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Picture of the Day: New ROK Military Uniforms
» by GI Korea October 4th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (82)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="550" caption="Soldiers in new uniforms stand alongside soldiers in old uniforms at a briefing at the Ministry of National Defense in Yongsan, central Seoul, yesterday. The first, ...more »ROK Army Reforms To Target Draft Dodgers
» by GI Korea August 23rd, 2011 at 3:13 am » Comments (6)
It is good to see that reforms are being made to go after draft dodgers who avoid their mandatory military service with the ROK Army: Those who have served jail time ...more »Korea Fields First Early Warning Aircraft
» by GI Korea August 2nd, 2011 at 5:11 pm » Comments (6)
It may not seem like it, but this is actually a pretty important acquisition by the ROK Air Force and one less capability that the US needs to provide to ...more »ROK Marines Criticized For Increase In Crime
» by GI Korea July 15th, 2011 at 5:00 pm » Comments (17)
Maybe SBS should be spending less time reporting on GI's in Itaewon and instead see what ROK Marines are up to in the villes they hang out in: Some 1,335 soldiers ...more »Picture of the Day: Nursing Training
» by GI Korea July 14th, 2011 at 12:57 pm » Comments (23)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Female students are taking part in a training program of the Armed Forces Nursing Academy in Daejeon on Monday."][/caption] Via KBS Global. more »South Korean Military Creates Non-Smoking Units
» by GI Korea July 6th, 2011 at 10:49 pm » Comments (30)
This is an unusual way to combat smoking by creating non-smoking units: The military has declared a war on smoking, unveiling an ambitious plan to lower its service members' smoking rate ...more »ROK Marine Goes On Shooting Rampage Killing 4 Fellow Marines
» by GI Korea July 5th, 2011 at 7:44 am » Comments (23)
Via JoeC in the comments section comes this story of a shooting rampage that left 4 ROK Marines dead: A Marine Corps corporal killed four soldiers and wounded another in a ...more »Concerns About Korean Military Health Care
» by GI Korea May 18th, 2011 at 2:53 am » Comments (28)
I never had any the ROK Army personnel I have worked with over the years complain about their health care but apparently there has been some recent issues with Korean ...more »South Korea Ends Military Exchange Ties With Taiwan, Sort Of….
» by GI Korea May 8th, 2011 at 6:05 pm » Comments (30)
Despite the headlines of South Korea severing military exchange ties to Taiwan it appears that this is not really the case. Rather it just more smoke and mirrors to ...more »ROK Army Deploys New MLRS On Yellow Sea Islands
» by GI Korea April 25th, 2011 at 6:23 pm » Comments (13)
If the North Koreans are in fact preparing for another provocation it appears that the ROK Army is at least ready to respond to it out on the Yellow Sea ...more »
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