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Charles Crow Flies High

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Charles Crow Flies High was born into a military family in Lawton, Oklahoma. After graduating from high school in 1990, he joined the army, noting that he always knew service would be his path. He was trained as an infantryman at Ft. Sill, specializing as a cannon crew member. He did two tours on the Korean peninsula, with the first occurring in 1993, and the second in 2002. While in Korea, he served as a member of the United States Forces Korea (USFK) as well as working as part of the United Nations (UN). He is proud of his service in defending the Korean people and is very fond of their culture, even stating that he would love to retire and live on the peninsula.

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13 Bravo

Charles Crow Flies High was section chief on a cannon crew. There were ten crew members in each crew, and they included a driver, chief, section chief, gunner, assistant gunner, loader, ammo track crew, and ammo team chief. He recalls one of the cannons having the ability to reach up to thirty miles away.

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Entering Korea in 1993

Charles Crow Flies High was sent to Korea for his first deployment in November 1993. He flew into Kimpo Air Force Base, and then he was sent to Seoul to get finished setting up to protect South Korea. He recounts that they were "locked and stocked" at all times from that point forward. His job was to watch for Kim Jong Il and his North Korean troops to make sure that they did not take over Seoul.

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Knowledge of Korea

Charles Crow Flies High did not know much about Korea before his deployment, except for the details about the Korean War. Since many of his relatives were in the military, he knew about the Korean War, and it made him really proud to protect the peninsula just like they did. For both deployments, Charles Crow Flies High stayed for fifteen months protecting a variety of areas along the DMZ.

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United States and Republic of Korea

Charles Crow Flies High talks about why the relationship between the United States and the Republic of Korea is a good thing for both countries. He believes that Kim Jung Un is influenced by his father, but there is a lot of camaraderie between US troops and Korean civilians. The Korean culture has spread around the United States, and he feels that this is a very positive interaction.

Tags: Civilians,Food,Home front,Impressions of Korea,Living conditions,Modern Korea,North Koreans,Pride,South Koreans

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Video Transcript

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hi I’m Charles crow flies high CRO w FL
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IES h igh crow flies high that’s very
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unusual last name and what is your
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birthday tenjune 1972 where were you
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born Lawton Fort Sill Oklahoma ah Lawton
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Oklahoma mm-hmm that’s where the Fort
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Sill located as correct yeah home with
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the artillery yes so tell me about your
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family when you were growing up there my
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family was a my family military a father
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was a you know he was a nco in the
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artillery there at Fort sale my uh I
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pretty much raised up there I got to go
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to I got to go to Germany one time as a
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dependent with my father he was a hard
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man it was drill sergeant at Fort Sill
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it was he was fair though I mean hard
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but fair my father was a great sa great
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motivator in my life hmm heading just
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you know heading in the direction i took
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my uh my whole key my whole key to
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everything was mother and father both my
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younger sister who is now deceased she
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she was also also a pertinent part of my
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you know my life coming up I think
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that’s the reason why when I lost my
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mother and my father my last play by my
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sister and my mother and the same year
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that was pertinent in my career heading
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towards you know heading toward where I
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am at today as far as you know as far as
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career goes I was pretty much destined
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to join the army it was a like army oh
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that’s my whole life that was my whole
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life army all the way
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I had discipline I just one thing I do
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as I grew up with a lot of discipline so
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some of the kids that you know that
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we’re coming up in the world you know
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you know mommy and daddy type things
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they’re gonna get it for me I didn’t
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have that you know my father was what my
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father got to the point what he call
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that uh if you want it go work for it
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and that’s how I got that’s how I got to
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where I am that today you know my uh but
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as far as you know my mother my mother
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my father and my sister you know but my
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dad being retired first or you know at
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the United States Army uh who’s still
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living great influence in my life what
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high school did you graduate I graduated
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lot in high school Lawton Oklahoma
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saying when my mother graduated from mmm
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when did you graduate i graduated in
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nineteen ninety and then what did you do
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donia join the military right after that
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right after that join the military where
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did you when did you join remember the
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date and month i want to say is kenny
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wary of 1990 he has correct sir where
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did you get the basic military training
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for CHL Oklahoma you don’t go anywhere
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nope didn’t have to go anywhere what was
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your specialty 13 Bravo what is that
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that is a 13 Bravo is a cannon
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crewmember it’s learning learning the
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ins and outs of the of the field
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artillery you know I understand but the
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audience will be ok done so you need to
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explain detail what do you mean by
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cannon crewmember can do you remember is
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the big they’re the biggest guns the
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Army has ok and the field artillery is a
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support of the infantry ok when they
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call for fire we’re there that’s why
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they’re known as the king of battle ok
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and it’s the job of the crew members
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you know how many crew members they’re
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supposed to be there supposed to be Ted
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just like there is an infantry school oh
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one cannon for one gun section that’s
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correct ten crew members 10 crew members
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tell me about each role okay by the 10
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okay in reality though we were we were
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short manned a whole lot the most i
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probably a lot of the lot of times crew
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members were crew members were in the
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78th at most he’s job you had to have a
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driver for the gun you got to have your
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chief your section chief which step
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there tells you hey this is what goes
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with what don’t go you got your gunner
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you have your assistant your honor and
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you have a you have what they call the
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loader okay there’s also a crew for the
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for the Apple track that goes with it
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keep those shells ready this is what
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we’re firing and that’s let’s put the
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responsibility mo team chief was guide
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them it refuses ready get your get your
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rounds ready get you all your powders
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boom pretty much that’s the way it went
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and then soon as they call for so
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there’s okay we got a mission fire it
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boom and it was a it was a good
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experience as they actually call the
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field artillery the best instructors in
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the United States Army who a member of
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10 crew what what was your role my role
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was section chief section chief so you
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were in charge yes how accurate this
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cannon can be depending on the grid
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depending on the grid it can be anywhere
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from anywhere dead on spot Cold Steel on
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target or it could be anywhere within I
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would say within 50 meters 15 metre
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fifty meters 50 meters yes that’s for
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what is the distance that he can reach
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with the head we had a wrap round
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rocket-assisted projectile which had
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which had a boost on it it could reach
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up to as high as 30 miles 30 mile 30
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miles wow so out of the blue that can
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just get to the end of this correct they
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called it the killer jr. hmm hit the
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enemy by surprise and let him let him
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suffer did your father served in any war
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no he did not uh-huh so he was not in
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Korean War no no he was too young right
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no he uh yeah he’s so he’s too young to
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then yeah he’s uh his only like my
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father’s only probably 67 years old
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mmhmm yeah um so when did you leave for
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korea first time i left the korea in
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november of 93 from Fort Carson Colorado
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from Fort Carson Colorado Carson yep CA
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are som yep what was your mission and
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where did you go tell me about those
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details the details of my first trip to
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Korea the mission basically is you get
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your assignment you go your report it’s
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all about basically that time it was
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about Kim Jong Il especially I mean his
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I guess as they say is his wanting to
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take I mean you wanted to take some soul
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that’s what they wanted and our job as
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as all soldiers didn’t matter what sold
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you a matter if your field artillery it
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matter if your tanker didn’t matter if
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you’re in for treatment didn’t matter
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what you were your so your sole mission
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when you got the Korea let’s do you get
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locked stock ready to rock okay you do
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not allow anybody to Dover over do what
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he caught it to overrun you mm-hm you
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fight till death so um did you fly or
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what did I did you fly from Fort Carson
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to Korea yeah uh-huh I had go to I had
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to go to uh we call that first time I
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went I had to go
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a fort leonard wood mm-hmm and that was
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they call a little korea and that gets
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you kind of adapted to what you know
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what’s going on and then dan and we all
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got you know then we all got booked and
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we flew to we they flew us into a kimpo
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gimpo and soul yep upon arrival we got
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you know you we hit the total farm as we
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called it because it takes you 365 days
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to get from one building to the other
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one or sit right next to each other got
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there and it gets you they get you
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adapted acclimated whatever the case may
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be because it’s cold and you’re over
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freezing and guess what that’s what it
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was all about solution did you know
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anything about Korea before you left for
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Korea actually no sir I did not did you
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know anything about Korean War I knew
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the Korean War was five my grandfather
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my mom’s side fought the Korean War all
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really yep he sure did he bought by I
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was the second generation I in my fit
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with my family I saved my mom’s side of
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the family to have served on the Korean
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Peninsula so your mom’s father served
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correct Korean War know what’s his name
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yep sure do what do you see my
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grandfather’s name was William Alfred
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burial he a ryo berry o yep and that’s
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your mother side grandfather yep that’s
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my mother sigh dad yeah and he served in
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the war right yep he served two Korean
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War he did World War two Korea and
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Vietnam so you really not know anything
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about Korea but you knew about the
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Korean War oh yeah I do about the other
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war yeah I do I had I knew I had family
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members that had served in the Korean
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War my grandfather made me proud you
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know to be you know to be able to to
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follow a legacy like that of the
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division alerts that we had the cold you
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know it gives you it gives you an
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insight on
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what was really going on you know back
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in the 50s back when that all took place
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I did good I did get go to Seoul the
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first time when we r we went down there
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and we saw the museum and you know the
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kings and queens of the of Korea at the
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time I thought it was I thought it was
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majestic I enjoyed it I like the history
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and that’s how I really got you know
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that’s how I really got more into the
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Korean environment my my second time
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over there was even better than the
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first when did you go back I went back
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and so how long did you stay in Korea
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when you went to 1993 own i was there 15
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months uh normally how long can you stay
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there as a soldier well what was your
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rank and where did you I was a I was a
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PFC and made it to e4 at the time what
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was your unit by unit at the time was
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Bravo battery 82 the eight field
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artillery how many I’m sorry what
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artillery Bravo battery eight of the
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eight field artillery a dog ate yep etho
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field artillery a to the eighth yep does
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that belong to any division it belonged
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to ID check them train 2nd infantry yep
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where did you station first time I was
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stationed I got stationed at Camp
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Stanley we uh we jumbo mm-hmm and then
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we moved up to we moved up to Hobie
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which is a talker or tongue to Sun as we
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as they say in Korea’s danke Shon I got
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spit on I got put on JSA duty joint
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security area Pamela John I got stuck on
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that 45 cold days it was crazy we had to
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wear the way to where the NATO the NATO
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armbands and all that good stuff and
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they would look at you and say you know
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I was like you think you’re cold look at
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look at these North Koreans you know I’m
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a
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I don’t care what they feel I just like
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I don’t care what they feel you know
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what my job is my job as an American
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American soldier is I will I will
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support and defend the Constitution of
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the United States of America against all
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enemies foreign and domestic and right
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now that’s the enemy ok I will stand out
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here for as long as I possibly can and
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it’s time to go warm up I’ve also i was
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we did a lot of job we did a lot of work
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around the moon sun area especially
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which is where 47 cab was at it was a
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second time i got stationed which was at
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that time the eighth of the eighth field
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artillery got reflagged to the to 2nd
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battalion 17th field artillery station
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in the same place camp Hovey where where
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it was always at we I got straight as
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you go back when did i go back i went
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back november i was november about to so
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what is the regulation how long I was
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supposed to be able to serve in the US
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FK USFK what is the regulation I was
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supposed to serve for a year to my
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knowledge that’s what it was ok and you
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extend it no I was involuntarily
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extended voluntarily extended it right
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well I was involuntarily extended
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because we had you know we had paperwork
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issues so I got stuck I got stuck there
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for the second time I got stuck there
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for three extra months which was dope no
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big deal to me so you are supposed to be
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there for a year and then you can
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voluntarily extend their right but you
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need to be rotations right right yeah
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how about the officers the officers at
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the time i would say at the officers at
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the time were two year no no no most of
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them were most of them were in a
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favorite command they’re taking command
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spots i would say at least two years but
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see nowadays is the
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I it is like that anymore it’s okay you
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do one year with with a unit and then
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you could take another command spot and
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you do you know you do your year at
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least that’s what I’ve been told and
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were officers were were never pretty
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reluctant I mean they were they were
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pretty good how much were you paid in
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1993 as a PFC Lord oh maybe I would say
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it’s hard to remember that one i would i
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would say i was making clothes i was
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about 1,500 a month I’m sorry 15 about
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1,500 a month a month yeah do you know
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how much war the Korean War veterans
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paid probably weigh less than that i
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would say a pse on the average it back
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then in the Korean War was probably
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making in there anywhere in the vicinity
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of about I would say maybe if you’re
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lucky 50 50 70 80 with the combat pay
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you go up to around hundred okay yeah
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that sounds about right okay yeah so but
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you you stayed in the barrel right yep
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stay in the barracks and they give you
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the uniform or did you do you have to
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buy the uniform oh yeah I had to buy
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uniform I know we’re supposed to if we
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had anything that was old everything you
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could DX but then again most the time
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that would take it would take so much
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time for that to happen so you had you
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had to go buy it mmm yeah um you are in
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Korea 1993 and then you went back two
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thousand two that’s correct what is the
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difference that you saw when you were in
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2002 were there much difference but then
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it’s about the 10 year was it yeah so
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I’ll say within a decade I saw I saw a
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big change in the in the motivation I
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saw a big change in how the army of
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transformation was making it was
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technical taking this toll
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and personally I think that the Korean
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environment I personally think all
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soldiers when you go we know if you come
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in the Army I think you should go to
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Korea you know why because I really
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think that’s where the army really is
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that because the ROK army which we work
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closely with was actually they were what
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we were to say 30 years ago you know
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like during Vietnam I really think the
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ROK army has come a long way I enjoyed
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working with them the rocks are majors
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and everybody they were all over there
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were they’d come india since heels for
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teaching the ketosis you know what they
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need you know what you know what they
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were needing to know and I’m tell you
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duh some of those guys were rock hard
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rock steady and fit to you know fit to
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fight motivation level was definitely
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higher esprit de corps it was definitely
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up there you know we had the suffer the
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same consequences is everybody else if
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there was a curfew we lived it and if if
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there wasn’t immediately if the if the
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Koreans decided to start writing for
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some reason for whatever reason yeah we
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got yeah we had to go on lockdown just
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like everybody else but see my second
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time going to Korea I had to deploy from
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Korea to Iraq I probably I’m probably
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one of the very few members of this
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chapter here that Zach that’s actually
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done that so you participate in the war
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with Iraq yeah yeah I deployed from i
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went from i went from Fort Hood here to
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Korea and when I got there you know I
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got to Korea and basically I wouldn’t
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even there that long and I got to go the
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invasion you know the Indian Head
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secondary division second to none I went
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over I went over a part of what they
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call task force therapy g3 ID was
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already there we went on the invasion
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and where were you fact that oh well we
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uh where we stopped at we started a
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dacoit and we drove
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three days yeah we drove all the way up
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i didn’t i didn’t get to go all the way
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back dad no but a lot of them a lot of
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those guys did you know they they we
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were I was wearing the I was born to ID
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so have I been to Baghdad yes several
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times didn’t get to visit Baghdad a
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whole lot to say in you and for tours
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over there but you know what was the
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most difficult thing for you to serve in
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Korea two times what was the most
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difficult thing is it cultural thing is
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it something or what is it weather or i
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would say more the weather than it was
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anything because you know when you go
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from you know you go from the harsh
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brutal winter that Korea does upper to
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you know but you have a very modern very
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good gear oh yeah well here’s everything
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oh yeah but and you don’t have to live
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in all of that stuff didn’t work you
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didn’t have to sleep in the bunk or
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foxhole oh I beg but if you’re oh yeah
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where do we had to go sleep in it in the
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cold itself we had to go dig in we had
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as they say back in the day they call
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cold weather training we’d have to get
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up ruck up better get our rugs together
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we’d have to road march out to this one
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point and they call subarctic
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temperatures so didn’t matter if it was
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30 degrees below zero yeah we went up
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there got out like get onto the onto the
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mountain there and we dug in we slept
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the only the commander was trying to
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prove the commander’s we’re trying to
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prove is that hey you can survive
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subarctic temperatures these guys decide
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you know if North Korea decides they
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want to come down and get us you can
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survive you can survive and that’s what
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our whole that’s what our whole mission
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was it’s about the time of the year that
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they cannot possibly attack but you know
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what I don’t I don’t I I don’t draw I
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wouldn’t choose to go back do it again
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but I don’t dread it what I’ve already
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been through mm-hmm
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what is the thing that you like Korea
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the culture is very wonderful from the
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food to the to the language itself you
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know I didn’t I don’t know all of the
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Korean language but you know I knew
22:32
enough to get me by I knew what I needed
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to do to be able to communicate with ma
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dad everybody else you know involved no
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involved in the situation anywhere
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around me I mean the food is a
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spectacular what is your favorite food
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Korean food ain’t no light cheese ramen
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cheese Romney yes oh yeah we’re
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especially when we went to the field you
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know we had field mall out there and she
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was she cooked and cooked up like some
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of these guys would run a tab up there
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were two hundred dollars I’m like me I
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would settle on maybe you know maybe
23:14
every other day what you know and I give
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me a little so you like ramen oh I’m
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lavake man do i love i love bulgogi not
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to make a fan of k gogi but you tried I
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have what I i did my axe how about
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kimchi I’ve tried a little bit of it I
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can’t really say I can’t really say that
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uh that was a I can’t really say I’m a
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big fan of the of the more spicier
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kimchi but I have tried different
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different different what they call that
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out looks of the kimchi like the kimchi
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pancakes I have tried those they’re not
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there drop bad they’re not really bad
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the first time I was over there I did
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when I wouldn’t touch the stuff but then
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again that’s when I could smell and when
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I could smell the second time I’m like
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the ketosis down there they did they
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have that they’d have them old barracks
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thinking up uh uh of everything we’re
24:17
like wondering what’s going on around
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here i’ll be i can smell if it’s one
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thing another thing that was good about
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that environment with
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is the fact that because of the
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fertilizer is being used in the Curia I
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could tell I could tell when something
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had gone had gone to the restroom I
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could tell whether human dog cow I was
24:40
like wow but you know what that was when
24:43
you know that’s when it kind of helps
24:45
your senses out makes you understand you
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know makes you understand what you know
24:49
more of a lot of Korea still is still
24:54
the old way um did you make a lot of
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friends with the Korean soldiers oh yes
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oh yeah yeah yeah what do you think of
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them I think some of them were more
25:10
about the more about some of them what
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to me about half of them the ones i met
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i think they were more about the you
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know what I don’t really don’t want to
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be your type thing I just want to do my
25:25
two years and you know go on my merry
25:28
way then there was course there was the
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ketosis that we had I had I had a good
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catoosa in my section and i’ll tell you
25:35
right now he was he was on point he was
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he suffered with us if if everybody if
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everybody got he got in trouble just
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like everybody else did if he he got
25:47
trouble he suffered the same thing we
25:48
did and because if he did you know
25:51
usually the rocks are made it was like
25:53
oh no no no you’re you’re with them
25:55
you’re a Korean dog meat each of the
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United States Army and that’s what
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you’re gonna do you’re gonna learn just
25:59
like they do so if so if we suffered he
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suffered to our corporate a good guy
26:10
that could see him again be great i
26:14
would like to i would like to see him
26:16
again he was an outstanding individual
26:18
and I wish them the best a very smart
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individual very smart what do you think
26:25
about the relationship between two
26:27
country Korea and the United States I
26:30
think it’s I think our relationship is
26:33
wonderful I think it needs to stay that
26:35
way
26:39
whatever Kim Jong on decides to do I
26:44
think he’s young I think he doesn’t I
26:49
think he’s kind of he’s being molded
26:51
more by that more by the Society of the
26:54
Socialists around him you know the
26:56
comment whatever you know whatever was
26:57
trained by his a by his father before
27:00
him if you know they if they pay my
27:07
retirement go live in Korea that’s where
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we gonna live I’ll tell you I way I
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loved it I loved it that much over there
27:12
you know I love the I love the people
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that you know that I was there with and
27:17
i would give you you know i would give
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my life for them because i feel at the
27:23
same time though i think what we’ve done
27:25
is we’ve exchanged traditions because
27:28
there’s a big population of the the
27:31
koreans here I like that I like to like
27:35
being over there because you know
27:36
there’s a lot of camaraderie between
27:39
till between the people you know the
27:43
troops and of course there was a lot of
27:46
people that tick them off you know like
27:47
oh yeah I didn’t do that but it was
27:50
necessarily that it was just you know
27:52
getting over temperaments and getting
27:55
communication that is the biggest key
27:57
that’s two to the two you know until the
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to our to our social status with Korea
28:02
and I I enjoyed that yes were there any
28:05
casualties in your unit while you’re in
28:07
Korea not my unit specifically but there
28:12
was there was a few casualties of
28:15
ketosis that happened around the area I
28:21
did notice that they said that a
28:26
headache atusa I guess had jumped off
28:29
something to commit suicide I don’t know
28:32
why I wasn’t there but I could tell you
28:35
this I told him you know when we look
28:37
when we heard about that our catoosa
28:40
said you know corporal che he said hey I
28:43
I knew him and I said well you know my
28:45
condolences go out to you but he might
28:47
have been suffering something and he
28:50
might he might have been thinking
28:51
he was the only one going through it or
28:53
whatever the case may be it probably
28:54
didn’t seek help but you know it’s sad
29:00
to see that you know that that did that
29:02
that happened or they might have
29:04
forgotten to a fight or something I
29:06
don’t know but my foundation wants to
29:11
recognize us FK US soldier who’s
29:14
stationed in Korea after the war right
29:17
it’s not just about the security Korea
29:20
but also you made a contribution to many
29:24
different sectors of our society right
29:27
you wore out artillery unit right you
29:29
may have more technology transfer to
29:32
korean artillery right needs medical
29:37
engineering management everything right
29:41
in many different parts of your military
29:43
actually you know share your knowledge
29:46
and technology with the Korean people a
29:49
Korean society so that you really
29:51
contribute to the development of Korean
29:55
social economic cultural development
29:58
exactly and we exchanged together it’s
30:00
not just one sided as you mentioned is
30:03
all communications right communication
30:06
yeah so my foundation really wants to
30:08
work with the Korea defense veteran
30:11
that’s how we rename it right you are
30:13
the Korea defense veteran is correct
30:15
compared to Korean War veteran right so
30:19
someday we hope that we can form an big
30:23
organization Korea defense veteran and
30:26
we gather together and celebrating the
30:28
you know commemorating and celebrating
30:31
our annual convention right maybe you
30:34
can start from killing because you have
30:36
a fort hood here the biggest one yes and
30:39
there’s law and like like I’m trying to
30:42
do now any Korean Defense Service
30:46
veteran that was you know that’s coming
30:48
back from coming back from the peninsula
30:50
I’m trying to get them on board here
30:53
yeah there are many in oh there’s
30:56
a–there’s a ton of them United States
30:58
forces Korea and
31:00
and in America it is a strong
31:03
organization it needs to grow stronger
31:05
yep yep and I totally belong to que todo
31:08
VA yes I do ah and gotcha gotcha do you
31:12
know let’s go together I’ll say I’m
31:14
gonna say come I’m sacrum something down
31:17
thank you yep