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Archive: 2014

USS Lake Erie arrives in Mokpo
March 8, 2014 — Capt. JohnS. Banigan, commanding officer of the Ticonderoga-class guided missilecruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70), home-ported in Pearl Harbor, receives alei from a child wearing atraditional Korean... MORE

Sailors visit Orphanage on Koje Island
March 2, 2014 — Active duty and reserve Sailors from Commander, U.S. Naval ForcesKorea, Fleet Activities Chinhae, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1and the Republic of Korea Navy compete as groups against one... MORE

Odierno thanks U.S. troops, praises allies
February 25, 2014 — The U.S. Army's top general made his second visit to South Korea, Sunday through Tuesday.As a part of a visit to the Asia Pacific region, U.S. Army Chief ofStaff Gen. Ray Odierno met with U.S. and... MORE

US, ROK Navy Strengthen Alliance
February 20, 2014 — Commander,Task Force (CTF) 70; Commander, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15; andRepublic of Korea navy (ROKN) Maritime Task Flotilla (MTF) 7 held aComposite Warfare Committee (CWC) to improve combined... MORE

Tae Seong Dong graduation ceremony
February 14, 2014 — Fewelementary school graduations are attended by senior military leadersand national press corps. In the only community inside the southern halfof the demilitarized known as Tae Seong Dong (or... MORE

Heroic Korean War veterans remembered
February 12, 2014 — American and South Korean military officials remembered the Soldiers whofixed bayonets and charged up a mountain into withering enemy fire 63years ago during the Battle of Hill 180.During an... MORE

Instructor shares combat experience with students
February 5, 2014 — A combat veteran who earned the Purple Heart in Iraq is teaching a newgeneration of U.S. and South Korean noncommissioned officers in Korea.Staff Sgt. Keith C. Thompson teaches noncommissioned... MORE

Korean military cadets visit CFC
February 4, 2014 — Graduating cadets from the Republic of Korea Military Academy and AirForce Academy visited the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command during thefirst week of February to learn more about the role and... MORE

Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, United Nation Command, Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Korea commander, and Gen. Park Seon Woo, Combined Forces Command deputy commander, welcome the cadets of the Korean Military Acadamy to United States Army Garrison Yongsan, South Korea, Feb. 4, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brian Gibbons)

Special Measures Agreement
February 2, 2014 — U.S.Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Sung Kim and Republic of KoreaForeign Minister Yun Byung-Se signed the U.S. –ROK Special MeasuresAgreement Feb. 2. The agreement will be submitted to U.S. and... MORE

The United Nations Command (Rear) change of Command
January 28, 2014 — Royal Australian Air Force Group Captain Barbara Courtney assumed command of United Nations Command, Rear, from Royal Australian Air Force Group Captain Luke Stoodley during a ceremony at Yokota Air... MORE

The United Nations flag waves at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Jan. 10, 2014. Yokota AB is one of the United Nation Command bases, under the UNC-Japan Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) Decrees. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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