Koreas
Career Day at South Korea fighter base fuels elementary interest in aviation
Curious, career-minded fourth- and fifth graders spent a recent afternoon collecting information from aviation professionals at the annual Career Day on this U.S. installation south of Seoul.
In spare time, GIs in South Korea hit the books, not the bars
When Spc. Brian Gannuscio sees other soldiers heading downrange to spend their free time and money at bars, he thinks about how much they are missing.
U.S. military bases in Korea begin cleanup after massive rainstorm
As the death toll continued to rise from this week’s massive rainstorm in South Korea, the U.S. military on Friday was trying to get a handle on just how extensive the storm’s impact had been on its three bases in Dongducheon.
Volunteers building a home for 77 orphans
The sound of hammers and saws and the smell of paint and plaster fill the air as men of the 6146th Air Force Advisory Group work to build a permanent home, for 77 children of the Sungnam Orphanage.
Isolated GIs guard Korea
From cold, remote mountain tops reaching 4,000 feet above the Demilitarized Zone to the sharp, jagged hills below Kunsan, a U.S. Army brigade is standing guard over Korea.
U.S. soldier at DMZ honored 18 years after gunfight
Master Sgt. Jeff Holbrook stood at attention Thursday in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone between the Koreas, an area he describes as a disarmingly beautiful place that can quickly turn ugly with violence.
Heroic Army veteran revisits ROK battlefield
Forty-seven years after leading his company on one of the only fixed-bayonet charges in modern U.S, warfare, retired Army Col. Lewis Millett returned to Korea this week to revisit old battlefields and remember his fallen comrades.