Largest Ever US-South Korea Military Drill Planned As A 'Warning To Pyongyang'
Source: Telegraph UK
By Julian Ryall, in Tokyo
10:39AM GMT 22 Feb 2016
The joint US-South Korean exercises scheduled for March will be largest military drills ever staged on the Korean Peninsula and are both a warning to Pyongyang and an effort to reassure the jittery public in the South.
The parallel Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises are scheduled to commence on March 7, with the field-training exercises that make up Foal Eagle lasting until April 30. The drills will involve 15,000 US troops, twice the number of previous years, and will serve to demonstrate Washington's firepower.
The US will deploy a combat aviation brigade to South Korea for the duration of the manoeuvres, as well as a mobile US Marine brigade, an aircraft carrier and its attendant fleet, a nuclear-powered submarine and aeriel tankers to refuel fighter aircraft.
South Korea will commit some 290,000 personnel, including special forces, more than double its usual deployment for the annual drills.
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NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)What a hellish time that was to be stuck in Korea.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)It was too damn hot to wear your rain gear, and too damn wet to not.
GP6971
(31,166 posts)Team Spirits of the late 80s. I usually deployed in late January and returned in late May. Truly was a hellish time of the year to be there.