![]() ![]() ![]() The South Koreans grimly accept the projected withdrawal of some 30,000 U.S. and South Korean forces to operate together under near combat conditions. Duncan to inspect the exercise and to repeat American military promises in talks with government leaders in Seoul and Tokyo.ĭuncan, at a news conference Tuesday, proclaimed the exercise "a clear demonstration of our ability to rapidly augment forces in Korea" and a way of proving the ability of U.S. The Pentagon dispatched Deputy Defense Secretary Charles W. Normally, the exercises are closed to the press but the one this year has been thrown wide open to assure maximum publicity and more than 300 reporters from South Korea, Japan, Western Europe and the United States are observing. The large infusion of troops and aircraft from distant points is designed to reassure the South Koreans and Japanese that despite the withdrawal American forces can rush back into the country in time to help deter a sudden invasion by North Korean armies. contingents to remain will be one Air Force and two Marine squadrons and an Army intelligence unit. ground forces are to leave here no later than the end of 1982. It is the third in a series of Joint U.S.-South Korean exercises planned several years ago but it has taken on a special significance this year because of the impending withdrawal of American ground forces.Īccording to the schedule announced last year, all U.S. They are part of "Team Spirit '78" which military officials say is the largest peacetime exercise ever staged by American forces overseas. military forces are engaged in a highly visible demonstration of the proposition that they can help defend South Korean after American ground forces are withdrawn beginning late this year. With this unusually large deployment from abroad, U.S. There is an infantry task force from Hawaii, a Lance missile group from Oklahoma, a Special Forces unit from North Carolina, a naval task force from the 7th Fleet, and some National Guardsmen from Utah. ![]()
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