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<p>[QUOTE="charley, post: 8337592, member: 5372"]First, I have to apologize for post form. Somehow I hit the wrong button, and my comments show up as yours, when expanding your post. Anyway, at that time, the World Bank , via the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Finance Corporation, were building the infrastructure of what would become the powerhouse of the Bank Of Korea. General Park was the absolute control authority and training and preferred KATUSA employees both active and discharged, because of their language superiority and education level and experience working with foreign nationals, vis the Armed Forces. Many of the emerging industries preferred KATUSA. I can recall when I went to Seoul to buy the 1970 Gold Set, and it was very usual to see KATUSA employees. General Park loved his military and his KATUSA, and especially MACV assigned Korean Troops, and they always got first dibs on the preferred industrial and manufacturing positions, such as Mint product support factories.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, your first observation is right. Was it compressor/hydraulic, or electric belt/gear driven?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="charley, post: 8337592, member: 5372"]First, I have to apologize for post form. Somehow I hit the wrong button, and my comments show up as yours, when expanding your post. Anyway, at that time, the World Bank , via the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Finance Corporation, were building the infrastructure of what would become the powerhouse of the Bank Of Korea. General Park was the absolute control authority and training and preferred KATUSA employees both active and discharged, because of their language superiority and education level and experience working with foreign nationals, vis the Armed Forces. Many of the emerging industries preferred KATUSA. I can recall when I went to Seoul to buy the 1970 Gold Set, and it was very usual to see KATUSA employees. General Park loved his military and his KATUSA, and especially MACV assigned Korean Troops, and they always got first dibs on the preferred industrial and manufacturing positions, such as Mint product support factories. Anyway, your first observation is right. Was it compressor/hydraulic, or electric belt/gear driven?[/QUOTE]
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