Posts Tagged With: ROK Military
Picture of the Day: Male Cadets Enter Korean Nursing School
» by GI Korea February 1st, 2012 at 1:08 pm » Comments (1)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="New male cadets attend a ceremony at the Armed Forces Nursing Academy in the central city of Daejeon on Jan. 30, 2012, to officially join the ...more »Picture of the Day: F-15K In Action
» by GI Korea December 13th, 2011 at 1:01 pm » Comments (5)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The South Korean Air Force conducted a drill against enemy provocation on Wednesday, the one year anniversary of North Korea's shelling of Yeonpyeong Island. The drill ...more »US Against Lifting Missile Ban On South Korea
» by GI Korea December 7th, 2011 at 10:11 pm » Comments (5)
Here is a STRATFOR situation report that says that the US is against lifting its South Korea missile ban because of fears of angering China: Washington opposes revising the guidelines that ...more »South Korea Continues Efforts To Change Missile Treaty With US
» by GI Korea December 5th, 2011 at 8:22 am » Comments (13)
South Korea is continuing their efforts to renegotiate a treaty with the US that limits their ballistic missile capabilities: Korea is pushing to revise a bilateral pact with the United States ...more »How Will A Change In the South Korean Government Effect the ROK Military?
» by GI Korea November 29th, 2011 at 8:47 am » Comments (32)
It will be interesting to see if the ROK military will continue to train rigorously to deter North Korean naval aggression after a change in government next year that will ...more »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 »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 »





