From: "Robert G Lewis" 

I had a cousin who was offered a less than honorable discharge or duty on
South Korea on the DMZ. He took the discharge and joined the National Guard
in some sort of Special Forces type unit which he loved. He was not exactly
cut out for a line unit, too head strong way and independent. A
very strange character to say the least.

My father barely missed being in Korea. He had joined the AF in 50 or 51
and went to Radio training. They asked for volunteers to become radio
instructors. He did not volunteer and wound up in Germany. Those who
volunteered to become radio instructions wound up in South Korea during the
fighting. My father got a nice job with Air Force Security monitoring
Russian Military broadcasts. Had combat broken out in  Europe he would have
been evacuated before women and children.

Bob Lewis

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>I was stationed in Korea in 66-67.  I remember that tensions were quite
>high then
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> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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>>I was actually thinking of that incident when I wrote
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>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>>> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote
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>>>> We have had continuing peace talks. Not sure if there are any
>>>> currently. the US government for many years seemed to think that a
>>>> peace treaty would be the end. Otherwise why continue
peace talks. So
>>>> not exactly a 'win'. Definitely not a loss though.
>>>>
>>>> We have also kept some very good combat troops there until
recently and
>>>> have had casualties from North Korean actions over the years. Not
>>>> exactly what most people could consider peace.
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>>> In 1976 we used 3 B-52s , several fighters and 26 gunships to trim a
>>> tree in the DMZ
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>>> http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/northkorea/1976.html
>>> On August 18, 1976, the two sides came closer to war than any time since
>>> the Korean War armistice. On that day, a party of nine South Koreans,
>>> accompanied by two U.S. officers and four American military police,
>>> ventured into the DMZ to prune a poplar tree. They'd decided that the
>>> tree hindered a clear view between two U.N. checkpoints. The party from
>>> the South was met near the tree by a North Korean lieutenant and seven
>>> other men. At first, the North Koreans didn't seem bothered by the
>>> intentions of the tree-cutting crew. Then the North Korean lieutenant
>>> demanded the party halt its work. When he was refused, a truckload of
>>> North Korean reinforcements showed up. The incident quickly turned into
>>> a bloody conflict, resulting in two American soldiers being beaten then
>>> axed to death.
>>>
>>> But politics didn't keep the United States from staging a show of force
>>> a week later. With 26 helicopter gunships, three B-52 bombers and
>>> numerous fighter jets circling above, 300 U.S. and South Korean soldiers
>>> entered the DMZ -- to finish cutting down the poplar tree.
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