KATUSA-U.S. Army friendship week

KATUSA-U.S. Army friendship week

Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, delivers a congratulatory speech during the opening ceremony of the KATUSA-U.S. Army Friendship Week at the U.S. Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, on June 10, 2024. KATUSA is the acronym for Korean Augmentation to the United States Army, a program launched in the early stages of the Korean War to provide the U.S. forces with South Korean soldiers who knew the local terrain and language. (Yonhap)

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