The U.S. Special Forces secret weapon against North Korea: Detachment K

In the event that the balloon goes up on the Korean peninsula, U.S. Special Forces has a secret weapon in South Korea that has been poised and ready to roll since shortly after the Korean War.  Special Forces Detachment Korea (SFDK) has made a long-term quiet contribution to strategic military-to-military relations between America and South […]

Special Forces Detachment Korea: New missions, new infiltrations (Part 16)

Read Part 15 HERE The 1990s brought good times and bad, with some Det K members being relieved for cause. But as one Det K soldier remarked about the time, “Keep your mouth shut, do some ‘hooah’ PT every day, and the world will keep turning is always my recommendation whenever an SF soldier finds […]

Special Forces Detachment Korea: The Det gets orphaned in Korea! (Part 8)

Read Part 7 Here As a Confucian society, one of the problems that many in the South Korean military faced was, and continues to persist, that they are not free thinkers. Their Special Forces are task organized like 12-man American Special Forces teams but their mission is more direct action than unconventional warfare. This makes […]