you have to be 19 to enlist in the army in korea.
you have to be 19 to enlist in the army in korea.
how old do you have to be to enlist in the army in korea?
19
the army advertised for colored men to enlist as stevedores. married men who agreed to support their families and who were otherwise qualified were acceptable. recruits were to be sent to newport news, virginia without benefit of being issued uniforms. many african americans applied to join the army on the front lines but were often turned away, as positions in black fighting regiments were limited and in the regular army only cooks and bakers with credentials were accepted, while only chauffeurs and automobile men were accepted in the medical department or quartermaster's corps, making stevedore positions desirable. by june 1918, the army was seeking white men for the stevedore service. men "accustomed to handling colored labor" were preferred; potential enlistees were required to present a letter of acceptance from the commander of the stevedore regiment to enlist. the army medical department subsequently observed that the quality of the recruits was below standard. "few had had much education, and as a group they were regarded as 'ignorant negroes of the poorest class, both physically and mentally.' they were in questionable health from the outset, no physical examinations having been administered at mobilization camps to weed out those who were ill or in any other way unfit for service." new troops often reported without warning, wearing little more than rags because they had been incorrectly told the army would issue uniforms when they arrived. stevedores were described in december 1917 as wearing a variety of uniforms from different branches of the army or, in some cases, blue dungaree suits and as being unarmed.
stevedore operations, american expeditionary forces
korean nationalist historiography is connected with "popular archaeology" in south korea, where television archaeologists competing for ratings make ever more-expansive claims to the limits of ancient korea. for example, in 1993 the "korea daily" sponsored a trip of archaeologist son bo-gi of yonsei university to ulan bator, mongolia where son claimed that he discovered a new goguryeo stone fortress which proved that goguryeo extended beyond the greater khingan range. korean bronze age art has been connected by popular archaeologists, for example, to that of the scythians, supposedly proving the "arrival of a superior northern race" into the korean peninsula. korean journalists and researchers also regularly travel along silk road sites in central asia searching for korea's "altaic roots". choe nam-seon, writing in the territorial tradition of shin chae-ho, argued that korea was the center of the purham culture which extended deep into central asia. according to choe, the world was divided into indo-european, chinese, and "părk" cultures ("purham munhwa kwŏn"), the last of whom was a korean shinto-like religion that spread from the black sea through the caspian sea, tian shan, the altai mountains, down through korea, japan, and okinawa. choe alleged that dangun was universally worshiped within this super-culture. however, according to chizuko allen, choe did not examine the local cultures of any countries besides korea, china, and japan, and based this theory on phonetic similarities of geographical features. choe's purham culture theory has since been adopted by the independence activist and "korean studies movement" leader an chae-hong.
korean nationalist historiography