Rick's Korea Trip Photos

Rick's Korea "Trip" - Photos
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- 07 Sept 2001

- 18 February 2002

Rick's "Home" 1971 - 72
CO - Capt James L. McAllister
XO - 1Lt Richard E. Langdon
1Sgt - SFC Malcom L. Stewart


Lt. Langdon	Capt. McAllister

"Uncle Sam's" - All expenses paid .... "Trip" to Korea
- He just wanted a little work while I was there -

Camp Edwards (East) & "The Bravo Beast" ... thru the years ...
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Uncle Sam sent me - but dad's good P&W engines got me there In-flight between McCord AFB & Anchorage	1st morning - wake up Out my billet's window Co C 702nd Maint Bn Motor Pool Camp Edwards (West) Definately not S. Fla !!	@ Camp Howze after reporting in to - 2nd Engr Bn HQ look out over E Co 2nd Engr (Bridge Co)	On the way back from Cp Howze Rice "Hay" stacks
Korea's "civilian" method for driving bridge piles (MSR 1 was being upgraded from 2 lanes to 4 lanes from Seoul to Munsan)	- Get to work now - Foundation prep for two relocatable barracks @ Camp Rice (2/77 Cav)	Layout & digging for spread footers	ME - 1971 (Sent this pic back to Lin and she didn't know who it was !!)
The "Turkey Farm" Near RC 1 at Yan-ga-gol	'nuff said ? I think so !!!	"trip" to 2nd Engr Bn HQ Camp Casey Near Tong Du Chon to put in Req. for materials	-back to work - setting forms Cp Rice 3 KSC's & SSG Britt KSC - Korean Service Corps (civilian craftsmen / laborers)
My "first" concrete placed in Korea Cp Rice	putting the finishing touches on the formwork at the opposite end Cp Rice	poured out on the 1st slab forming the 2nd Cp Rice	formwork for the 2nd slab Cp Rice
"One tuckered out soldier" Sp5 Fraizer on the mixer	'gotta let 'em know where to send the "Thank you note" - ! right ! - :-)	The "ant hill" dry in one side - wet out the other and away you go - 12S mixer - (~ 1/2 CY at a time)	Typical farming village Unchon-ni (N. of Munsan) out side Camp McKenzie location for Relocatable pads # 3 & 4
Unchon Ni ~ 2Km North of Munsan (Cp McKenzie was "home" to another Cav Unit - I don't remember which one)	Revised & faster method @ Cp Mckenzie put the mixer inside the forms mix & pull it out as the pour progressed	- brought a "dry charge" to the mixer by loader Worked better ! (Aggregate stockpile down below)	The troops were happier too. PFC Robertson on the mixer 2 of my KATUSA's in the background
Work continued on MSR 1 A LOT of hand work All of the base rock was spread and graded by hand, then over sanded - by hand and rolled with that old steel wheeled roller	final grading a hwy cut - by hand - Think that all the "Mama-san's and Papa-san's from all the adjacent villages were mobilized for this hwy work	2nd slab at Cp Mckenzie (4th slab for us :-) If one works good - inside - two mixers inside worked even better	pouring out two at a time - this time slab #4 Cp McKenzie
In our "spare time" we started work on a new Latrine/Shower for my troops at Camp Edwards (East)	A "partial" load of Kim-chi cabbage ... you wouldn't believe what a FULL load looked like - piled about 6' higher than the cab !!	Delivering more Cement for pad #4 Cp McKenzie	My KATUSA Sgt Kang
Digging footers for "our" new Latrine/Shower Cp Edwards (East)	Land of the Morning Calm Sunrise at Camp Edwards (East)	Mr Cho & Miss Ko "The Pablo Ramos Club" Officers Club at Camp Edwards (West)	"Alert" SGT Bang, PFC Barke, PFC Robertson, SGT Jenning
"Alert" PVT Jordan, PVT Woofe, PVT Han, PVT Chun, PFC Volmar, SP4 Miller, Sgt Nagen	"Alert" SP4 Butler, PFC Garret, PFC Hook, PFC Toney, SP5 Fraizer	"Alert" PVT Liberty, PFC Shipley, PVT Yoo, PFC Stauffer PFC Roach, SSG Britt	A Farmer plowing his rice paddy outside Camp Edwards (East)
In December '71 we (B Co 2nd Engr's) had a basketball team in the 2ID recreation league. One game - at Cp Howze, I think - we played against the 2nd Aviation Brigade (?) and who should I come on but my "bunkmate" from OCS at Ft. Belvoir - 1Lt Jim Briske. He'd gone on to helicopter flight school at Ft. Rucker and was now also in "The Land of the Morning Calm" flying "Hueys".	UH1 View Camp Edwards (East)	UH1 View Camp Edwards (East)	It was getting near Christmas, we had little or nothing in the way of Christmas "spirit", no "decorations", and no trees available - in our neck of the woods. We decided to put that situation right. Jim, on "some pretext", arranged to fly down to Seoul (where it wasn't a "hardship tour" and we came back with his ship loaded to the gills with trees and decorations for our troops.