This actually isn’t to bad of an idea to be training soldiers stationed in the 2nd Infantry Division on:

The 2nd Infantry Division’s 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team essentially went back in time Friday for an exercise more reminiscent of the buildup to the Korean War than anything going on today in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Maj. Brad Nadig said the day’s task of locating and engaging small groups of “enemy” soldiers — “to see and not be seen” — had similarities to the 1950 border skirmishes in the region just before the start of that war.

“For this fight … they’re not out looking for tanks and other vehicles,” Maj. Reed Erickson said. “It’s a hard mission to find these small teams of enemy forces.”

About 800 troops participated in the week’s Warrior Focus exercises at several locations in northern South Korea, including camps Casey and Hovey, and in Friday’s high-tech game of cat and mouse at the Korea Training Center, near Yongpyong, about 20 miles northeast of Camp Casey.  [Stars & Stripes]

What they should be emphasizing to the soldiers though is not the pre-Korean War period, but instead the DMZ War period in the late 60’s.  I have featured a number of these conflicts from the DMZ War here on the ROK Drop to include by far the largest and most provocative the Blue House Raid.

I have always felt that if the North Koreans felt like they needed to respond to lets say their missile site being bombed they would retaliate by infiltrating small teams to ambush soldiers on the DMZ or launch terrorist attacks within South Korea.  In my opinion every leader in the 2nd Infantry Division would do well to Daniel Bolger’s, Scenes from An Unfinished War: Low Intensity Conflict in Korea, if they are looking for ideas on what soldiers stationed in 2ID should be training for.