Camp Humphreys Archive

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

How Small?

Life at Humphreys is like life in a very small town.
You’re constantly running into people you know, people you live next door to, people in the unit.
There’s just nowhere you can go incognito when you need a little private time.
[case in point]
Heading to Osan the other day our old hooptie turned in front of me.
Same [...]

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

True Confessions

[outside the KATUSA Snack Bar on base]
I’ve had this post written in my head for weeks now. But every time I sit down to write it out, I get stuck. Something holds me back.
(It also doesn’t help that every time I think I’m finally ready…the dogs want in, or out as the case may be. [...]

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The Propaganda of Progress

Part of my routine includes grabbing the weekly base paper, The Morning Calm.
It covers all the Army news in Korea & usually it’s filled with stories promoting Army team-building, the Army family covenant and Army-KoreanĀ relations – along with the ever-present,Ā full-page ad promoting Korea’s first self-serve frozen yogurt shop, Tuttiyogo.
But this week they covered news we [...]