[KOREAN-WAR-L:11362] Re: MASH ethics

[John C Cheek <johncheek1@juno.com>]

Ed, I'll take your word on that. As I said before, I was just a doggie in
the Army Security Agency. I spent the last three months of the conflict
on the MLR in a listening bunker. I was in that bunker when a lot of good
Marines paid the ultimate price for defending our sector in what you call
the Uijonbu - Seoul corridor. My Battalion headquarters, the 303rd
Communications Reconnaissance Battalion, was located inside the I-Corps
Headquarters just west of Uijonbu.
J. Charles Cheek (John)

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:59:18 -0600 Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe2@korean-war.com>
writes:
> John C.,
> 
>  >>At 09:43 PM 2/12/2004, you wrote:
> >Taking a hill just to prove we could is just "an investment in 
> management 
> >ego" and is, in my mind, criminal.<<
> 
> If that were the case, I'd agree but Pork Chop Hill and the other 
> hills in 
> that complex were of tactical importance at the time since they gave 
> U.N. 
> troops command of the river valley to the north.  It was important 
> to hold 
> this terrain for the next planned advance -- which never happened 
> because 
> the cease-fire talks began.
> 
>   Conversely, this same hill complex was important to the Chinese 
> and North 
> Koreans because it would give them command of the river valley to 
> the 
> south, plus they needed to keep us from controlling there planned 
> advances, 
> which included an attack down the Uijonbu-Seoul corriidor.  Thus 
> this 
> entire piece of terrain became some of the most fought over in the 
> world in 
> the next two years.
> 
> Ed. 
> 
> 
> 


        Stay safe, buddy.
        J. Charles Cheek   (John)
        Author of "Stay Safe, Buddy" (ISBN 159286631X)
        A Novel about Humor & Horror during the Korean War
        www.authorsden.com/jcharlescheek

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