George H. Campbell

0:00I Chief Warrant Officer for george h

0:07campbell C-A-M-P-B-E-L-L mmm born in pensacola

0:16florida uh-huh july the second nineteen

0:23twenty-eight 28 so tell me about your

0:30family and your siblings and schools you

0:33went I one of six children older brother

0:40Thomas with world war two in Europe then

0:46I have four sisters one it did the other

0:55three are still alive or carolina

0:59arkansas and florida in my family we are

1:06i have my first wife and I had three

1:14children three daughters eldest

1:18daughters and little daughter Lee and

1:24the youngest daughter Jane Lee and Jane

1:30are both the naval officers least now

1:34retired in Jane is presently in Norfolk

1:37Virginia yeah I met her at Norfolk

1:40Virginia I went down there to see the

1:44International Tattoo the military band

1:46competition and I was introduced to her

1:50and she introduced her Admiral whose

1:54father was Korean War veterans to so I

1:56had a wonderful interview yeah I want to

1:59thank you for wonderful daughter that

2:02you had thank you we traveled

2:08extensively

2:10the military I was in nineteen fifty at

2:17the outbreak of the korean war my

2:21grandfather was chairman of the draft

2:24board in this cambia county florida and

2:28he advised me if i wanted to have any

2:31kind of selection what i did in the army

2:35then i should contact recruiting people

2:39and my minister and my cousin had both

2:45served in the hundred and first airborne

2:47division during world war two under

2:50first yes and they said if you’re going

2:54to be in the service there’s nothing

2:56like being in the paratroops so i

2:59checked with the recruiters and asked

3:03what my possibilities were and had the

3:06drafty they said that were not very good

3:08but if i would sign up for a third year

3:11they could assure me that I would get a

3:14chance to go to jump school mm-hmm so I

3:17signed up for the third year and I did

3:21get to jump school at Fort Benning

3:23Georgia in January of nineteen fifty

3:29woman mm-hmm completed jump school and

3:33then got the medical admin training

3:37needs in the 11th airborne division so

3:46when did you graduate your high school

3:50graduated from high school 1946

3:53Pensacola high school pensacola home yet

3:57and what did you do after that I went to

4:00the University of Florida for a couple

4:03of years and then returned to the

4:08Pensacola Fort Walton area

4:11and work it hoss defend the hotel

4:15business and in the party fishing

4:21business there mm-hmm we had a lot of

4:24activity what they just studying the

4:27University of Florida pre-medical type

4:30pre-medical yes so when they already

4:34sent me the medical school they were

4:38utilizing some of that training that I

4:41had got when I wasn’t at the University

4:45so exactly what were you doing when the

4:48korean war broke out i was working at a

4:54hotel and Fort Walton Beach Florida

4:58mm-hmm and also running a party fishing

5:08boat that kind of led me up into being

5:19eligible for the draft I said after

5:25getting out of basic training mm-hmm I

5:28did get a chance to go to jump school at

5:31Fort Benning mm-hmm then I was sent to

5:35Brooke Army Medical Center for medical

5:39training as a company admin that’s a

5:44weird combination is in you finished the

5:47jumping school and then go to the

5:49medical yeah yeah each year each

5:53division and airborne has X number of

5:59usually three regiments and each

6:02regiment has a medical company in which

6:06they have people trained to go out with

6:08each of the platoons in the reservoir so

6:13I was went through the medical aid when

6:17training to be an agent for one of the

6:21infantry

6:23Fletcher in a rage and you said that you

6:28studied pre-med in University of Florida

6:32yeah so that had kind of fit together

6:36right yeah I had did about four years of

6:50medical work with the 11th airborne

6:52division and 11th airborne yes no and

6:58you walk there as a medical what medical

7:01admin uh-huh from there and i went to

7:08the 77th Special Forces Group the Green

7:14Berets 7777 Special Forces Group uh-huh

7:20at Fort Bragg North Carolina and during

7:29that time I was enabling but I was also

7:33an instructor in the underwater

7:35demolition school underwater demolition

7:39yeah what does that mean well we taught

7:43people how to go in and blow up bridges

7:47ah and also go into harbors and blow

7:53holes in the bottom of folks but I was

7:59doing the medical ailment mm-hmm I

8:01talked the aspects their concern about

8:06if you’re underwater and you want to

8:09blow up something you need to make sure

8:12that you have plenty of distance between

8:14you and explosion when it goes off so

8:18that what

8:23I had six years of that when they are me

8:34ask for people to learn how to take care

8:40of our Nike guided missile systems and

8:44so I was retrained from medical into

8:50radar and computer repair that seemed

8:57like a stretch but anyway that was the I

9:00did that m and including tours several

9:06places in the United States around the

9:08Washington Baltimore area also one year

9:11at the Thule Greenland where I took care

9:14of the radar been the computer when I

9:20got through with that they decided that

9:23they were going to turn turn all of

9:28those units over to reserve and National

9:31Guard so i was just about 25 miles from

9:36washington and i went in and talked to

9:40the people in the surgeon general’s

9:44office and told them I said I’ve got

9:47advanced medical training from the

9:49Special Forces jus exclaim the reason

9:54that you’re not dispatched to korean war

9:56yet when I go into 11th airborne

10:00division and they were reinstituting

10:06regimental combat team to replace the

10:10187 and then regimental combat team

10:13which had gone over to Korea right after

10:18the invasion by the North Korean yeah

10:22and so we were rebuilding a regimental

10:26combat team and I was selected to be one

10:30of the medical Adelman right that team

10:32so we were

10:35basically building a regimental combat

10:38team at Fort Campbell Kentucky up until

10:44late actress sorted the long peace

10:48negotiation so by the time that the team

10:55would complemented two completed or we

11:00did not have the requirement over there

11:02for another airborne regimental combat

11:05icing I said I stayed with that

11:09regimental team at Fort Campbell then

11:12and it was one of the situations where

11:19they take a one regiment out of a

11:23division like they did in Korea and they

11:27put together the infantry artillery

11:31think through that short make one

11:34regimental combat learning and so once

11:37that one was with deployed to Korea then

11:41they had to reconstitute and make

11:45another one and I just happened to

11:48finish the medical training at the time

11:51they were rebuilding or making another

11:54regimental team that could meet avoid

11:57later but that was the one of the

12:01situations where we

12:09both good and bad comes with a okay so

12:17tell me about when and how you were sent

12:22to Korea for medical management okay as

12:25I mentioned one of my assignment when I

12:30got into the medical equipment repair

12:33and that would be the instructor at the

12:37Army’s medical maintenance coop in

12:43denver colorado and during my time as an

12:49instructor there we had students from

12:53all over the world including korean

12:56students uh-huh and so i was offered the

13:02job while i was stationed in denver to

13:08go to big just mag assignment in korea

13:15as the medical equipment to repair

13:20officer and so we finally went over to

13:28korea and 72 and we were assigned to the

13:33Korean Medical base depo in Pusan and it

13:40since it with an advisor assignment I

13:43was able to take my family with me and

13:45we had quarters do a facility called

13:49hialeah compound in Pusan a little aside

13:55to that went Jayne with it tending the

13:58National War College she went over to

14:02Korea and talked to who ever would have

14:08the dish to Pusan it was allowed the

14:13opportunity to go back and see where she

14:15had actually lived you know the house

14:20was being torn down at the time that

14:24we’re going to build a new park in Busan

14:27for that area she told me she was seven

14:31year old after about seven to ten seven

14:35to ten yes period yeah so was the Korean

14:40Medical Officer that you met in Denver

14:43was it yet officer or just after

14:46civilian doctor officer yeah when I got

14:50to Korea I had taken some korean

14:56language stuff from one of the

15:00university but when I got to Korea and

15:03went out to the medical Bay step oh I

15:06found it one of my students back in

15:09Denver was going to be my counterpart

15:12huh at the medical Bay Steph oh you mean

15:16the Korean officer yeah Marine officer

15:18captain che and I work together there

15:23for several years I had the opportunity

15:30to cover all of the Ministry of National

15:34Defense hospitals as well as the army

15:37hospitals around the state mm I was

15:40going to mention during my two years and

15:44there several things significant happen

15:47it for if I was concerned first husan

15:52became Busan and all of the signs were

15:58changed the other thing was that when i

16:01got to career in 72 it used to take us

16:0613 hours to go from Pusan over to the

16:10hostel it Kwangju on the west side

16:14because the expressway we would take the

16:17expressway to take

16:19over to tell John and then they didn’t

16:22have an expressway all the way down the

16:25west coast and during the two years I

16:29was there they completed an expressway

16:31between Pusan and Kwang soo to let cut

16:34our travel time down to about three

16:36hours right I know what you talking

16:39about yeah so I thought that was in

16:44order and another kind of an anecdote

16:48would be on one of our visits to the

16:52Army Hospital in knobs on non Simone son

16:56don’t jump okay the hospital commander

17:00Colonel Kim is many of their many

17:03colonel kids and but captain shade

17:10mentioned to him that I had spent time

17:13in Munich as the maintenance office for

17:17the hospital in Munich journal and

17:20Colonel Kim said to me sprechen sie

17:24Deutsch I honest I do I’m yeah and it

17:34turned out he and I carried on a little

17:36conversation in German German slit with

17:39Captain check on to look looking all

17:41tried to figure out what had happened so

17:44I thought that was kind of funny that he

17:48had taken a residency with the Army

17:51Hospital in frankfurt germany for three

17:53years so he had both the american

17:58english and the german yes he had picked

18:02up and in my three years as a

18:04maintenance officer for the munich

18:06medical service area i had an

18:09opportunity to travel and see a lot of

18:12Germany also to the varian district of

18:15Germany mm-hmm ah was it Korean

18:19government retest to bring you to Korea

18:22or was it American government decision

18:26to send you to

18:28don’t know how that worked because the

18:32US government has established assistance

18:38groups in various countries which week

18:42with whom we had the you know working

18:46agreement and so after the war in part

18:53of keeping American forces over there

18:55they also were assigned as advisors to

19:01some of the areas there were they they

19:03felt they could be of help mine just

19:07happen to be one of the small ones we

19:10were stationed in Pusan where the Korean

19:13army logistical command was located yo

19:18and as such our detachment had people

19:23from Navy Air Force ordinance various

19:31other types of branches so that we would

19:36medical I say that you know from sep

19:41tember of 72 to I left in June of 74 I

19:45would the only American assigned to the

19:49Korean Medical base depo in Pusan you’re

19:52the only I was the only one there and as

19:57such whenever they wanted anybody to

20:01evaluate one of their units captain chad

20:04or i would go together to hospitals and

20:09other units around we didn’t see the big

20:13hospital and compose the cocktail and

20:15plus on military hospitals the

20:19detachments Kohanga chinhae Kunsan

20:26Kwangju

20:29notes on sochi one up the east coast to

20:35the farthest north I got was about 20

20:39miles north of the 38th parallel we had

20:43an advanced medical kind of like our

20:46mash hospital up there supporting the

20:50the people right on the front line and I

20:54had my counterpart take a picture of me

20:56go with across the 38th parallel yeah we

21:00went over from we go up to as far as

21:08Seoul and then come back down to souad

21:10go across the over there is a condom and

21:15then go up the East Coast but us the 38

21:19to the point where up near soft show

21:25that area it’s a opportunity to see

21:35all of its beauty I often said that you

21:39know that they’re mountainsides over

21:42there in the hall where is pretty is

21:43anything you’d want to see let me ask

21:50this question really what kind of job

21:54are we talking about the medical

21:56equipment repair officer what do you do

22:00actually do what do you do and what kind

22:03of leak imants are we carrying out what

22:06what are we talking about here in the

22:09army we say the medical equipment

22:12repairmen how’s everything from

22:14anesthesia to x-ray recover and broad

22:18spectrum of equipment from the pure gas

22:24type equipment like the anesthesia we do

22:28all of the electronic monitoring

22:30equipment and defibrillators the we do

22:36x-ray machines we do basically anything

22:42that you had in the hospital that is our

22:45scope of equipment repair how come you

22:48know all about those settlements and be

22:51able to repair those I took a year

22:54school in Denver when i left the

22:59computers and radar from the defense

23:02yeah they sent me to denver for a year

23:06you know and this would have been 72 73

23:14metin that time frame I had to but I did

23:18have one year of training on taking care

23:22of the hospital equipment in denver in

23:25denver that was nineteen sixty-nine

23:31he’ll be clean

23:35I went to Denver in 63 to do through

23:41that school i finished there in 64 and I

23:46went to Fort Polk Louisiana as the

23:50maintenance officer for that hospital

23:52and then Noonan in 1966 269 I was in

24:00charge of all of the equipment at the

24:02hospital and all of the dispensaries in

24:04dental clinic service from the Munich

24:08medical service area now then when I

24:12came back to to Denver I became an

24:17instructor all I became an instructor on

24:20the extra equipment there is in 1970 and

24:26so I was in Denver from 1972 junit of

24:311972 when I would deploy it over to

24:35Pusan so you are the instructor in the

24:39dunbar army army hospital with their

24:42head we had a medical maintenance cool

24:47mm-hmm on the compound at Fitzsimmons

24:51Army Hospital in Denver so I actually

24:56was an instructor at that medical

24:59maintenance cool for that time through

25:041972 1972 so that that medical

25:07maintenance cool civilian or army is

25:10army army right yes Maria young army who

25:14so you’ll learn all these things from

25:17early 60s and then you become the

25:19instructor and then you are asked to go

25:22to Korea yeah yeah I was asked if I

25:27would consider going over there it was

25:29it a two-year assignment by that time I

25:32was already past retirement to attend

25:34the

25:35and they said you know it is to operate

25:41under the ambassador’s office so

25:45therefore they allow you to take your

25:47families with you so that is how I

25:52decided to go again in 72 so you told me

25:56about just met Jay joint you add us a G

26:04day k joint US military hunt Assistance

26:11Group assistance scrub day Korea that’s

26:18Korea and that you are the power of

26:22those joint US military assistant grove

26:27right yet and there was under the

26:29control of ambassador or not in the

26:31military that we used to have what we

26:35called get-out-of-jail-free card and we

26:39also had to the white tag on our car

26:43haha that powerful how was Korean hast

26:49military hospital at the time in 70s how

26:51was it hey they were doing a very good

26:54job we have had people working with him

26:58up and them and with the training of the

27:02head I was impressed with the service

27:06that they were providing we inspected

27:10good my area was to inspect your

27:13equipment and so we were very happy with

27:18what we found when Captain che and I

27:21would go into a facility and

27:24we did get much in the line of you know

27:27actual patient care that was another

27:30branch but as far as I’m doing a good

27:34job with the equipment so that it would

27:36do its job but all the equipment was

27:39made in USA right not all no no huh tell

27:44me about those equipment made in Korea

27:46then I’m trying to remember the name

27:49some of the some of the equipment votes

27:55I think at that time most of the

27:57equipment was made outside of Korea but

27:59they were in the process of doing a lot

28:03of electronic EKG type stuff and

28:07defibrillator you mean krims will try to

28:11make it for work by doing some of that

28:14at that time they were trying to

28:16manufacture it or they were actually

28:18started manufacturing some of their own

28:20equipment uh-huh so what was their level

28:29of our repair mention i would say that

28:34they were doing a very good job because

28:36they they could utilize the medical Bay

28:40Dental people you know if they had

28:43problem and they on some of the

28:46equipment they actually had outside

28:49contractors to take care of some of the

28:52major equipment there was some of the

28:54syllabus from the unit number the

28:57company that the u.s. actually had

28:59American technician working directly in

29:04the Korean octave

29:06so was pretty good yeah wait we were

29:10always impressed with waiting did when

29:13whenever we went out to visit the

29:16facility so goes the most rewarding

29:28moments during your service in Korea

29:30from 72 to 74 I think they get the

29:35opportunity to work with them this was

29:38they were so a very gracious group of

29:41people I I was greeted warmly everywhere

29:50I went I wife and I were invited for a

29:58number vacation the hospital commander

30:00in Busan Brigadier General and they

30:07invited us to visit them and they’d like

30:10to to show their facility and so forth

30:13and he invited me and my wife children

30:17to how about that see that facility at

30:22being it was the closest one to it

30:24because the other ones were several

30:27hundred miles away but the one that

30:29boots on was probably 15 to 20 minutes

30:32away from our where we were living Paul

30:38did your family enjoy being crammed I

30:43think they enjoyed it because James with

30:52the first girl to play Little League

30:54baseball in Korea ah and it upsets some

30:59of the young Korean team that they

31:01played so they had to have her tied her

31:04hair up inside of her cap it would get

31:10upset why won’t because she given it

31:13Hugh the first girl it violently make

31:16ball over there so she was competing

31:18with the boilie competing with the boys

31:21oh because the man who was to ensure

31:26give out camping and highly a compound

31:28that she was a better ballplayer that

31:31there’s always boys although but they

31:35they didn’t want her to go down there

31:37with a big long ponytail so they made

31:41her stick it up under her hat oh I’d say

31:48that they go did you know how devastated

31:54the Korea was during the Korean War yeah

31:58in some of the villages you know I could

32:01see how it was and they showed me a

32:04number of places where they had lost

32:11everything yeah and when you or dairy

32:16was 1970s oh yeah Anna were you able to

32:21see the difference oh yeah yeah tell me

32:24about those details well I think it you

32:26know I had picture of what soul had

32:32looked like mm-hmm after the war and

32:36what it was by the time we got there

32:38they were first doing some of the first

32:41skyscraper building and so it was

32:47amazing to see how resilient

32:50I thought one of the things that amaze

32:53me early on with some of the concrete

33:00construction and was still using

33:03wheelbarrow but there they would they

33:06set up the hatchback type arrangement

33:10and the Med over there would push this

33:15thing up to where this former made the

33:17first several floor and it was amazing

33:23good to see you know what they were able

33:26to do and since then I have been over

33:31there and to see now you go into sole or

33:37tegu or booth on and you see things that

33:43are 30 stories high your work fantastic

33:49growth and testing yes hmm let’s talk

33:55about the korean defense veteran is that

33:58the right name to define the American

34:02soldier who’s stationed after the korean

34:05war in korea how do you do you like that

34:09name the acronym korean defense pattern

34:13or how do you call them call yourself

34:16well different from korean war veterans

34:19yeah well I my feeling is that they are

34:25there to support hey everyone is over

34:30there right now is to support your

34:32service I would think of them more is

34:36support truth than anything else and in

34:43a way that’s what we were trying to do

34:46when I was aired 72 we were trying to

34:48support them in and helped him get up to

34:52speed with

34:55what they had come up from so do you

35:00want to call it as a creer support

35:04veteran or crea defense veteran which

35:07one you like more better i would take

35:10the poor I Korea support veterans I i

35:14think that the weight we are there to

35:20support him in any way that we can and i

35:24think that you know from 1953 on the

35:28troop that had been over there that have

35:31been there primarily 19 what 1953 yeah

35:37right but officially the Korean War

35:41veterans they are from jun 25th to

35:45january 31st of 1955 they extended a

35:50very so anybody who’s station after

35:56februari of 1955 this term plan be

36:02categorized as a korean support veterans

36:04I think yeah how many do you think they

36:08are our prayer and support patterns here

36:10in the United States I don’t know you

36:15know they rotate the people in and out

36:17are there right some areas or form a

36:23yearly basis summer on to ear basis and

36:26so you can it’s figured i was told my

36:29wife that I guess was really loudly bit

36:33too since we talked a couple days ago I

36:36have been out of Korea now this month 40

36:40years and I always suck at my job over

36:49there was to support them in it and

36:51their activities

36:53there are many many American soldiers

36:57who station after the war in Korea and

37:00there never been they never skipped it

37:05right so it’s been like that since

37:07nineteen fifty-five there has been US

37:10soldier evens at least from to 20,000

37:15when there is a maximum around 60,000

37:19yeah and they rotate it in in six months

37:21and the officers in a year yeah so there

37:25are a lot of Korean support veterans who

37:28are living right now in the United

37:30States do you have any association or

37:34annual meetings among those crim support

37:37veterans no i don’t i had we had a

37:44medical service officer group over there

37:50silver producer but no once I retired

37:57from that the monetary I went straight

37:59into work with the leather compared to

38:06the role played by the Korean War

38:08veterans how do you think it’s important

38:11for the Korean support veterans how is

38:15it I think it everyone can feel they

38:21have done a good deed plot by being

38:24there to help in the event that did have

38:29you know another problem another problem

38:33I think that everyone who is served

38:38there can feel

38:43happy that they they were able to be

38:47there and to help them through any kind

38:52of difficulty we had military people

38:56over there supporting them they had some

38:59floods a couple years ago mm-hmm we had

39:02engineered units that were able to help

39:05them we’ve had other types of problems

39:09within the Republic that members of our

39:13military have been able to help in those

39:16respect so I think in that way yeah each

39:21person who has served there can be

39:25pleased and proud of the fact that we

39:27have served in a situation that it

39:31greatly needed um would you be willing

39:38would you be willing to join if there is

39:42association of Korean support veterans

39:44sure how can we how can we activate

39:48those people and make them into another

39:52go into the army times or one of those

39:55organization you know that has a pretty

39:59widespread and say you know just put in

40:03an advertisement say have you served in

40:08the Korean Peninsula that’s 1955 yes so

40:14are you interested in becoming a part of

40:20an organization that that recognizes

40:23that that you did a job that would

40:25something to be proud of and I think you

40:29might find a lot of people that would be

40:32willing to where should i go to do that

40:35i would think you might even talk to the

40:40army I talked at the army they have up

40:44what they call army echoes

40:46to the magazine that comes out about

40:49every three months and it tells about

40:53different organizations and it might be

40:57it’s it’s controlled by the g1 staff it

41:03depending on but I think it would be a

41:08good contact point what is Korea to you

41:11mom what is I mean you never imagined

41:15you really knew nothing about Korea

41:17before and you end up serving there for

41:21two years and then you’ve been back to

41:23Korea and now you know what career is

41:26now and what do you think why why in

41:30your life the Korea matters to you well

41:32I I I think it gave me an opportunity to

41:37do something that I felt was a lucky one

41:40accomplished I talked it I had an

41:45opportunity to work with the people over

41:48there and as I traveled around the

41:52country I had the opportunity to meet

41:55many many people not only in the

41:58military but mission work you know

42:02they’re doing work mission hospital I

42:05would talk to them and so I I was

42:11greatly impressed with my two years over

42:14there what are the things that make

42:18Korean Korean country Korea and Korean

42:24people different from other country that

42:27you had experienced what are the unique

42:29things or the differences another one is

42:32what about trip north to Seoul captain Che

42:37and I were up on mountain mountain and

42:39he said did a little thing hear any shit

42:43if you throw a rock of mountain mountain

42:47mark Kim orally hey wake up I always

42:53thought that would pretty neat because

42:55so many of the names there you know it

42:59was kim jung-soo or I’m trying to think

43:05Sophie others but you know Kim and park

43:08and the the first commanding officer of

43:14the depo when I got there was a colonel

43:17Lee and he was followed by Colonel so i

43:21think colonel so they would settle into

43:25something like that and we always had

43:29think about the family name coming first

43:32and the given name coming second i had

43:38to duck to dick from your your email

43:44address yeah right i told my wife I bet

43:46he’s going to be mr. Han Jung war Joel

43:52yes you’re right yes an interesting

43:59experience we love the food mmm in my

44:03travel sometimes I would be gone for a

44:05week you know and tell you another joke

44:11what are the first trips I made up to

44:14the north we had just been briefed about

44:20carbon monoxide poisoning Hana and the

44:24hospitals all had you know hyperbaric

44:27chambers for people who didn’t jump got

44:29carbon monoxide and it says we have a

44:32headache or something when you’re in a

44:34place be careful so the first time we

44:36were up and come come sleep on the mat

44:41about two o’clock in the morning Hey oh

44:46my god haha I went oh that’s good by the

44:51windows the rest of the evening in the

44:54next morning they said we don’t use that

44:56we use hot water circulating through the

44:59floor

45:00haha yeah well but the old idea is

45:04having their the tubing going through

45:07there with the fire all one-sided and

45:09then chimney on the other so they did

45:11when they’re warm to play it made a

45:15believer of me so but you know we were

45:21deleting bulgogi you know call big I had

45:29acquired a taste for Tim kicked you but

45:32I feel the weather the family that did

45:36that uh-huh Jane Jane talked to me about

45:42her her time in Pusan and then she went

45:45back with you and then she was not

45:49recognizing the changes to be made yeah

45:53yeah it’s so different you know when we

45:57were there haeundae beach was right

46:03there it puts on three stores is bigoted

46:07building there now yeah the Korean

46:15government is running program called

46:17revisit Korea for the Korean War

46:19veterans and they are getting old and we

46:22want to continue to invite the American

46:26soldiers were stationed in America so I

46:28think it will be Korean service or

46:32support veterans that will be included

46:34in the revisit program do you think it

46:37will be a popular program for them I I

46:40think you know where I younger I would

46:44certainly take it up and then I would

46:47certainly go back over there right I

46:49said I saw the country from one end to

46:53the other you know from all the way down

46:55here kg though the southwest corner up

47:01to structure

47:03yeah and the people that I met in the

47:09hospital medical units work be fantastic

47:12hmm now the Korea is known for one of

47:16the very specialized medical zone for

47:23example plastic surgeries many Chinese

47:25woman coming into Korea and we are known

47:29for the you know the stock stomach

47:33cancer operation because we have so many

47:36stomach cancer occurring there in Korea

47:38not we are pretty good in medical yeah

47:42yeah we were always concerned that

47:46because of the hot food you know would

47:50be a contributing factor to a lot a lot

47:53of the trolls yes a property oh yeah

47:56handsome as I was yes it yep it’s

48:05different and it’s something that was

48:08very much of interest diet but we wanted

48:12to see what would and I’m very happy

48:16that I had the opportunity I’m very

48:20happy to meet Jane your daughter so that

48:22I can be here doing interview or with

48:25you so I want to thank her and I want to

48:28thank you for your service any other

48:31message that you want to leave to this

48:32interview well I would just say that I

48:36think anyone who has served there even

48:40after the war can be proud of what they

48:43have done and I really feel that we have

48:47been there to support you in whatever

48:50you were needing we help you with your

48:57any kind of weather problems or floods

49:02or hyphens or anything and we’re there

49:08to support you if you needed to

49:13kill the young man up north here where

49:17he can go yeah yeah I think that’s very

49:20important message that we need to learn

49:23so can you say what is the legacy of the

49:29Korean support veterans yeah I think

49:35they have kept the Korean Peninsula safe

49:39within 50 years I think our presence

49:43there it’s been a deterrent a

49:49significant deterrent to someone to

49:53think twice before he would try to come

49:56south I think that any of our people

50:00that are serving their to be proud of

50:03that part of that’s very important that

50:08is I I think that really conveys the

50:12real importance of what contribution has

50:15been made by the Korean support veterans

50:18or the Korean Defense veterans and I

50:21really appreciate that you pointed out

50:24that important fact that that the the

50:29service of the US soldiers after the war

50:33actually has secured the safety and

50:36stability of the Korean Peninsula I

50:39think