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The Women Outside: Korean Women and the U.S. Military is a 60 minute 1995 documentary film created by film/video makers Hye Jung Park and J.T. Takagi. The film details the experiences of South Korean women who work in U.S. military camptown brothels, bars, or clubs, exposing how the South Korean government and U.S. military mutually benefit from the sexual exploitation of women.
Naval Air Station Lee Field. Naval Air Station Lee Field was a United States Navy air base that opened on September 11, 1940, in Green Cove Springs, Florida to support the World War II efforts. The Air Station was on the St. Johns River in Clay County, Florida. The Air Station and Navy base was on 1,560 acres.
Camp Stanley is a former U.S. Army military camp located just east of the city of Uijeongbu, South Korea. The camp is part of the Red Cloud Garrison which is composed of Army installations near the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Camp Stanley began as a tent city in 1954. The first U.S. Army helicopters moved to the camp later that year and ...
Camp Liberty Bell. Camp LaGuardia (US Army Airfield) - closed. Camp Long - closed. Camp Long Jon. Camp Market - closed. Camp McNabb (Jeju Island) – closed. Camp Mercer, Seoul - 44th Engineering Battalion. Camp Mobile. Camp Mosier (U.S. 43rd Mash Unit and 377th Air Ambulance) - closed.
In August 1999, a Korean club owner in Dongducheon was accused of trafficking in women by bringing more than 1000 Philippine and Russian women into South Korea for U.S. military bases, but a South Korean judge overturned the warrant. [88] In 2000, five foreign women locked in a brothel died in a fire in Gunsan. [16]
The yellow area at the top is Camp Coiner. Yongsan Garrison ( Korean: 용산기지; Hanja: 龍山基地 ), meaning "dragon hill garrison ", is an area located in the Yongsan District of central Seoul, South Korea. The site served as the headquarters for U.S. military forces stationed in South Korea, known as United States Forces Korea (USFK ...
The need to train the tens of thousands of men entering the Army Air Corps in 1942 led to the decision by the service to open additional Basic Training Centers (BTC). In June 1942, St. Petersburg, Florida was selected for a BTC, and with time of the essence, the War Department leased hotels, apartment houses, and other miscellaneous building to accommodate trainees.
Smaller numbers of overseas military bases are operated by China, Iran, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates . The United States is the largest operator of military bases abroad, with 38 "named bases" [ note 1] with active duty, national guard, reserve, or civilian personnel as of September 30, 2014.