General weighs accompanied tours in Korea

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General weighs accompanied tours in Korea
Staff report
Posted : Friday Feb 1, 2008 10:13:05 EST

Gen. B.B. Bell, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, said in an Army press release that he planned to speak with Defense Department leaders this week about making more assignments to the peninsula accompanied tours.

Only certain assignments in South Korea are two-year accompanied tours.

“We contribute to a continuation of this separation of service members from their families,” he said in the release, pointing out that “almost 90 percent of my force is still on a one-year unaccompanied tour.”

The U.S. assignment policy has not changed in South Korea for generations, yet the basis for making the decision for unaccompanied tours has changed tremendously.

South Korea has made significant economic progress in the last 30 years and is now the 11th-largest economy in the world, according to the release.


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