Korean speaking surferos riding the wave into Gangneung
In April, acting on intelligence from U.S. authorities, ROK officials inspected a ship arriving from Mexico at a port in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, seizing nearly one ton of cocaine — the largest haul ever recorded by the Korea Customs Service.
In January, a 55-year-old Filipino Canadian was indicted for converting smuggled liquid cocaine into 61 kilograms of solid form — enough for an estimated 1.22 million doses — alongside two Colombians at a warehouse in Hoengseong, Gangwon Province.
By Park Ung, Korea Times
Published Aug 16, 2025 7:00 am KST
It is pretty crazy how Korea is becoming increasingly a destination for hard drugs. It is no where near as bad as the U.S., but is trending in the wrong direction.
GrayBlack
8 months ago
Did a field/patrol exercise. Multiple 3 to 5 hour patrols each day. 50 to 100 percent security all the time in the pb. To my left and right in the pb are females who spent most of their time not posting security. I end up doing most of it in my section and getting only a few hours of sleep every night for the entire exercise. They got full nights of rest. Get back, hear them complaining about how awful the experience was…
Gender integrated training has got to go.
Last edited 8 months ago by GrayBlack
setnaffa
8 months ago
@GrayBlack, “According to Polybius, a Roman chronicler, falling asleep while on duty was a serious offense for a Roman soldier. He was punished with the so-called fustuarium. This involved the tribune condemning the man by identifying him with the touch of a cudgel, then the rest of the troop beating him to death (usually) with clubs and stones”…
As I understand it, that was the subject of a great many motivational speeches by their equivalent of BSMs.
“In January 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order banning federal agencies from creating or promoting a central bank digital currency (CBDC), which was framed domestically as a populist rejection of financial surveillance and a reversal of his predecessor’s “digital dollar” efforts. But the move also served as a policy model for allies skeptical of CBDCs. South Korea became the first to adopt this blueprint by halting its ₩35 billion ($26 million) “Project Han River” CBDC pilot, which involved banks and large-scale payment infrastructure testing. The project faced resistance from banks citing high costs, limited profitability, and lack of consumer demand in a market already dominated by efficient private payment systems. Instead, Seoul shifted toward a regulated stablecoin system under the forthcoming Digital Asset Basic Act, which will allow banks—and eventually licensed non-bank entities—to issue won-pegged stablecoins. The Financial Services Commission will regulate reserves, redemption, and capital adequacy, while leaving product design and competition to the market. This mirrors the U.S. GENIUS Act approach, where the government sets rules but leaves issuance and innovation to the private sector, positioning stablecoins—not CBDCs—as the future of state-backed digital money.”
@GrayBlack, your PL and PSG should not have been putting up with people falling asleep on security. Sounds more like a leadership problem to me than a female one.
GrayBlack
8 months ago
They obviously can’t be held to the same physical or social standards as men, so is it any wonder why standards, in a system that preaches equality, end up falling for everyone?
Sure, that’s a “leadership” problem, but it’s also undeniable that women change the culture the more they are present. In the past you could discipline people by making then do a few pushups, or maybe even smoke them if they fucked up bad enough. No paperwork, they learn without career ramifications. These days a woman might see and get upset. Now you have a harrasment and bullying legal case. You could resort to paperwork, but now you risk getting swamped in administrative processes and not running the unit effectively.
I saw on PC try to give a negative couseling to a female for a minor issue she was clearly wrong, she refused to sign and the issue worked its way all the way up to to a Major. It took months to resolve. She ended up not punished.
I’ve seen barrack bunnies sleep their way through half the Plt, the ensueing social chaos, and only the men getting punished for that.
The examples are endless. Gender integration failed.
@GrayBlack, I will have to disagree with you for the most part. The military could not operate without women in it. It sounds like you had some poor leadership in your prior unit. I have known a few female Soldiers in the past who have tried to play the gender card to get out of trouble and it rarely works. The big things male officers and NCOs have to be careful of is always counsel with another Soldier present, preferably a female and do not touch other Soldiers without asking first. I saw a First Sergeant relieved for pushing a female Soldier over an obstacle on a confidence course by her butt without asking her first and she filed a complaint.
ChickenHead
8 months ago
“The military could not operate without women in it.”
If that is a true statement, it is the result of self-sabotaging social engineering rather than the reliance on some inate ability of women to wage warfare.
A better statement might be, “We have put ourselves in a position where the military could not operate without women in it and it is probably time we reevaluate what rolls are suited to their nature rather than trying to shoehorn women into positions and situations that thousands of years of warfare have shown to be best done by men without the distraction of women.”
Liz
8 months ago
Supreme Allied Commander of Europe wasn’t on the schools list when he left Korea (as a Captain), because the person who wrote his OPR didn’t say, specifically, “send this person to leadership school”. Though he was the top Captain at the base. (Mike was the top captain at Aviano and his said “send to school”, since his boss knew how to write an OPR)
He went through a lot of arsepain to get added to the schools list, and at the time Mike thought it was a little silly. Who cares about leadership school, really? But Grynch was successful, ultimately, and got on the list.
If not for that, he probably wouldn’t have even made O7.
Weird to think about. Not as surreal as seeing his name in the news as the person in the middle of the Ukraine/Russia negotations now.
Korean speaking surferos riding the wave into Gangneung
In April, acting on intelligence from U.S. authorities, ROK officials inspected a ship arriving from Mexico at a port in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, seizing nearly one ton of cocaine — the largest haul ever recorded by the Korea Customs Service.
In January, a 55-year-old Filipino Canadian was indicted for converting smuggled liquid cocaine into 61 kilograms of solid form — enough for an estimated 1.22 million doses — alongside two Colombians at a warehouse in Hoengseong, Gangwon Province.
By Park Ung, Korea Times
Published Aug 16, 2025 7:00 am KST
It is pretty crazy how Korea is becoming increasingly a destination for hard drugs. It is no where near as bad as the U.S., but is trending in the wrong direction.
Did a field/patrol exercise. Multiple 3 to 5 hour patrols each day. 50 to 100 percent security all the time in the pb. To my left and right in the pb are females who spent most of their time not posting security. I end up doing most of it in my section and getting only a few hours of sleep every night for the entire exercise. They got full nights of rest. Get back, hear them complaining about how awful the experience was…
Gender integrated training has got to go.
@GrayBlack, “According to Polybius, a Roman chronicler, falling asleep while on duty was a serious offense for a Roman soldier. He was punished with the so-called fustuarium. This involved the tribune condemning the man by identifying him with the touch of a cudgel, then the rest of the troop beating him to death (usually) with clubs and stones”…
As I understand it, that was the subject of a great many motivational speeches by their equivalent of BSMs.
https://en.namu.wiki/w/10%EB%B6%84%EC%9D%98%201%ED%98%95
“In January 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order banning federal agencies from creating or promoting a central bank digital currency (CBDC), which was framed domestically as a populist rejection of financial surveillance and a reversal of his predecessor’s “digital dollar” efforts. But the move also served as a policy model for allies skeptical of CBDCs. South Korea became the first to adopt this blueprint by halting its ₩35 billion ($26 million) “Project Han River” CBDC pilot, which involved banks and large-scale payment infrastructure testing. The project faced resistance from banks citing high costs, limited profitability, and lack of consumer demand in a market already dominated by efficient private payment systems. Instead, Seoul shifted toward a regulated stablecoin system under the forthcoming Digital Asset Basic Act, which will allow banks—and eventually licensed non-bank entities—to issue won-pegged stablecoins. The Financial Services Commission will regulate reserves, redemption, and capital adequacy, while leaving product design and competition to the market. This mirrors the U.S. GENIUS Act approach, where the government sets rules but leaves issuance and innovation to the private sector, positioning stablecoins—not CBDCs—as the future of state-backed digital money.”
@GrayBlack, your PL and PSG should not have been putting up with people falling asleep on security. Sounds more like a leadership problem to me than a female one.
They obviously can’t be held to the same physical or social standards as men, so is it any wonder why standards, in a system that preaches equality, end up falling for everyone?
Sure, that’s a “leadership” problem, but it’s also undeniable that women change the culture the more they are present. In the past you could discipline people by making then do a few pushups, or maybe even smoke them if they fucked up bad enough. No paperwork, they learn without career ramifications. These days a woman might see and get upset. Now you have a harrasment and bullying legal case. You could resort to paperwork, but now you risk getting swamped in administrative processes and not running the unit effectively.
I saw on PC try to give a negative couseling to a female for a minor issue she was clearly wrong, she refused to sign and the issue worked its way all the way up to to a Major. It took months to resolve. She ended up not punished.
I’ve seen barrack bunnies sleep their way through half the Plt, the ensueing social chaos, and only the men getting punished for that.
The examples are endless. Gender integration failed.
@GrayBlack, I will have to disagree with you for the most part. The military could not operate without women in it. It sounds like you had some poor leadership in your prior unit. I have known a few female Soldiers in the past who have tried to play the gender card to get out of trouble and it rarely works. The big things male officers and NCOs have to be careful of is always counsel with another Soldier present, preferably a female and do not touch other Soldiers without asking first. I saw a First Sergeant relieved for pushing a female Soldier over an obstacle on a confidence course by her butt without asking her first and she filed a complaint.
“The military could not operate without women in it.”
If that is a true statement, it is the result of self-sabotaging social engineering rather than the reliance on some inate ability of women to wage warfare.
A better statement might be, “We have put ourselves in a position where the military could not operate without women in it and it is probably time we reevaluate what rolls are suited to their nature rather than trying to shoehorn women into positions and situations that thousands of years of warfare have shown to be best done by men without the distraction of women.”
Supreme Allied Commander of Europe wasn’t on the schools list when he left Korea (as a Captain), because the person who wrote his OPR didn’t say, specifically, “send this person to leadership school”. Though he was the top Captain at the base. (Mike was the top captain at Aviano and his said “send to school”, since his boss knew how to write an OPR)
He went through a lot of arsepain to get added to the schools list, and at the time Mike thought it was a little silly. Who cares about leadership school, really? But Grynch was successful, ultimately, and got on the list.
If not for that, he probably wouldn’t have even made O7.
Weird to think about. Not as surreal as seeing his name in the news as the person in the middle of the Ukraine/Russia negotations now.