If you like finding obscure connections and following Alice down the rabbit hole, this may interest you. I was reading at Mudflats, an Alaskan anti-Palin blog. They had an article about the start of the trial of Senator Ted Stevens (R, Alaska) where I came across this paragraph

Also on the witness list are a Fairbanks strip club manager, and the underaged ‘coke-for-sex’ former mistress of key prosecution witness, former CEO of Veco, Bill Allen. And there are all kinds of accusations about paperwork that the newly sold and renamed Veco Corp. (now CH2M Hill) refuses to turn over to the defense.

CH2M Hill. Remember them — the company that has lead on the Camp Humphrey's relocation. There is no implication that this new company is tainted by it's prior boss, other than withholding documents, but it will probably still bring unwelcome attention.

Here are the USMC assets that will relocate from Guam…NOT 31st MEU, but III MEF Headquarters:

USMC III MEF Cmd Element

Ground Combat Element

Aviation Combat Element

Combat Service Support

Plus:Transient Units Visiting USMC & Allied Forces

(New ?10,000 AD/ 9000 Dep)

These are mainly headquarters elements, plus one GCE, thus leaving the majority of GCE forward deployed in Okinawa.

The Acheson LINE is actually the defense perimeter promulgated by Douglas MacArthur in Mar 1949. It ran from the Philippines through the Ryukyu Archipelago, including Okinawa — then through Japan and the Aleutian Island chain to Alaska. Acheson's SPEECH in Jan 1950 just formalized the line from his position as Secretary of State. As I said before Japan and the Phillipines were the MUST defend nations in Asia for the US — and were on the US side of the line. However, Korea was on the outside of the line — and from the statements of MacArthur was NOT an area that was essential to American national interests. The Occupation forces formally left the ROK in 1949 and did NOT want to return.

However, I have to take back my words in my previous post that the Chinese approved the invasion first. Supposedly Soviet spies in Britain and US were informed of the limitations of US atomic bomb stockpiles and defense program cuts. This led Stalin to conclude that the Truman administration would not intervene in Korea. The People's Republic of China (PRC) was reluctant to support the invasion until being told that by Kim Il-sung that Josef Stalin had approved the action. Though I have reservations that Stalin approved it first because Mao Tse-tung visited Russia for two months (Dec 49-Jan 50) and the 30-year alliance treaty was signed in Feb 1950. I have read books that state the Chinese were the first to approve Kim Il-sung's reunification plans, but I defer to the 1990s archived materials that seem to show that my assumptions were wrong.

Regardless, on 25 June 1950, the DPRK invaded South Korea because the DPRK, Russia and China did NOT believe that the US would intervene in Korea — based upon the existence of the Acheson LINE that stated that South Korea was NOT an important nation to US national interests.

The local news seems to be ahead of any USFK news releases. USFK stood firm on the 2006 move date until around 200?; while the local news was reporting a delay a couple of years earlier. USFK should apply Army Values to its PA program. Fool me once shame on you – ……!