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Camp Coiner(188 total words in this text)(3806 Reads)  The major contracting location in Seoul is Yongsan Garrison. Major contracting offices in Seoul at Yongsan and the Far East District compound are located close to subway stations. Camp Coiner is tucked into a corner of Yongsan, the US military installation in Seoul. The Assistant Chief of Staff Acquisition Management is a staff office within both United States Forces Korea and Eighth United States Army. The Staff Principal also is Commander of the US Army Contracting Command and the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting. The office is physically located on Camp Coiner in Yongsan in the annex of building 1130. The 106th Med Det (VS) sponsors Overseas Deployment Training for USAR units, and deploys its PROFIS personnel annually. These personnel live in a field environment when deploying to Korea. ODT units deploy to Korea in conjunction with a major USFK exercise. Typically these individuals fly into Osan AFB or Seoul Kimpo International airport. The exercise Joint Reception Center provides transportation to Camp Coiner. These individuals usually spend one night in tent city during in-processing before being released to the 106th. |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
