of the posting is a Google Earth map that depicts where the camps are located in Uijongbu.

If you have Google Earth installed you can zoom in even further because they do have good imagery of all the camps in Uijongbu.

By: Steve Dreher

Steve Dreher — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:02:34 +0000

When I saw ROK Drop’s picture of Camp Kyle I though it was science fiction, like those “what life will be like in the 21st Century” things you used to see in Popular Science. I looked for those little airplanes flying around that we were all supposed to be using instead of cars.

I still wish there was a MAP showing the locations of the various camps around Uijongbu. The photos are nice but I just can’t remember where exactly the places were. There is a website with a map, but it only shows places north of Uijongbu.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:13:15 +0000

Steve, fantastic color pictures of 1960’s Korea. I especially liked the ones of Uijongbu. The difference between the city now and then is just incredible.

By: Steve Dreher

Steve Dreher — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:16:10 +0000

I was with 38 Ord (123d Signal, actually) at Kumo-ri (Camp Kyle) 1965-66, and am posting old pictures of the area at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88857036@N00/page1/

Feast your eyes on life there in the previous century.

Anybody know what Camp Sears was called before it became Camp Sears It was 13th QM as I recall , then became some transportation outift when everything got changed 31 Dec 65.

By: steve oconnell

steve oconnell — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:23:28 +0000

stationed at camp snow 70-71 honest john missle company. anyone remember that camp……what about the “turkey farm” i imagine much has changed in 40 years. would love to revisit the area. not sure i could handle the culture shock…

By: Murrell

Murrell — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:33:54 +0000

I was stationed here in 1958/1959. WOWWWW Those days he ville was almost exclusively mud huts, surrounded by walls. I was with the 51st Signal, and we had four companies on the MSR (military for two lane dirt trail) that went west from the ville across the mountains and connected to the road that went to Check Point Charley (1st Cav) to the north and south into Seoul. The tallest building then was a meat market at the junction of the MSR from Seoul to CRC, where the west branch that we were on joined it. That building was two stories high. To the south there was an Atomic Cannon detachment and to the east there were engineers and a flight line. Further east was the 8th Infantry (? bent beer can division, now inactive) and north of the was Camp Santa Barbara, which was home to 1st Corps artillery. A little north of there was a MI detachment that had a listening post. Another MSR ran from Camp Santa Barbara bacj to the 1st Cav area.
One memory was in the fall when papason made macgu (Korean rice wine, however that is spelled) after the rice crop was in, and the kimchi was in earthen pots buried to ferment. papason had to get his pig to Seoul to get money for the next year. Also no pick up trucks and no refrigeration. Enterprising as they were, they fed the hogs the lees of the rice after the fermentation was complete and the wine bottled. Old mister pig would gobble that up anmd eventually pass out from intoxication from the alcohol in the lees. Papason would then tie him on the back of his bicycle and pedal like hell for Seoul. He sure didn’t want mister pig wakening with a hangover before he got him to the market in Seoul. So there they went with papason pedaling and mister pig strapped on the back, feet in the air enjoying his alcoholic stupor. Yes things have indeed changed.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:43:37 +0000

Ralph:
Kumo-ri became Camp Kyle in the late 60s. Camp Kyle closed in Oct 2005.

Kumo-ri
http://www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/kumo-ri%20gate.jpg

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:46:02 +0000

I was stationed at a place called Kumo-Ri ordnance center in 1960 and part of 61. They must have changed the name of this camp because I can’t find any mention of it now. There were to ordnance companies located there

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:57:48 +0000

Glen Bellou:
I was in D Company 4th Maint Bn in 69-70. We were at Stanley, and we had a Detachment at Cp St Barbara. While I was there, we took over the mission of the 335th at Cp McIntyre when the 335th Maint was deactivated some time in early 1970 best I remember.

This was during the early phase of the big troop reduction that took place in 1970-71.

Here are some pictures of Camp McIntyre.

http://qsl.net/wd4ngb/cpmcintyre.htm

If anyone has any pictures to add to it, please email them to me at the address on the page.