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Originally Posted by Trip_Wire
I was an unassigned replacement in the 'pipeline.' At Camp Drake I asked for assignment to the 25th ID because I had served with them in Japan on Occupation duty. No assignment! 
I asked again at the repple depot in Pusan and was granted my wish. The train from the Pusan area to the MLR was something else. No seats, just two wooden slabs/platforms running the length of the car like a lower and upper berth. When it got dark they pulled the blinds, saying that local guerrillas like to take pot shots at the windows.
People got off the train at various stop fro the outskirts of Pusan to the MLR. They were usually met by a 2 1/2 ton and an NCO and driver.
Of course my trip was in 1951 where the COL's was in 1950. The trip to the MLR was short in 1950 at the Nakdong River on the outskirts of Pusan. My unit was North of Seoul a little longer train ride. |
Dad went over at the onset in 1950 with the 25th. He loved occupation duty in Japan and in fact after his 12 month tour in Korea, he asked to be reassigned to Japan, but, he had been overseas since 1947 so they shipped him back to the States. My Dad was from upstate New York and was used to cold weather, but, he told me that he never was more cold than his time in Korea.