The most interesting pic was of a SF soldiers NVG on the ground. He gonna be fucked. But at least the group won't be on lockdown until they're found.
Conscription in South Korea has existed since 1957 and requires male citizens
between the ages of 18 and 35 to perform compulsory military service.[1][2]
Women are not required to perform military service, but they may voluntarily
join the military.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_South_Koreai saw some messed up behaviora in the time I spent in the Korean command center at Osan AB. The military are mostly non-volunteers. They do their time to fulfill the mandatory enlistment, and then move on with their lives. Their entire mindset is, "I'm going to do what I'm told to do -- no more, no less."
One example: I watched as the Korean soldiers assigned to monitor air operations pressed "print" on their computer screens every single time an aircraft's status or other data changed. Someone told them to capture the information as it gets updated, and that's what they did.
They went through the entire 3-week supply of perforated high-speed printer paper the first day! We had to add laser printers next to the workstations they used that didn't require perforated 132-character wide paper so they could keep killing more trees unnecessarily.
We had to source a paper tape punch plus a spare then engineer a driver for it to run on the Sun OS workstations. The Air Tasking Order (ATO) was transmitted either via SIPRNet, or through a direct radio network connection from the workstation, to every non-Korean unit participating in the exercise. The formatted message, ATOCONF, was received by remote Sun workstations for them to view, copy and print as needed. The Koreans communicated with their troops over radio exclusively, and none of the remote units had workstations to connect to the IP or radio networks directly. So when the ATO was approved for release, the Korean soldier in the server room would print it to the paper tape punch -- the tape looks like what came out of a ticker tape machine people used to watch for stock market updates.. He would rapidly wrap the tape around his thumb and pinky in a figure-8, then run it down the hall to the radio room. The ATO was then fed into a paper tape reader and transmitted to whomever was to receive it. I don't think I want to know what happened next!
We also had to install 5-1/4" floppy drives attached to some of the Sun workstations, because their PC's did not have 3-1/2" floppy drives.
The US was restricted from installing anything at the command center that "forced" the Koreans to upgrade anything they were using.
Even if we could demonstrate a better way of doing things with a simple procedure change, we were told to keep our mouths shut. The cooperation agreements were very strict, and anything we changed, anything at all, could be construed as breaking that agreement.
It's not shocking that South Korean soldiers are doing something that appears wrong or not smart. That's how they do things. Soldiers do what they are told -- nothing more, nothing less.