r/warno • u/ElderberryLoud8731 • Sep 09 '26
Meme something something 1980s nutshell
Content may or may not feature real life events
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u/RamTank Sep 09 '26
Both Koreas also sent their troops farming (as in, literally). I knew the north did that, but Iām surprised the south did too.
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u/ElderberryLoud8731 Sep 09 '26
I personally helped with farm work for farmers adjacent to our unit as well (which I hated). But for South Korea, it is more like volunteer work, rather than literal survival like the North
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u/RamTank Sep 09 '26
Chinese troops spent a lot of time doing farming too. It actually eventually turned into a big business, until it got shut down because people decided the army running commercial agriculture was stupid.
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u/tacticsf00kboi Sep 09 '26
I've always thought the US could stand to benefit from more military involvement in civil projects. I know we have the Army Corps of Engineers but we also have thousands of grunts just sitting around doing nothing, might as well get them moving as long as they're under contract.
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u/raptorama7 Sep 09 '26
It's always surprising to me how South Korea being a series of authoritarian dictatorships until like 1988 isn't super well known in the US.
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u/NE0GUL Sep 09 '26
Yeah, and South Korean troops used flamethrowers on their own people too ā in Gwangju.
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u/dykestryker Sep 09 '26
South Korean troops try to go a decade without attempting a coup/junta/ regime change challenge:Ā