8th Army Commander Calls Camp Humphreys Expansion 80% Complete

Here is an update on the Camp Humphreys expansion project:

Originally a small fighter base during the Korean War, Camp Humphreys has transformed into the peninsula’s largest military installation.

Aerial snapshots taken Wednesday show a transformation 8th Army commander Lt. Gen. Thomas Vandal calls 80 percent done.

Barracks and training ranges can be seen sprawling along the banks of Anseong River to the north as family housing and schools cut into vast rice paddies to the south.

Four-lane boulevards bisect block after block of new buildings. The base looks more like the massive U.S. installations of Fort Bliss and Fort Hood in Texas than it does the old Korean War-era camps filled with Quonset huts north of the Han River.

However, the images also show sore spots for the $10.7 billion project aimed to fulfill a 2004 agreement between Seoul and Washington to move the bulk of U.S. forces 40 miles south of Seoul.  [Stars & Stripes]

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
6 years ago

Sure, but the first heavy rain the brand new 8th Army hq building roof leaked so badly the first floor flooded. Hope they never have a typhoon, place is built on a tidal flat….

1sgtret
1sgtret
6 years ago

They just don’t want to admit that this is another blunder by 8th Imperial Army and USFK. If we start counting back to how long it took them to build 80%, we could probably calculate how long the remaining 20% will take. But the propaganda machine continues to spit out the good news. The Korean contractors are laughing all the way to the bank.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
6 years ago

Not denying that someone is getting rich off of this but many of the construction delays were due to Korean companies that started the work went bankrupt.

Mcgeehee
Mcgeehee
6 years ago

The article’s photograph, lower left, square area surrounded by a blue tarp. Anyone know what that is? Looks to be purposely preserved…something.

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

Nice golf course among the rice paddies.

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
6 years ago

@McGeehee
Looks like a Korean graveyard to me. I zoomed in as far as I could, and it looks like the ones I saw up in Uijeongbu.

Can anybody in the area confirm or clarify?

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