» by GI Korea March 14th, 2012 at 8:20 pm » Comments (50)

I have been holding off commenting on the recent massacre of Afghan civilians by a US Army soldier to let things sort themselves out a bit.  Before commenting let me ...more »

» by GI Korea February 9th, 2012 at 9:38 pm » Comments (27)

For those that haven't seen this yet here is the latest bashing of the US Marine Corps by the media:  The Marine Corps on Thursday once again diddamage control after a photograph surfaced ...more »

» by GI Korea January 18th, 2012 at 8:26 am » Comments (15)

Get ready for more righteous outrage and calls for a war crime tribunal: Less than a week after Corps officials were forced to deal with an embarrassing video of Marines urinating ...more »

» by GI Korea January 14th, 2012 at 10:08 pm » Comments (60)

I have to agree with Allen West here for the most part on how to punish these Marines depending on the facts of the Marine investigation: Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a ...more »

» by GI Korea January 9th, 2012 at 3:33 am » Comments (19)

Here is another example of failed leadership: Asian-American advocates and the family of a Chinese-American Army private believed to have committed suicide in Afghanistan after alleged hazing by his fellow soldiers called Thursday for the eight ...more »

» by GI Korea November 17th, 2011 at 1:08 pm » Comments (13)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="Capt. Heo Geol kisses his daughter goodbye during a ceremony in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Nov. 17, 2011, to send a 350-strong contingent to Afghanistan. ...more »

» by GI Korea September 6th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (8)

[flickr id="6116426648" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] This is a picture I took of a Korean bus at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan.  For those that don't know there are many vehicles ...more »

» by GI Korea July 21st, 2011 at 9:13 am » Comments (3)

Here is someone very deserving to be recognized with the Medal of Honor: A Marine who braved intense enemy gunfire in Afghanistan to recover the bodies of four fallen comrades will ...more »

» by GI Korea July 13th, 2011 at 12:58 pm » Comments (9)

[flickr id="5932974391" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] This is a picture I took at a bazaar outside of Kandahar AFB in Afghanistan.  Talking to the merchant from what I could understand ...more »

» by GI Korea July 5th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (9)

[flickr id="5904831887" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] This is a picture of a Statue of Freedom cake on display in a DFAC in southern Afghanistan last year for the 4th of ...more »