Camp Humphreys
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Sep 25, 2026
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On the 25th of September 2005, sex workers in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, organised in the Democratic Coalition of Sex Workers, reached the first collective bargaining agreement with brothel owners in the country's history.
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Over the next five years, the union had grown to encompass some 220 members in the vicinity of the US Army Base Camp Humphrey, and it had achieved improvements for its members in contracts on pay, working hours, annual leave, disciplinary procedures, and even how to pay back loans from employers.
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Vago MuradianHOST
The issue is or maybe right based based on the conversations that I've been having with people is almost half of the U.S. forces there could leave.
Vago MuradianHOST
Where do they go? Because the United States doesn't does the United States have housing for 40,000 more people? Or if we want to ship them to the Indo-Pacific, it costs a lot of money to build Camp Humphreys for the amount of people that we have.
Vago MuradianHOST
I mean, obviously, there is some spillover space at that facility as well.
Vago MuradianHOST
How is that going to work? I mean, are folks tracking this at all? Is, you know, they're going to be tens of billions more dollars? I mean, I'm sure members of Congress, you know, would compete to, you know, host these troops.
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It carries 9,000 gallons of fuel across improved and unimproved roads at convoy speeds, replacing the legacy M1062 tanker and partially replacing M967 tanker trailers, with an acquisition objective of 1,803 systems and full operational capability projected for fiscal year 2034.
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The Army is also cutting its dependence on trucks with the Early Entry Fluid Distribution System, which received its own conditional material release June 6 after a first-unit equipped cycle with the 339th Quartermaster Company at Camp Humphreys, South Korea.
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It can lay up to 25 miles of tactical pipeline a day to a maximum length of 50 miles, moving approximately 850,000 gallons of fuel or 650,000 gallons of raw water in a 20-hour period.
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Pumping bulk liquids directly from offshore platforms to the tactical edge, the Army says, cuts reliance on vulnerable road transport.
Rich LaMonicaHOST
So I think they closed probably 15-ish, 17-ish, something like that.
Rich LaMonicaHOST
They moved everything down to Camp Humphreys and stuff.
Rich LaMonicaHOST
I'm sure they changed names of the schools when they moved them and such.
Rich LaMonicaHOST
So a lot of people like you who were able to say, I graduated Saaz or Sam's over there and hung out by the Dragon Hill, you lost a little bit of your past.
Anne WrightGUEST
And when you really count in probably the 15,000 family members that are with them, that's about, you know, heading toward 45,000 people.
Anne WrightGUEST
Camp Humphreys is now the biggest, I think it's the biggest military installation we have in the world.
Anne WrightGUEST
What's it all about? The tensions in Korean Peninsula and the region, part of it's caused, well, I'd say most of it's caused by the U.S.
Anne WrightGUEST
and all the military exercises, the war games, the war practice that we have.
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Igualmente, aterradores son los misiles balísticos dirigidos hacia bases estadounidenses.
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Algunos son interceptados, sin embargo, otros logran pasar y destruir secciones enteras de Camp Humphreys, base militar de Estados Unidos en territorio surcoreano.
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El conteo de muertos aumenta con cada segundo.
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El presidente Trump autoriza ataques aéreos de precisión contra instalaciones críticas en Corea del Norte.
Justin HoweGUEST
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Justin HoweGUEST
South Korea outside of Camp Humphreys, and that's, uh, you know, um, Don Kelly, George Beck, Chris Winston, and, um, and Mike Hoffman.
Justin HoweGUEST
They're four guys that I used to hang out with at VFW, and they're a hoot.
Justin HoweGUEST
They're all different characters in their own might, but, like, when you put them in a room together, something happens, and it's a good time.