Comments on: 8th Army Headquarters to Remain In Korea

By: Su Nam Yun

Su Nam Yun — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:29:29 +0000

Those old generation including me who experienced such a bitter Korean War will know why we need to keep 8th Army Hqs in Seoul,and N.K regime will take advantage of the absence of US troops if US Hqs moves to Hawaii. While suicided Roh was in power, he always insisted nation's sovereignty, knowingly or unknowingly at the risk of pawning the country to Kim Jong Il.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:54:32 +0000

Looks like a bot is circulating through the K-blogs. The same message was posted at OFK. The message is not worth translating.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:15:33 +0000

金正日说：“反正都是死，与其饿死，不如战死！”

　　何健（我）说：“金胖子，您老是共产主义者，具有无比的奉献精神，与其国民饿死，不如您老一家都效仿卢武铉，也许您老的历史评价会有所提升。”[经典]

——摘自《何健语录》，欢迎转载，谢谢支持！

That's easy for you to say!

By: John

John — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:23:33 +0000

Well, it’s worse than the wasted work, Mark. Many organizations gave up positions because the mission responsibility was transferring to the MCP.

I lost two, and have been sucking it up, but I’m aware of some orgs that lost 60-70% of their mil/civ positions and so far big Army isn’t budging on bringing them back.

It is fair to call it a fiasco.

By: Morning Qualm

Morning Qualm — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:22:31 +0000

Minor point… EUSA will become EA…a field Army vice OCP. Still scheduled to go to the Hump. The big change is that the ASCC/Title X functions will go to USARPAC. That loss of ASCC designation to USARPAC does certainly mean some retooling of the EA wofkforce. Lot of functions would tend to migrate off-shore. So in a sense, the media has it right… the "8" in EA stays, but some functions head off pen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:53 +0000

　　金正日说：“反正都是死，与其饿死，不如战死！”

——摘自《何健语录》，欢迎转载，谢谢支持！

By: guitard

guitard — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:51:07 +0000

Unless you work at Yongsan and are privy to the discussions about this matter – I can see why some might think EUSA HQ might stay.

But you're absolutely right – EUSA along will just about everything else is going and very little is going to stay. And what is going to stay will have to fit on a couple of floors at the Dragon Hill – and that space is already spoken for.

Now…as for when it goes – that's another story. My guess is that it'll be sometime between 2018-2020.

By: Marcus Ambrose

Marcus Ambrose — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:01:24 +0000

John, you are correct. The EUSA HQs, formerly known as OCP-K, is on the KORCOM campus at USAG-H. Both are in progress.

By: Retired GI

Retired GI — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:33:17 +0000

I see that it is going to take a “natural disaster” IE 1991 philippines,
to get Korea to give up the americans.

By: Hamilton

Hamilton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:21:42 +0000

8th army is a three star billet, you have it confused with USFK.