By Here we go again:
A U.S. soldier was arrested Sunday for allegedly breaking into the home of an elderly Korean woman and assaulting her, local police said.
The 27-year-old staff sergeant, identified only by his initial W, is accused of trespassing in the home of a 67-year-old woman, identified only as A, in the city of Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, at around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The U.S. soldier was allegedly under the influence of alcohol, a police spokesman said. [Yonhap News]
It will be interesting to see where this incident happened in Uijongbu. This guy may have been wandering around drunk in Stanleyville and staggered into the elderly lady’s home there. In the past four years 2nd Infantry Division soldiers have now assaulted 3 grandmas due to being drunk.
5:23 am on July 17th, 2011 1
Yes, but at least this time the drunk purp. didn’t get his perv on.
5:34 am on July 17th, 2011 2
What is it with GI’s assualting grandma’s?
6:29 am on July 17th, 2011 3
Soju. I can’t explain it any other way. I don’t remember this happening during the 80′s or 90′s. It may have, but WE seemed to have a problem with Roof tops and falling off them. So perhaps it is the new youth.
6:55 am on July 17th, 2011 4
I think it’s because there were less elderly people per capita, not that your generation was somehow less prone to assault the elderly.
7:01 am on July 17th, 2011 5
Q: What does a 2ID soldier’s diick smell like?
A: Depends.
Seriously, the answer is quite simple.
There is no pusssy.
Average Korean girls are not interested in GIs. Queens for a Year are either unavailable or, in some cases, less attractive than a Korean grandma. A real girlfriend is almost impossible. Cheap and easy prostitution is a career-ender.
The only thing going is the juicy racket… which is designed to take all the money with a minimum supply of pusssy.
So… you have frustrated guys… with no real hope of getting any. And, to a young guy, a year without is an eternity.
In the middle east, powerless and frustrated guys become suicide bombers… or goat raapers.
In 2ID, most guys just suck it up… but the sample population is large enough that there is sometimes a guy crazy enough to go after granny… at least after alcohol is added to the equation.
Poor leadership is likely what differentiates 2ID from the rest of USFK.
I would propose that there are additional incidents, primarily with younger women, which are NOT reported.
USFK needs to encourage GIs to party in their villes where this kind of thing seldom happens… or, at least, doesn’t land on the front page when it does.
8:32 am on July 17th, 2011 6
The dregs of society have leaped into our Army. When the well you draw from is contaminated what do you expect? People don’t join the service for the same reasons they did back in the 80s. Lower the bar and look what happens. I say crucify him on the tree of woe. I hope he serves time in a Korean prison without SOFA benefits.
9:33 am on July 17th, 2011 7
Jeff: What are you going to do next, talk about how you carried an M-16 in Vietnam and criticize me for listening to twisted sister? OH wait… You’ve turned into that guy in the video!! How does it feel to be OLD?
10:58 am on July 17th, 2011 8
Jeff: The Army hasn’t changed much. There have always been a few idiots to ruin it for the rest of the service. I know, I was in back in the 80′s and 90′s.
12:37 pm on July 17th, 2011 9
Not intended as sock puppetry…
1:32 pm on July 17th, 2011 10
Crom does not approve.
1:45 pm on July 17th, 2011 11
Time to salt-peter the rations up there in 2ID.
5:13 pm on July 17th, 2011 12
Wait, isn’t being drunk off your fourth point of contact a valid defense to criminal activity in Korea?
5:39 pm on July 17th, 2011 13
@5
nailed it!
6:39 pm on July 17th, 2011 14
#5 Concur. The Koreans in the ville knew how to deal with these issues without press coverage. They do not want to make issues of things like this. The ville policed itself AND kept USFK out of the negative limelight. Over the years, USFK has effectively destroyed the villes and the valuable services AND protection they provided both to the individual soldier AND the US military and government as a whole.
That said: Dumbasses will be dumbasses. It worked better when they were kept within an area where they could be controlled and everyone, at least nominally, was on “our” side.
Anyone notice this happened at 21:30???
/The tighter you squeeze, the more slips through your fingers.
7:43 pm on July 17th, 2011 15
2ID juicies are truly boondoggles,
but the thought of a granny just boggles.
When chasing the skirts,
are they simply perverts?
Or do they have really good beer goggles?
8:21 pm on July 17th, 2011 16
Meanwhile:
The Uijeongbu Police Station in Gyeonggi-do is investigating after apprehending 25-year-old Mr. A on July 11 on charges of sexually assaulting a female member of the US military.
According to police, at approximately 3am on July 11, Mr. A sexually assaulted 18-year-old Ms. B, a private in the 2nd infantry division, in the 3rd basement level of a building in Uijeongbu.
The police investigation found that Mr. A was drinking in a nightclub for Koreans on the second basement level, then followed Pvt. B when she went to the bathroom and sexually assaulted her.
Mr. A was recorded on camera with Pvt. B by 20-year-old Pvt. C, a female colleague of Pvt. B.
Police plan to apply for an arrest warrant for Mr. A when their investigation is complete.
http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/07/11/2011071101816.html?news_Head1
2011.07.11 18:04
경기도 의정부경찰서는 11일 美 여군을 성폭행한 혐의(성폭력특별법 위반)로 A(25)씨를 붙잡아 조사중이다.
경찰에 따르면 A씨는 지난 10일 오전 3시께 경기도 의정부시내 한 건물 지하 3층에서 미2사단 소속 B(18.여) 이병을 성폭행한 혐의를 받고 있다.
경찰 조사결과 A씨는 같은 건물 지하 2층 내국인 출입이 가능한 클럽에서 술을 마시던중 화장실에 가는 B 이병을 뒤따라가 성폭행한 것으로 드러났다.
A씨는 B 이병과 함께 온 동료 C(20.여) 이병의 카메라에 찍혀 검거됐다.
경찰은 A씨에 대한 수사가 마무리되는 대로 구속영장을 신청할 계획이다.
9:46 pm on July 17th, 2011 17
This happened because of the elections next year, right?
9:53 pm on July 17th, 2011 18
#17. Dammit. Perfect timing…
9:57 pm on July 17th, 2011 19
Leon LaPorte, thanks for that news story. At some point, I want to write a comprehensive post on such assaults lately. They do happen, and yes, this was obviously reported in the Korean media, but these stories affect public perceptions far less. I’d like to see some of the women’s groups get behind the victim a bit more (not sure how much, if any, they already do), but them probably being chinboistas, they wouldn’t care. If you asked them about sexual assaults on USFK personnel by Korean perps they might respond, “Does that even happen?“
10:22 pm on July 17th, 2011 20
17 – Kushibo, we already have one Tom. Quick hitting comments serve little purpose than help him drag down the quality of the forum – which has gotten pretty low over the past year or so…
11:12 pm on July 17th, 2011 21
Just tryin’ to do my part!
1:02 am on July 18th, 2011 22
usinkorea, are you equating the quality, level, or purpose of my comments with Tom’s? If so, shame on you.
In a very subtle and succinct way, I chose to take a dig at a common meme in English-language k-blogs, including this one, that the Korean media reports these stories in order to whip up anti-American sentiment just in time for elections 17 months from now — a notion that utterly ignores the actual driver of these news items: that someone is actually committing the crimes that are getting reported.
2:34 am on July 18th, 2011 23
22. Gotta give you that one. The very idea that it is to effect the election cycle 17 MONTHS out is ludicrous. Within 3 months, when the media does seem to kick it into overdrive, is another matter.
Of course you are right; some numskull has to actually commit the crimes or the media is stuck with recycling old stuff or inventing stats and such.
5:14 am on July 18th, 2011 24
Kushibo,the constant chemical dumping stories and the “US GI’s are destroying Itaewon” stories are being promoted by some who want to raise anti-Americanism for the upcoming elections. As for one crime committed by a drunken idiot, how is that supposed to impact the elections? No one claimed that except you, in a sarcastic way.
7:22 am on July 18th, 2011 25
Leon: Whoa, awesome translation there.
8:06 am on July 18th, 2011 26
ArchieB wrote:
Case in point, what you are describing is one part of the Agent Orange story, which had its origins in US military veteran claiming to have buried Agent Orange on Camp Carroll. Without that, no story. As I noted, in comment #5 of that link, once it’s out there the chinboistas will “run this up to the flagpole to see if it can rally the troops and see if this is ‘the one’ that will resonate with the wider Korean populace,” but the point remains that without the supply side, these stories wouldn’t even be a trickle.
It sort of reminds me of something Stephannie White quoted from her friend about the chinboista groups’ “success with the Shinchon Stabbing Incident,” and their desire to “provoke” some more in Hongdae. I noted that they “provoked” the GIs to go to Shinchon which is off limits. They “provoked” the guy to bring a knife with him when he went out drinking. And then they “provoked” him to hold it to someone’s neck.
That’s some mighty skilled provokin’.
Again, while the chinboista groups may provide the constant heat and the media the occasional oxygen, someone’s providing the fuel itself.
Only ‘cuz I beat you to it.
3:04 pm on July 18th, 2011 27
Kangaji, hardly, 1982-2007 I finished basic training on my 19th birthday. I WANNA ROCK!
6:12 pm on July 18th, 2011 28
Well, 25 years of service definitely changes my view of your opinion. Seriously, what happened between 1982-2007 to the pool of recruits?
4:14 pm on July 19th, 2011 29
Sooo glad I was there in ’68-’70. During the 25 months I spent at Casey, I NEVER heard of anything like that happening. But, having what was normally considered a good time wasn’t illegal then…