By GI Korea on January 17th, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Picture of Day: ROK Army Female Cadets Head Out for Training

Cadets of Korea's first Women Reserve Officers' Training Corps leaves Sookmyung Women's University to join training at the Army Cadet Command in Seoul on Monday

Via Chosun Ilbo.

• Teadrinker
  5:53 am on January 17th, 2011 1

  …and in typical Korean media fashion, the photo is perved up by showing the cutest one in the forefront.

• Teadrinker
  5:54 am on January 17th, 2011 2

  …or rather, foreground.

• Glans
  6:47 am on January 17th, 2011 3

  Is that camouflage pattern fashionable in winter? Even their accessories are green.

• Tom Langley
  10:22 am on January 17th, 2011 4

  I wonder how many pounds of TA-50 that they are carrying? The two girls in the front are carrying one duffel bag, hilarious.

• Matt
  1:20 pm on January 17th, 2011 5

  In a similar thought to Tom's, I was wondering why the one on the left front is carrying her duffle like it's a heavy ass handbag?

• Soldier
  3:43 pm on January 17th, 2011 6

  Dibs!

• kmg365
  5:16 pm on January 17th, 2011 7

  ROK women in the military? Big deal. FYI, they've been serving alongside their male counterparts ever since 1948. The embarrassingly unjustified attention these Sookdae chicks are getting just b/c they're in the first women's ROTC outfit is disgraceful. Korean women have been getting commissions through OCS since the Korean War, the ROK service academies since 1998, and are serving in all ranks and branches (excluding Armor, Artillery and ADA) for decades. (Also, the reason they look so cute in their BDU's is b/c the Gender Equality Ministry many years ago forced the Defense Ministry to provide tailored utilities specifically cut for women — e.g., female BDU pants have a more flattering cut around the hips, and micro-sizes they offer are small enough to qualify for junior misses or girls' sizes back in the U.S.)

• Teadrinker
  6:41 pm on January 17th, 2011 8

  #7,

  Yup. One of my friend's daughter went to the Naval Academy here. We've lost contact a few years ago, but I imagine she's probably a commissioned officer by now.

• Glans
  8:10 pm on January 17th, 2011 9

  But is green camouflage in season?

• Jeff
  1:11 am on January 18th, 2011 10

  But is green camouflage in season?

  Probably not, since it's after Labor Day. They need to consult the gays before this really gets out of hand.

• Dragonfly
  4:51 am on January 18th, 2011 11

  Yes, woodland camo is sooo 1980's.

• Teadrinker
  6:46 am on January 18th, 2011 12

  And to think some of you guys freak about repealing DADT.

• Tom Langley
  7:52 am on January 18th, 2011 13

  Teadrinker #12, You might have a point if I could say to those ladies "OK gals the duty day is over, all of you join me in the showers, HOOAH!"

• Teadrinker
  9:14 pm on January 18th, 2011 14

  Tom, I wasn't referring to you but to Jeff and Dragonfly, apparently our two resident fashion consultants.

• ChickenHead
  10:49 pm on January 18th, 2011 15

  Green bag, green belt… black shoes.

  How gauche.

• Cho Soo In
  12:26 am on August 4th, 2011 16

  Im proud of you ladies it was an honer to bunk with ladies of such dicipline and duty. you didnt have to join in a county that feminises more then any were women no matter the race and were setting the pace no matter how much the men dont want us to.

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