Misleading Headline

This headline in the Chosun today I find to be misleading:

Crisis Time US Troop Reinforcements Lack Readiness

The title is just preposterous to begin with because there is not a more highly trained and ready force in the world right now than the US Army with the amount of experienced hard combat veterans in the force now.  Secondly the article goes on to say that two of the four brigades from the US military that would respond to a crisis on the Korean peninsula do not have equipment because they left it all in Iraq:

The Times quoted division commander Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, as forecasting what might happen in a sudden call to combat, “I’m confident two of the four brigade combat teams would say, ‘O.K., let’s go,’ ” General Lynch said in an interview. “The Second and Fourth Brigades would say, ‘O.K., boss, but we’ve got no equipment. What are we going to use?’ So we’d have to figure out where we’re going to draw their equipment.”

Yes the two brigades do not have equipment, but that is why there are prepositioned stocks of equipment sitting in classified locations in Korea, so soldiers from the states can be quickly flown into Korea and use the prepositioned equipment to quickly become involved in combat operations in Korea.  If the soldiers in the US had to load their equipment on boats to respond to a crisis on the Korean peninsula; the war would be over before the boats ever arrived.

This is just another case of either sloppy reporting or sensationalism in the Korean media over the US troop control hand over issue.