It is always good to see a joint training exercise between US and Korean Soldiers:
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Seong Kim proudly watched his Soldiers executing the Patriot missile reload drill.
Through well rehearsed hand signals and simple voice commands, the experienced U.S. crew proficiently removed one Patriot missile can off the launcher system and quickly replaced it with another utilizing their Guided Missile Transporter.
Seong Kim turned to his Republic of Korea counterpart 2nd Lt. Eugene Kim, smiled and said, “This is how we do it.”
The two platoon leaders from United States and Republic of Korea were part of an exchange program initiated by the 6th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade to assist its Suwon Air Base sister unit, the Republic of Korea Air Force 553rd Patriot Fire Unit.
The program is usually conducted at battery level, focusing on the sharing of air defense tactics, techniques and procedures. [USFK Website]
You can read more at the link, but readers may remember that the ROK Army bought used PATRIOT PAC-2 missiles from the Germans that were fielded in 2008 to bolster Korea’s missile defense capabilities.








11:32 am on February 17th, 2011 1
I'd like to as a question….
I recently read that NATO needs 740 more trainers for Afghanistan for their security forces….
All these years in Afghanistan we /NATO haven't been training AFGHANI trainers?
I am perplexed////
11:34 pm on February 17th, 2011 2
A ROK 2LT named Eugene?