Just up the road and a few blocks away from Yongsan (in 1969) was the main entrance to Camp Coiner. Being the "Home of Zero Defects" was to be questioned yet the communication networks that the battalion set up worked. To be called on in a combat function no doubt the 304th would have come through.

Back then the gate guard checked ID the city was Seoul was yours if you had a pass. A few feet from the gate one would be met by "Slicky boys". These were the local guys that had everything for sale a young soldier needed like a carved wooden hand with the middle finger pointing north. Rolex watches were sale priced at "five dalla - Can do?" "No can do!" "Girly pictures - can do?" Well, since the military allow Playboy Magazine for sale in the PX girly pictures weren't all that popular.

The gate at Camp Coiner was real busy close to 11p.m. Taxis were everywhere dumping off drunk GI's returning from the hot night spots around Seoul. Curfew was city wide. NOTHING moved in the streets except military vehicles and local police after eleven. If the GI wasn't spending the evening with a hooker he had better be in his hootch. Being outside the walls and on the streets after curfew was unthinkable.

Just up the road and a few blocks away from Yongsan (in 1969) was the main entrance to Camp Coiner. Being the "Home of Zero Defects" was to be questioned yet the communication networks that the battalion set up worked. To be called on in a combat function no doubt the 304th would have come through.

Back then the gate guard checked ID the city was Seoul was yours if you had a pass. A few feet from the gate one would be met by "Slicky boys". These were the local guys that had everything for sale a young soldier needed like a carved wooden hand with the middle finger pointing north. Rolex watches were sale priced at "five dalla - Can do?" "No can do!" "Girly pictures - can do?" Well, since the military allow Playboy Magazine for sale in the PX girly pictures weren't all that popular.

The gate at Camp Coiner was real busy close to 11p.m. Taxis were everywhere dumping off drunk GI's returning from the hot night spots around Seoul. Curfew was city wide. NOTHING moved in the streets except military vehicles and local police after eleven. If the GI wasn't spending the evening with a hooker he had better be in his hootch. Being outside the walls and on the streets after curfew was unthinkable.