Marine engineers 'ecstatic' about results of exercise with S. Koreans
Otis Willie
(EXCERPT) By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition,
Friday, March 21, 2003
TAEGU, South Korea — When troops go through the rigors of a field
exercise in South Korea, they don’t usually emerge “ecstatic.”
But that’s the word coming from a platoon of U.S. Marine engineers who
just finished a drill with their South Korean counterparts near
Pohang.
The leathernecks of Company A, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, out of
Camp Hansen, Okinawa, spent a month in South Korea. They endured the
hardening of a mountain warfare course; set up battlefield obstacles,
then blew them up; and worked through the challenges of assembling a
medium girder bridge, or MGB, that can span a gap in the route of
advance.
Along the way, they also became the first Marine unit in year...
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Otis Willie
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