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February 21st, 2008 at 5:47 am

Osan Base Employees Complain They Were Beaten

Two Osan base employees have complained to Oh My News that two USFK security personnel beat them.  Sounds like an exaggerated story to me and I will wait for a USFK response before commenting.

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  • Chopsticks
    10:03 am on February 21st, 2008 1

    FYI, the Black Cat squadron is the nick name of the 5th Recon Squadron at Osan Air Base. The squadron flies the U2 spy plane. Anything that involves the U2 means top secret missions and high security. It doesn’t matter who you are, if you’re walking near the aircraft without proper authorization, prepare to be cuffed and interrogated.

  • GI Korea
    10:51 am on February 21st, 2008 2

    Chopsticks, that is probably what happened that these two were wandering around an area they shouldn’t have been and were arrested and cuffed. However, as we have seen with the 2000 Water Dumping Scandal if a Korean employee has an axe to grind they turn to the Korean internet sites to manufacture a narrative of big, bad USFK in order to get back at someone.

  • Osan Officials Deny Abuse Claims of Base Workers
    11:19 am on February 23rd, 2008 3

    [...] Like I said before, I was going to wait until USFK provided the other side of the story before commenting on the allegations from two Osan AB employees that they were abused by two Air Force security personnel.  Sure enough the other side of the story was far different from the one presented by the two employees and Oh My News: [...]

 

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