So today I woke up and went to get so internets at the PX. The PX is like a store. Theres also a food court there. Theres always a basking robbins and burger king at PX food courts here for some reason. Also theres a taco bell and anthonys pizza. So yea i went there to use the internets. I didn't eat there though, i went to the Dfac(dining facility) to eat. Its like the main dining area for troops and its free with your orders. Its like a college food plan food court type deal. Its solid. Most of the soldiers are gone on the weekend because they get weekend passes and go and have fun at the bars off post.

Theres an area called the ville that has like 70 bars and clubs. Officers aren't allowed to go to the ville at night because bad things happen there and because I am one in training i can't go. Not that I even wanna go there. Its just funny. Another place i can't go to is hooker hill. i wonder why i can't go to hooker hill. ha i mega digress

Anyway today me and my sponsor went to Seoul. Hes a pretty chill dude and he has a lot of knowledge so i got to learn a lot. The train takes like an hour to get to seoul from the base. The train station is literrally a block away from the base. O yea one thing i think i failed to add. It rains all the time. Its monsoon season so its just always raining. Its like that scene in forrest gump. its not terrible though because its warm outside. So anyway yea we went to the War museum of Korea. It was pretty cool. Its massive and really impressive on par with some of those museums up in the Chi. Except its better because its free.

But anyway about half the museum was dedicated to the Korean war because thats a big thing around these parts. It was a very very good museum and a lot of the signs and movies were in English as well. Its kinda funny though because in America the Korean war is kinda forgotten and put off to the side. Its really gets no history book love. sometimes i feel like people don't wanna talk about it because it really didn't go all that well. And if people do wanna talk about it they forgot that the South Korean army (ROK) was there too. So its cool to get a different perspective on things.

South Korea is a pretty impressive country with a crazy amount of high rise apartmnets(easily in the hundreds and probably in the thousands), trains, and elextrical wires in a super hilly environment. Its crazy that they can build all of these things in this terrain. But its even crazier to think they did this in the last 60 years because during the war there country was leveled. I mean there infrastructure from what i have seen is way better then anything in Wisconsin. The trains are clean and neat and so are the stations, and the roads are smooth. but again i digress

I feel like i should donate some time to talk about some military stuff. So anyway up in south Korea all males have to serve a minimum of 2 years. If you are Korean and really high speed you can test to get into the US army through the KATUSA program. Its basically Koreans in the US army. I guess conditions in the Korean army aren't that great( i mean it is a conscript army), and even the KATUSAs get paid only 70 bucks a month(they can't even eat taco bell on the regular), so ya. In glad to be in the US army. I mean i get paid that much in 2 days and im just a lowly cadet.

So as you know North Korea doesn't like the south and stuff ya know. And last year some shit happened were they sunk a south korea ship and also bombed an island. So theres some tension. Its kinda like the cold war mentality out here. The North has whole division of field artillery aimed at the south ready to hurl 500,000 rounds per hour with one command and vice versa. So i guess you wonder if i cadet hernandez am in any danger, i really doubt it. So yes the North has all this artillery but for one they won't attack because they only have enough supplies to sustain an attack for 2 to 3 days then there fuel and ammo runs out. Also there artillery will only get one or two shots off before submarines and rockets destroy them. Also we have air defense artillery that can shoot down rounds and rockets. On top of that there are bunkers as well. I mean don't get me wrong the North can do some damage and everyone in Korea has something aimed at em it just prolly won't happen and if it does it won't happen for long.

Ok so personally my sponsor said that ill probably be doing some classes for the privates and stuff this week. A class on operations orders and land navigation so thats pretty cool. Umm and it looks like im going to something called the mud festival next week and probably a few clubs with the other cadets and west pointers. Ill post pictures later cuz im lazy right now.