Ministry of National Defense Republic of Korea

Facilities engineering officials of the armed forces, the Marines and U.S. forces, Korea, put their heads together to improve recovery ability for damaged airfields.

For Key Resolve this year, “Airfield damage recovery tactical discussion 2015” was held at the Air Force Operations Command(AFOC) on February 16 to enhance combined and/or joint operational capability by developing joint recovery ability for damaged airfields at an Air Terminal Supply Point (ATSP) site. 

The Air Force stressed the importance of joint training for runway damage recovery with the Army and Navy to improve engineering support during combined and/or joint operations. And they mainly discussed the ATSP engineering support and how to develop the joint operational capability between the military forces if the warfare continues. 

In addition, around 70 relevant military officials shared a lively give-and-take based on mutual understanding about a variety of matters such as runway whose importance increases by the day as the basis of air power; the Navy’s recovery planning for harbor facilities; and bridge recovery plans for the Army engineer element.

Major General Hwang Sung-Jin, assistant commandant of the AFOC who conducted the tactical discussion, said, “Combined and joint operations are increasingly important day by day. And we’ve improved mission capability in each military’s facilities engineering area through this tactical discussion. I’d like to request that each service make a wide range of efforts to enhance jointness.”

By Seung-Bok, Lee <yhs920@dema.mil.kr>

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