Combined Forces Command to Relocate to Camp Humphreys this Month

This is pretty much the last thing that needed to move off of Yongsan Garrison:

A photo of Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, south of Seoul, where the Combined Forces Command headquarters will relocate by early next month. [YONHAP]
A photo of Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, south of Seoul, where the Combined Forces Command headquarters will relocate by early next month. [YONHAP]

The headquarters of the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC) will relocate to Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, this month, ending a four-decade presence in Seoul’s Yongsan District.    
   
The South Korean Defense Ministry said Tuesday that the relocation of the CFC’s headquarters is expected to wrap up by the end of the month.    
   
“Through the relocation, the CFC plans to establish an even stronger combined defense system based on a strengthened alliance spirit and operational efficiency in Pyeongtaek, the new cradle of the alliance,” the ministry said in a statement. (……)

Approximately 700 South Korean and U.S. personnel currently serving at the CFC’s Yongsan headquarters will begin moving to Camp Humphreys starting early this month, while the CFC plans to hold a ceremony in November marking the end of the command’s era in Yongsan.   

Joong Ang Ilbo

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
1 year ago

“the new cradle of the alliance”

Who is the bigot who writes this stuff?

Just hearing it makes me want to file an EO complaint.

In keeping with principles of equity and diversity may I suggest “the new crib of our homies¹”.

¹these are fully-inclusive non-binary gender-nonspecific homies

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