By Here is a special Korea Finder that I am not even sure what the answer is. By request can anyone give the name of what this old USFK camp in the Western Corridor between Camp Gerry Owen and Camp Stanton is called?
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5:02 pm on January 15th, 2010 1
Hmm. Ok it is in “The Munsan Corridor” South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, Paju-si, Tanhyeon-myeon, Nakha-ri.
I don’t know if there is a way to get a verifiable answer here. This may have been an area other than a numbered or named camp. Then again, adjushi might have acquired the fence and/or the sign somewhere. I can say I worked at CP Edwards in 2000 time frame. I supported every camp from Howze to JSA which includes Garry Owen (aka Pelham) and Stanton (best chow hall). I recall no camp being there. Nor do I think I would describe this location as being “between” Stanton and Garry Owen.
So, this was an interesting exercise but I’m going to have to go with CP Custer, with a possible of Camp Paine, Camp Brown, TAC 33. Or several of many camp and installations which never had names.
Here is the most complete list of camps in the Western Corridor I have ever seen: http://rickinbham.tripod.com/KoreaMap.htm
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6:07 pm on January 15th, 2010 2
I believe that was CP Howze. The way it is layed out up the hill there reminds me of CP Howze, but is was not between CP Stanton and CP Gary Owen. It was south east of CP Stanton, I just don’t remember how far. I have not been there since 1985 when I was stationed at CP Stanton in the 2/61 ADA. We had to take a bus from CP Stanton to CP Howze in order to catch the bus to Seoul. I could be wrong…
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January 15th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Howze was the southern most camp of the Western Corridor. Definitely not Howze. This location is almost in the Imjin. North East of Munsan.
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7:07 pm on January 15th, 2010 3
It’s not Edwards, Stanton, Howze, Beard, RC4, Garry Owen…Only leaves Semper Fidelis (Ashworth) or Giant, I think…The only thing I could find about Camp Ashworth is that it was open from 1952/55…So, unless there’s some other camp around Paju that I don’t know of, my guess is this is Camp Giant.
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7:11 pm on January 15th, 2010 4
Could still be Ashworth, but I’d imagine the building would look a bit more decrepit…Then again, maybe they are still in use.
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7:43 pm on January 15th, 2010 5
But Camp Giant was so close to Garry Owen you could hardly tell were on started and the other stopped
Literally RIGHT down the road. This place is not in that area.
I’m not familiar with Ashworth but this is obviously a much newer Korean building. Only the fence seems to be “original”. I’m sure I’ve been by this place before but there was nothing of any significance there, other than the fence, to point to it as any type of installation. Speaking of the fence, it doesn’t look that old but it is hard to tell from a pic…
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9:58 pm on January 15th, 2010 6
Good one GI…
Leon,
Giant was closer to RC4 and Camp Pelham, Garry Owen was in Yong Ju gol before they went to Son Ju ri.
I was stationed at Edwards from 1986 to 1987, remember the ville across the MSR…Yong Ter ri.
I’m like you, I don’t recall any camps between Garry Owen and Stanton, but then it could be 4 Poppa 3 or 4 Poppa 1
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12:18 am on January 16th, 2010 7
I’m 90% sure it wasn’t a US base.
I’m going with ROK 9th Division, 101st Brigade, possibly 5003부대.
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2:44 pm on January 17th, 2010 8
I was at Cp Garry Owen from 75-77 and there was no compound between us and Stanton but there was a small facility that housed the KSA doing heater work. Pretty sure that is the photo we’re looking at.
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4:28 pm on January 17th, 2010 9
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10:07 pm on January 17th, 2010 10
There are several of the signs above around the fence. The entrance is around the fourth arrow in the first picture and there is another gate a little farther down. It had been occupied by the ROK Army but was closed and abandoned when I stopped by. It had a feel of being a base the U.S. had used before, those who have been at a lot of bases in Korea know what I mean by that. I spent time at most of the bases in the Western Corridor in the late 80’s early 90’s and don’t remember a base there during that time. I can’t see any reason those signs would be along the fence line unless the U.S. occupied or shared this base at some point and it seems the signs aren’t that old, at least not old enough to have faded.
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12:48 pm on January 18th, 2010 11
In that area, there was a ROK camp, and another compound we called the CIA camp, but that was closer to a stream.
Can you post a live link to that google map?
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January 18th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
This is pretty close: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=South+Korea,+Gyeonggi-do,+Paju-si,+Tanhyeon-myeon,+Nakha-ri.+&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nakha-ri,+Tanhyeon-myeon,+Paju-si,+Gyeonggi-do+413-843,+South+Korea&ll=37.84341,126.746092&spn=0.03084,0.055189&t=h&z=14
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4:29 pm on January 18th, 2010 12
ASP 512
This was the holding area for the immediate supply of ammo for 4/7 CAV
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January 19th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Lemmy I think your answer is right. You get the point.
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January 19th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
When was the photo taken, the ASP for the 4/7CAV was on Stanton in 1975?
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7:57 pm on January 19th, 2010 13
The Picture was taken over the the last Christmas Holiday, that is why I think it had to have been returned to the ROK within the last 10 years, the signs look like they are in good condition.
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5:55 am on January 20th, 2010 14
Could this be part of the ROK compound that was across the street from Camp Gary Owens in 1985/86? I remember one being there. I was stationed at Camp Stanton in 85/86 and made the trip to Yongjugol many times….. ? Wasn’t there another post to the east of Yongjugol as well? ROK post that is….
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January 20th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
There was indeed a ROK compound across the street from Garry Owen. I heard that it was a US Army compound at one time, I remember the remnants of a swimming pool that the ROK’s used to dispose of oil being visible from the street. After looking at the google earth view that Leon provided I don’t think the area is around Garry Owen or Stanton. It looks to be further north, in the 4 Poppa 1 area. I haven’t been to Korea in 23 years but have very fond memories and am amazed at some of the photos of the Yong Ju Gol area.
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