Non- Combat Veterans.

Ccrussell said

Joined the Air Force in 1979.
Was proud to wear the uniform. Was sent to Korea in 1981. North Koreans had a Sam missle site placement that made the South Koreans and USA nervous. Thought the whole thing was going to blow up. This in the first 2 weeks of arriving there. Was a little scared, but thought proudly that that was what I was serving for. It was resolved with the north Koreans moving their missiles.
I was in aircraft support.

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I also joined in 1979 and was in Kunsan during 1981. Our base fired live rounds at enemy ships weekly. Two airmen died under mysterious circumstances off base that year. Once, the Korean civilians asked us what the US was going to do. We asked them “about what?” Then they told us the NK just fired missiles at one of our SR-71s. They thought the US would cut and run away (of course we didn’t). One Captain was killed at Taegu that year from a building explosion (they leaked over 2 million gallons of JP-4 in 20 years and it finally blew and destroyed 5 buildings). While not technically a war zone, it certainly wasn’t a peace zone either.