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Old July 6th, 2012, 11:15 AM
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Fallout Re: South Korea - oob 20

Outside of the "Special Forces" which are all airborne/halo jump qualified, you also have the JSSF and Marine airborne units. South Korea has it's own lift capacity to support sustained airborne ops and can post that info from an avaition source if needed. The first ref covers all of the above though and equipment listings are current i.e. ROK operates 180 K2 tanks which is correct, etc. etc. The non Special Forces info you seek (Though they are large composite units in of themselves.) is near the bottom of the first ref, again, under the JSSF section where you will also find the ROK Marines with their airborne units.
The following two refs are from a Pathfinders website out of the UK, that shows the various unit patches, insignia, jump pins with some light unit background information and both HALO and regular jump pics.
Also the first ref. is more current but, in line with the Global Security site info though it is a little older. There still is no peace treaty between the U.S., ROK and D.P.R.K. It should pointed out that as of 2015 South Korea will be in charge of all combat operations in Korea.
http://z9.invisionfree.com/21c/ar/t10313.htm
http://www.pathfindergroupuk.com/Win...licOfKorea.pdf
http://wings.pathfindergroupuk.com/P...20Korea_v3.pdf


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Pat
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