Tour to Kunsan Air Force Base in Korea

The day after MSgt celebrated the birth of his Son Jason and learned he would be reporting to Kunsan Air Force Base in Korea for a year. I can only imagine the stress he felt about leaving his new family and moving to another country! He had never even been out of the US.

Kunsan Air Base assigned to the Pacific Air Forces Seventh Air Force . It is one of two major Air Force installations operated by the United States in Korea, the other being Osan Air Base.

The history of Kunsan Air Base dates back to 1938, when Japanese forces occupying Korea built a base near Kunsan for fighter-interceptor aircraft.
The United States first used the base in 1945, but on a very small scale. From 1945 to 1950, the Army and later the Air Force intermittently operated small detachments from Kunsan, with these detachments maintaining liaison aircraft. At most these detachments contained a handful of people. When the United States pulled its combat units out of the Republic of Korea in 1949, it left only a Military Assistance Advisory Group in the country, and the periodic detachments at Kunsan became even more infrequent.

Two 80th Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcons taxis toward the runway for an exercise.