KATUSA-U.S. Army friendship week
A U.S. soldier drives toward the basket past a KATUSA soldier during the final of a basketball competition as part of events marking the KATUSA-U.S. Army Friendship Week at Camp Casey in Dongducheon, 41 kilometers north of Seoul, on June 1, 2023. 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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