It is finally happening which is amazing considering how many years we have been hearing that this was going to happen.
A view from the roof of the future 2nd Infantry Division headquarters at Camp Humphreys on June 5, 2016. The Army is moving most of its forces, including the headquarters for U.S. Forces Korea, the 8th Army and the 2nd Infantry Division, to the expanded garrison south of Seoul.
U.S. forces in South Korea are finally starting to move to their new headquarters south of Seoul, although the much-delayed expansion of Camp Humphreys won’t be finished for several years.
First up is the Fort Hood, Texas-based 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, which is packing up and redeploying south this week from the mountainous area near the border with North Korea.
Soldiers loaded Abrams tanks and other armored vehicles on flat rail cars Thursday, taking advantage of a new railhead at Humphreys and using late-night convoys to avoid worsening Seoul’s tangled traffic. One whistled the theme song from “M*A*S*H,” a long-running TV series about the Korean War that was set in the area. A separate train was carrying soldiers to Humphreys along with the vehicles so they could jump out to fight if needed.
Several units, including the 304th Signal Battalion and military police, have already redeployed to Camp Humphreys — which will be spread over more than 3,500 acres near the port city of Pyeongtaek.
But the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, will be the vanguard of the historic move by the 2nd Infantry Division, which has been stationed near the world’s most heavily militarized border for decades. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read the rest at the link. Just think this was supposed to be completed back in 2008. According to the article USFK officials have declined to give an end date of when the move will be complete and instead call it conditions based.
“Holland said 75 percent of the programmed dollars have been given to contractors. South Korea is funding most of the massive construction project.”
If Trump gets elected and the US pulls out the troops from Korea, all this money South Korea spent would be down the toilet, wouldn’t it?
ChickenHead
8 years ago
Trump likely won’t pull troops out of Korea.
Korea knows their true value. Trump will know their true value.
He will demand a better deal and Korea will pay due to the realities of economics.
…and if they don’t due to pride… well… pull them out and tell Cheap Choi to go pound ricecake.
guitard
8 years ago
I was up in 2ID land last weekend. I didn’t go into the ville (club) area of TDC, so I can’t say what that’s like, but I did drive around Tokori (outside Camp Hovey) a bit and it was shockingly dead for a Saturday evening. I literally didn’t see a single GI out and about on the streets.
“Holland said 75 percent of the programmed dollars have been given to contractors. South Korea is funding most of the massive construction project.”
If Trump gets elected and the US pulls out the troops from Korea, all this money South Korea spent would be down the toilet, wouldn’t it?
Trump likely won’t pull troops out of Korea.
Korea knows their true value. Trump will know their true value.
He will demand a better deal and Korea will pay due to the realities of economics.
…and if they don’t due to pride… well… pull them out and tell Cheap Choi to go pound ricecake.
I was up in 2ID land last weekend. I didn’t go into the ville (club) area of TDC, so I can’t say what that’s like, but I did drive around Tokori (outside Camp Hovey) a bit and it was shockingly dead for a Saturday evening. I literally didn’t see a single GI out and about on the streets.
@Guitard it sounds like the beginning of the end for many of the clubs in the TDC/Toekgeo-ri area.