Junky here is my take on it . Kim Il Jomg is not all there never has been and never will be . PRK is scary as hell because there is so much we don't know about them , how they work , or what they will do . I don't know exactly when you were last on the Malone ranges but I suspect your memories of Sand Hill and Victory drive are fairly fresh . I aint saying what you are doing is safe or easy. In alot of ways you are a hostage there , I Corps is fairly weak formation these days . However there are some things going your way . The biggest difference is the ROK Armed Forces . What was there in 1950's was weak ill equipped , untrained forces drawn from peasants . That ain't so today . The ROK's are tough well equipped , well led , motivated little SOB's .They aren't going to want to see what their gradfathers , fathers and themselves built get pissed away , and turned into the workers paradise , with the bountiful life they are living up north , heh . They will fight like demons you can count on that . Second is the state of the PRK Army . It is crewed by men whose family's go hungry alot . Sure they got alot of gear but how well trained you think they are ? If you aint got fuel to drive that tank , and the blammo to take it to the range , you aint gonna be a real tough army , I don't give a crap about how much of it you got . I remember a lil party I went to called desert shield , Desert Storm . The bad guys there had a ton of stuff but they could not shoot move and communicate worth a damn , never could do all three at the same time , I bet you can . As one of your brothers of the BLUE CORD you better still be able to hero ! Bro its like this when you train train hard , when you maintain treat yer stuff like your life depends on it being serviceable . When it time to play go drink some soju ( I called it GODU cuz I would go do anything after a liter of it ) and do some of the crap young grunts don't ever tell their Moms about . And don't worry too much cuz that wont do a thing for you but make you old too soon . One last thing if you look at our history we do ok in conventional conflict , not so hot in whats called low intensity or insurgent warfare . If someone wants to go toe to toe with you right on its what we do best . When they are willing to lose battles longer than we are willing to win them we got trouble. Anyone tries to tell you its all about who has the most tanks and arty pieces we will go over some stuff about 1940 Europe and its Order of Battle for them . BTW the last born again hard grunts came from harmony church and the temp WW2 barracks that we were using in 1983

<S> my brother , and I got a couple questions for you . Is there really such a thing as a Stress card you can pull out when yer Drill Sergeant is being to mean ? When you turned Blue did you get to drink that nectar called Infantry Punch ? I cant imagine the Ft. Benning bogey with the card , or with out the drink .