A participant frowns during training in the 2015 Marine Corps Winter Camp at Dogu Beach in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province on Wednesday. [KBS Global]
Picture of the Day: ROK Marine Corps Camp
| January 30, 2015
Tag: ROK Marines
Picture of the Day: US Marines Train In Pohang
| December 27, 2014
South Korean and U.S. Marines hold a joint firing drill in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, on Dec. 23, 2014. (Photo courtesy of First Marine Division) (Yonhap)
ROK Marine Dead After Grenade Training Accident
| September 18, 2014
This is a horrible accident that happened in Pohang that appears to have been caused by a faulty grenade:
One Marine Corps recruit was killed and another recruit and an instructor were wounded Tuesday when a hand grenade exploded during a training session in this southeastern port city, military sources said.
The accident took place at around 10:20 a.m. at the drill camp of the South Korean Marine Corps when a hand grenade, clutched by a 19-year-old recruit, suddenly exploded.
The explosion severed the recruit’s hand and he was rushed to a nearby hospital but was later pronounced dead there.
Shrapnel from the explosion wounded the other recruit and the instructor, who remain hospitalized in stable condition, according to the sources.
The military immediately said there were no procedural problems in the grenade drill. The moment the military instructor ordered trainees to “fling,” the grenade blew up, it said. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link.
Details Released About ROK Marine Killing
| December 22, 2007
More details from the murder of a ROK Marine on Ganghwa Island that was captured over a week ago, have now been released:
The man who killed a marine and stole weapons plotted the crime in detail, having surveyed of the crime scene two weeks in advance, according to the military police.
The suspect Cho Yeong-guk, 35, was handed over to the military prosecution.
Cho was arrested last week for killing a marine, injuring another in Ganghwa, Gyeonggi Province, on Dec. 6, and stealing a rifle, ammunition and a hand grenade from them. The metal work major fled to his studio in Hwaseong, left the weapons there and burned the car he used in the crime in a nearby rice field.
He later abandoned the weapons under a bridge in South Jeolla Province, and left a letter describing their location in a postbox in Busan. Police identified him from fingerprints on the letter.
When caught, Cho said he committed the crime on impulse due to depression, but the military police said this was false. He later said that after he was dumped in September by a girl he had dated for 10 years, he decided to destroy himself by committing a serious crime as revenge to give her feelings of guilt. [Korea Times]
The rest of the article goes on to explain how he planned in detail the operation to steal the weapons. I speculated he either did because he was a wacky leftist trying to cause trouble before the election or he went nuts because of girlfriend issues and it appears girlfriend issues is what caused it.
