Announcement

KDVA Supports MOAA Charities and NCOA Annual Conference

KDVA and our close partner, KATUSA Veterans Association (KVA), will be sponsoring two major events that support Veterans during the 70th anniversary of the ROK-U.S. Alliance in 2023.

KDVA and KVA will be the โ€œConference Platinum Sponsorโ€ (top sponsor) for theย Non Commissioned Officers Association (NCOA)ย Annual Conference in Texas on July 18-21, 2023.

KDVA and KVA will be the โ€œ4 Star Presenting Sponsorโ€ (top sponsor) for theย Military Officers Association of Americaโ€™s (MOAA)ย 19th Annual MOAA Charities Golf Classic in Maryland on May 22, 2023.

A great strength of the U.S. military is the strong bond and working relationship between our officers and our enlisted service members.

KDVA and KVA are proud to partner with MOAA and NCOA to raise awareness about the importance of enlisted and officer contributions to our Nation, our Veterans and their Families, and the ROK-U.S. Alliance.

We will provide details about each event soon.

Please consider joining KDVA as we support the ROK-U.S. Alliance and our Veterans,ย https://kdva.vet/join-kdva/.ย 


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New KDVA Chairman and Presidentโ€™s Inaugural Message

New KDVA Chairman and Presidentโ€™s Inaugural Message

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์‹ ์ž„ ํšŒ์žฅ ๋ฐ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ์ทจ์ž„์‚ฌ

February 1, 2023

2023 ๋…„ 2 ์›” 01 ์ผ

I would like to share some thoughts with you on my first day of leading KDVA. Foremost, I am grateful for the opportunity to continue working for the American and Korean Veterans who selflessly served in Korea to secure a better life for Koreans and Americans.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ด๋„๋Š” ์ฒซ ๋‚ ์„ ๋งž์ดํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์ €์˜ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ €, ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์‚ถ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ดํƒ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ„์† ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

As a Soldier for over 41 years working with Service Members and Veterans around the world, I have found that people in uniform donโ€™t fully realize the impact they have in the lives of their fellow comrades, their units, their communities, and their country. They influence lives for good, and their humility is respected and admired.

์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ฐ์ง€์—์„œ ์ „์šฐ๋“ค ๋ฐ ์ฐธ์ „ ์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ตฐ์ธ์œผ๋กœ 41 ๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ €๋Š” ๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค, ์†Œ์†๋ถ€๋Œ€, ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์žŠํ˜€์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋“ค์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒธํ—ˆํ•œ ์ž์„ธ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์กด๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์นญ์†ก์„ ์ž์•„๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

While serving in Korea as the Commander of the United Nations Command, ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea, I experienced the power of the ROK-U.S. Alliance and marveled at the strong and caring nature of the Korean people. Despite living under a constant state of Armistice with a real threat from North Korea just across the De-militarized Zone (or DMZ), Koreans are confident and positive. It is a unique perspective of a people and military that must be vigilant at all times. I am very proud to have served with my American and Korean colleagues and partners to ensure peace and stability on the Peninsula.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ €๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์˜ ํž˜์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ฐ•์ธํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๊ธฐ์งˆ์— ๊ฐํƒ„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋ฌด์žฅ์ง€๋Œ€(DMZ) ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฑด๋„ˆํŽธ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์œ„ํ˜‘๊ณผ ๋์—†๋Š” ํœด์ „ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์ด ๋„˜์น˜๊ณ  ๊ธ์ •์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ญ์‹œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํƒœ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ฒ˜์•ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฐ์— ์žˆ์–ด, ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ ์€ ํŠน๊ธฐํ• ๋งŒํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„์˜ ํ‰ํ™”์™€ ์•ˆ์ • ๋ณด์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋Š๋‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

So that I can learn about you and KDVA better and then help chart a better path forward, I am conducting a 60 Day Review from February 1 to March 31, 2023. During this time period, I welcome your thoughts by email (contact@kdva.vet) and/or on our social media platforms (www.kdva.vet, Facebook @kdva.us, Twitter @KDVAVets, and Instagram @kdvavets). Please share your experiences and stories so that we can support and re-enforce our collective voices in supporting each other and the great Alliance that we built together.

์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด 2023 ๋…„ 2 ์›” 1 ์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 3 ์›” 31 ์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ 60 ์ผ๊ฐ„ ์—…๋ฌดํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ(contact@kdva.vet) ๋˜๋Š” SNS(www.kdva.vet, ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ @kdva.us, ํŠธ์œ„ํ„ฐ @KDVAVets ๋ฐ ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ @kdvavets) ๊ณต์‹๊ณ„์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ ดํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ํ•œ๋ฏธ ์–‘๊ตญ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์Œ“์•„์˜จ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน๊ณผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์„ ๋Œ€๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž…์žฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

With your help and support, KDVA has grown tremendously in our five-and-a-half-year history. Because there are over 3.3 million U.S. Defense Veterans who served in Korea, KDVAโ€™s future is bright and without limits! Please talk about KDVA with your family and friends and ask them to join as a Regular Member or as an Associate Member (https://kdva.vet/join-kdva/). Both are free, and both provide access to so many member benefits.

์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๋„์›€๊ณผ ์ง€์›์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 5 ๋…„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๋™์•ˆ ๊ด„๋ชฉํ• ๋งŒํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 330 ๋งŒ ๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ์— ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋ฌด๊ถ๋ฌด์ง„ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ „์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ , ์ •ํšŒ์› ๋˜๋Š” ์ค€ํšŒ์›(https://kdva.vet/join-kdva/) ๊ฐ€์ž…์„ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํšŒ์› ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Thank you! I am very much looking forward to working โ€œTogether for the ROK-U.S. Alliance!โ€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, “ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ!” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Curtis M. Scaparrotti

General, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Chairman and President

์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค M. ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ

๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ (์˜ˆ)

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋ฐ ํšŒ์žฅ


General Scaparrotti Inaugural Letter

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General (Ret.) Vincent Brooks Farewell Letter

January 30, 2023

2023๋…„1์›”30์ผ

 

Members and Friends of the Korea Defense Veterans Association,

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์› ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„,

On October 1, 2020, the leadership of the Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) transitioned into my hands as Chair and President. On February 1, 2023, the responsibility for leading the Association will transition once again as I complete my time in this role. 2023 will be a significant milestone year for the Korea-U.S. Alliance with many events to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the signing of the Armistice Agreement and the signing of the U.S.-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty. We will begin this important anniversary year with the third transition of leadership for the KDVA as I pass the roles of Chair and President to my friend of many decades and my predecessor in command in Korea, General (U.S. Army, Retired) Curtis โ€œMikeโ€ Scaparrotti.

์ €๋Š” 2020 ๋…„ 10 ์›” 1 ์ผ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ(KDVA) ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋ฐ ํšŒ์žฅ์ง์„ ์œ„์ž„๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2023 ๋…„ 2 ์›” 1 ์ผ, ์ œ ์ž„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ„ ๋งก์•„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ์ €์˜ ์ž„๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ด์–‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2023 ๋…„์€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ด์ •ํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ํ•ด๋กœ, ์ •์ „ํ˜‘์ • ์ฒด๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ ํ•œ๋ฏธ์ƒํ˜ธ๋ฐฉ์œ„์กฐ์•ฝ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ 70 ์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ฒซ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ง€ํœ˜๋ถ€ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์†Œ์‹์„ ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์ด์ž ์ „์ž„์ž์˜€๋˜ ์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค “๋งˆ์ดํฌ” ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์˜์žฅ๊ณผ ํšŒ์žฅ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋ฌผ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

General Scaparrotti is well-known and fondly remembered within the Alliance. He brings his deep experiences in Alliance leadership into this position. His calm and steady-handed approach will be a very valuable asset to KDVA. Please welcome him with your strong personal support to continue making KDVA a growing success. I extend my sincere congratulations to him and my appreciation for his acceptance of this position. He will, without doubt, lead KDVA to new heights of success.

์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ช…๋ง์ด ๋†’์€ ๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋™๋งน์˜ ์ง€ํœ˜๋ถ€ ์ฐจ์›์—์„œ ์–ป์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋“ค์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ง์ฑ…์—์„œ ํ™œ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์˜ ์นจ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™•๊ณ ํ•œ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์— ์žˆ์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ท€์ค‘ํ•œ ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์šฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋‹น๋ถ€๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ € ๋˜ํ•œ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋ฐ ํšŒ์žฅ์ง์„ ์„ ๋œป ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์ค€ ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ๊ป˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์ถ•ํ•˜์™€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ ค๋†“์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ์˜์‹ฌ์น˜ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Departing, I reflect on the four guiding priorities communicated by me on October 1, 2022:

์ œ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ, 2022๋…„ 10์›” 1์ผ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋˜ 4๊ฐ€์ง€ ์šด์˜์ƒ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํšŒ์ƒํ•ด๋ณผ๊นŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Enhance, advocate for, and educate about the ROK-U.S. Alliance which is an essential part of each nationโ€™s security and prosperity, through forums, social media, newsletters, research, and events. ํ•œ๋ฏธ ์–‘๊ตญ์˜ ์•ˆ๋ณด์™€ ๋ฒˆ์˜์— ์žˆ์–ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ถ•์ธ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์˜ ๊ฐ•ํ™”, ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ต์œก์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํฌ๋Ÿผ,SNS, ๋‰ด์Šค๋ ˆํ„ฐ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์กฐ์‚ฌ, ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์ถ”์ง„ ์‚ฌ์—…
  • Recognize and support service members, government civilians, and their families who haveor are serving in the ROK-U.S. Alliance. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตฐ๊ณผ ์ •๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ๊ตฐ์ธ, ๊ณต๋ฌด์› ๋ฐ ๊ตฐ๋ฌด์›, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์˜ ๊ณต๋กœ ์ธ์ • ๋ฐ ์ง€์›
  • Serve its members with professional networking, mentoring, volunteering, and researching opportunities.์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํ‚น, ๋ฉ˜ํ† ๋ง, ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๊ธฐํšŒ ์ œ๊ณต
  • Honor and support the veterans who defended South Korea during the Korean War.ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•œ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์šฐ ๋ฐ ์ง€์›

With great satisfaction, I will say that these priorities kept our mission focused. We grew our membership by 219%. We expanded our followers and outreach by several hundred percent. We grew our partnerships with thought-leadership and academic institutions as well as veterans support organizations to the point where we now have 25 partner organizations in four countries, making KDVA an influential voice and convener among them. We built on the success of the Korea Chapter of KDVA to activate in the U.S., a Hawaii Chapter and a Georgia Chapter. We held our first KDVA Reunion of our members. And we successfully added Korea Defense Veterans to the Revisit Korea Program hosted by the South Korean government. And we helped in keeping the Korea-U.S. Alliance visible and strong.

๋Œ์ด์ผœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ž„๋ฌด์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„์‹ญ์€ 219% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ ์ˆ˜์™€ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ํ™œ๋™๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ ํผ์„ผํŠธ๋‚˜ ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ๊ฐ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค ๋ฐ ํ•™์ˆ  ๊ธฐ๊ด€๊ณผ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ , ํ˜„์žฌ 4 ๊ฐœ๊ตญ์— 25 ๊ฐœ์˜ ์žฌํ–ฅ๊ตฐ์ธ ์ง€์›์กฐ์ง๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ์ด๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ , ์ฃผ์ตœํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ง€๋ถ€์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•˜์™€์ด์ง€๋ถ€, ์กฐ์ง€์•„ ์ง€๋ถ€์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์›๋“ค๊ฐ„์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฆฌ์œ ๋‹ˆ์–ธ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€์—์„œ ์ฃผ์ตœํ•˜๋Š” ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฐฉํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ๊ตณ๊ฑดํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์ด ์œ ์ง€๋˜๊ณ  ๋” ๋„๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€๋„๋ก ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

None of these accomplishments would have been achieved without the outstanding support KDVA received. First, thanks go to the Korea-US Alliance Foundation (KUSAF) for their unwavering budgetary support through their fundraising efforts, their hosting of events in Korea, and their advocacy on KDVAโ€™s behalf with the South Korean government Ministries of National Defense, Foreign Affairs, and Patriots and Veterans Affairs. Further thanks go to the KDVA Board of Directors and Advisory Councils. Each member of these groups is a volunteer who has a dedication to the Alliance and to our Veterans of the Alliance. Thank you for stepping forward to help in leading this organization. Thanks also to the KDVA Chapters in Korea, Hawaii, and Georgia who literally putting KDVA โ€œon the mapโ€ and connecting us with Korea Defense Veterans and supporters in geographical regions. Even greater things will come from these chapters and new ones that are added in coming years. Let me also express deep appreciation for those who make everything happen behind the scenes for KDVA daily. To be good stewards, we have only two full-time employees โ€“ Colonel (Retired) Steve Lee and Ms. Earlene Hollerith. The amount of work they do is truly remarkable, and I thank them for their hard work and the volunteers, interns, and contractors they guide in accomplishing our mission. Finally, I want to thank our donors, followers, and especially our members for believing in what we have undertaken at KDVA. We seek continued growth to reach the 3.3 million Korea Defense Veterans, and we are just getting started, but we will need your support to do it. Please spread the word and bring others like you to join us in our mission.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ค‘ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋Š ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์— ์ œ๊ณต๋œ ์ง€์› ์—†์ด๋Š” ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๋˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ(KUSAF)์ด ๋ชจ๊ธˆ ํ™œ๋™๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ๊ฐœ์ตœ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ๋ถ€, ์™ธ๊ต๋ถ€, ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ณดํ›ˆ์ฒ˜ ๋“ฑ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ›„์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†๋Š” ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ์ง€์›์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ๋ฐ ์ž๋ฌธ ์œ„์›ํšŒ์—๋„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ผ์›๋“ค์€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ฏธ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ„์งํ•œ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ด๋„๋Š” ๋ฐ ์•ž์žฅ์„œ ๋„์™€์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ฐ์ง€์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ง€๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ ๋ฐ ์ง€์ง€์ž๋“ค์„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ด ์ค€ ํ•œ๊ตญ, ํ•˜์™€์ด, ์กฐ์ง€์•„ ์ง€๋ถ€์—๋„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ง€๋ถ€๋“ค์„ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ง€๋ถ€๋“ค์—์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฐœ์ „์ด ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ๋’ทํŽธ์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๊ณ  ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•ด์˜จ ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜๋„ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์ •์ง์›์€ ๋‹จ ๋‘ ๋ช…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ฆฌ Steve Lee ๋Œ€๋ น(์˜ˆ)๊ณผ ์–ผ๋ฆฐ ํ™€๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค Earlene Hollerith ์”จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‘˜์€ ์••๋„์ ์ธ ์—…๋ฌด๋Ÿ‰์„ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ด๋“ค์˜ ๋…ธ๊ณ ์™€ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ํฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ์‹  ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž, ์ธํ„ด, ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ํ™œ๋™์— ๋ฏฟ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์‹  ํ›„์›์ž๋“ค, ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” 330 ๋งŒ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐˆ ๊ธธ์ด ๋ฉ€๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋„๋ฆฌ ํ™๋ณดํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž„๋ฌด์— ๋™์ฐธํ•  ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ๋ชจ์•„์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋‹น๋ถ€๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In closing, allow me to repeat words I shared when inaugurated into this position. Enhancing the ROK-U.S. Alliance requires our worthy attention and our supportive efforts, in educating and in advocating. As a team that โ€œgoes together,โ€ from the numerous challenges of the past, and into the unknowns of the future, the Alliance reflects the commitment of our Veterans over many generations. We owe it to them to help make the Alliance even better. I know I can count on you to help me in this effort!

๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์ด ์ง์ฑ…์— ์ทจ์ž„ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ง์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊บผ๋‚ด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ต์œก๊ณผ ์ง€์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ๊ณผ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๋„์ „๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์„ โ€œ์–ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ํ•˜๋Š”โ€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋กœ์„œ, ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์˜ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์„ธ๋Œ€์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ์— ๊ทธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋นš์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์˜ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ฐœ์ „ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ๊ณต๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ‘๊ฑฐ๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜์„œ ์ €์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์— ๋„์›€์„ ๋ณดํƒœ์ฃผ์‹ค ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

TOGETHER FOR THE ROKโ€“U.S. ALLIANCE

ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ

KATCHI KAPSHIDA!

๊ฐ™์ด๊ฐ‘์‹œ๋‹ค!

Vincent K. Brooks
General, U.S. Army (Ret.) Chairman and President

๋นˆ์„ผํŠธ K. ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค
๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ) ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋ฐ ํšŒ์žฅ


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KDVA Announces Changes in Chairman and Vice Chairmen

KDVA Announces Changes in Chairman and Vice Chairmen
์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋ฐ ๋ถ€์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ์ด์ทจ์ž„ ์†Œ์‹

January 25, 2023
2023๋…„ 1์›” 25์ผ

The Korea Defense Veterans Association will transition several senior Board members on February 1, 2023.

2023๋…„ 2์›” 1์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์ด ์˜ˆ์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด ์ „ํŒŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The current KDVA Chairman and President, General (Ret.) Vincent Brooks, will be replaced by General (Ret.) Curtis Scaparrotti. Both Generals are former Commanders of the United Nations Command, ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์žฅ ๋ฐ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋นˆ์„ผํŠธ ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์ด ์ง์œ„๋ฅผ ์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์— ์ด์ž„ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ์žฅ๊ตฐ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ „ ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ, ํ•œ๋ฏธ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์„ ์—ญ์ž„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The current U.S. Vice Chairman, General (Ret.) Scaparrotti, will be replaced by General (Ret.) Robert โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams. ย General Abrams is also a former Commander of the United Nations Command, ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea. ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์ด ๋งก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ์ง์€ ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ย โ€œ์—์ด๋ธŒโ€ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์ด ๋Œ€์‹  ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ์ „ ์œ ์—”์‚ฌ, ํ•œ๋ฏธ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The current ROK Vice Chairman, General Leem, Ho-Young, will be replaced by Major General (Ret.) Lee, Seo Young. ย General Leem is a former Deputy Commander of the Combined Forces Command. ย Maj. Gen. Lee is a former ROK Defense Attachรฉ to the United States.
์ž„ํ˜ธ์˜ ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์ด ๋งก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ํ˜„ ํ•œ์ธก ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ์ง์€ ์ด์„œ์˜ ์†Œ์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์ด ๋„˜๊ฒจ๋ฐ›๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž„ํ˜ธ์˜ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ์ „ ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์ง์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์„œ์˜ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ์ „ ์ฃผ๋ฏธ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ๋ฌด๊ด€์„ ์ง€๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

General (Ret.) Jung, Seung Jo will conclude almost six years on the KDVA Board. ย General Jung is a former ROK Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
์ •์Šน์กฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์€ ์ง€๋‚œ 6๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ถฉ์‹คํžˆ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ด ์˜จ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์ง์—์„œ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์‹ค ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •์Šน์กฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ์ „ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํ•ฉ์ฐธ์˜์žฅ์ง์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Major General (Ret.) Shin, Kyoung Soo will join the Board as an ex officio member from his position as the Secretary General of KDVAโ€™s close partner, the Korea-US Alliance Foundation (KUSAF).
์‹ ๊ฒฝ์ˆ˜ ์†Œ์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์€ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ๋‹จ์ฒด์ธ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ด์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์— ๋‹น์—ฐ์ง ์œ„์›์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Outgoing KDVA Leaders

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํ‡ด์ž„ ์ธ์‚ฌ

Incoming KDVA Leaders

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ทจ์ž„ ์ธ์‚ฌ

โ€œMost of KDVAโ€™s work is done by volunteers, and these senior leaders exemplify and are role models for true selfless service,โ€ said Colonel (Ret.) Steve Lee, KDVA Senior Vice President. โ€œGenerals Brooks, Jung, Leem, and Scaparrotti have led the Association to unprecedented growth over the past two years. KDVA membership grew by over 219% under General Brooksโ€™ leadership so that more people can join KDVA to support the ROK-U.S. Alliance and our Veterans. ย With this significant changing of the guard and the great trajectory that our leaders have put KDVA on, I am excited for KDVAโ€™s future, especially as we embark on our journey in 2023 for the 70th anniversary of the ROK-U.S. Alliance. ย On behalf of thousands of KDVA members, I would like to sincerely thank General Brooks for all his time and energy in passionately leading us in bringing Americans and Koreans closer together.โ€

โ€œ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ด๋ค„์ง€๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ์œ„ ์ž„์›๋“ค ๋˜ํ•œ ์ดํƒ€์  ๋ด‰์‚ฌ์‹ฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋ฒ”์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์„ ์ž„ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ Steve Lee ๋Œ€๋ น(์˜ˆ)์ด ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค ์žฅ๊ตฐ, ์ •์Šน์กฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ, ์ž„ํ˜ธ์˜ ์žฅ๊ตฐ, ์Šค์บํผ๋กœํ‹ฐ ์žฅ๊ตฐ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚œ 2๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ „๋ก€์—†๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ํšŒ์›์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค ์žฅ๊ตฐ์˜ ํšŒ์žฅ ๋ฐ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ์ง ์ทจ์ž„ ์ด๋ž˜ 219%๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์— ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•ด ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน๊ณผ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์—ญ์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์ง€ํœ˜๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์„ธ์šด ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—…์ ๋“ค๊ณผ ์„ ๋ก€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน 70์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๋Š” 2023๋…„ ์˜ฌํ•ด ํŠนํžˆ ๋”์šฑ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด๋ณผ๋งŒํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค๊ฐ„์˜ ์šฐ์• ๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ๋ˆ๋…ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ฐ ์—ด์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ์–ด์˜จ ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค์žฅ๊ตฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์ฒœ๋ช…์˜ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

Gen. (Ret.) Vincent Brooks will join the KDVA Council of Advisors where he will continue to support Korea Defense Veterans and the Korea-U.S. Alliance.

๋นˆ์„ผํŠธ ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์ง€์› ๋ฐ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜์‹ค ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Gen. (Ret.) Jung, Seung Jo will continue in his current position as the President of the Korea-US Alliance Foundation which is KDVAโ€™s closest partner and main fund raiser in Korea. ย He will join the KDVA Council of Advisors.

์ •์Šน์กฐ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ๋‹จ์ฒด์ด์ž ์ฃผ ์žฌ์ •์ง€์›์ฒ˜์ธ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ์—์„œ ํšŒ์žฅ์ง์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜์‹ค ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜์‹ค ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Gen. (Ret.) Leem, Ho-Young will continue serving as the President of the Korea Association of Military Studies which is an important voice for military and security topics in Korea.

์ž„ํ˜ธ์˜๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งก๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ตฐ์‚ฌํ•™ํšŒ ํšŒ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ์•ˆ๋ณด๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜์‹ค ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KDVA is a 501C(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Virginia. ย KDVA is proud to serve our members with exciting programs like the annual Korea Revisit Program. ย Please consider joining KDVA for FREE โ€“ you have already paid for your membership with your service in Korea and support for the Alliance. ย Visit us at http://www.kdva.vet, and follow us on Facebook (@kdva.us) and Twitter (@KDVAvets).

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ์ฃผ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์„ธ๋ฒ•(IRC) ์ œ501C(3)์กฐ ์†Œ์† ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ์„ฑํ™ฉ๋ฆฌ์— ๋งˆ์ณค๋˜ ์žฌ๋ฐฉํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ง€์›์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์šฐํšŒ์— ๊ฐ€์ž…์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์…จ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…์„ ๊ถŒ์žฅ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์ž…์ž๊ฒฉ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ๋˜๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€ ๋ฐ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€www.kdva.vet๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ ๊ณ„์ •(@kdva.us)๋ฐ ํŠธ์œ„ํ„ฐ ๊ณ„์ •(@KDVAvets) ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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KDVA Celebrates Korean American Day

Earlene Hollerith, VP of Programs and Leadership Support at KDVA reads General Brooksโ€™ Korean American Day letter on Capitol Hill Jan. 10, 2023.

 

KDVA Celebrates Korean American Day

January 13, 2023

 

Each year, Korean American Day marks a special time when all Americans can reflect upon the accomplishments and contributions of the millions of Americans of Korean heritage. Korean Americans have an American story full of hope and determination that inspires us all. This year, on the 70th anniversary of the ROK-U.S. Alliance, let us reflect on the special bond between the people of Korea and the Veterans who fought in the Korean War, and the Korea Defense Veterans who continue to defend the Republic of Korea today.

Korean American Day reminds us that we must continue to build our Alliance on the strength and perseverance of the Koreans who first immigrated to the United States over 120 years ago and those who came, under myriad circumstances, since then. Respect, admiration, and goodwill should be hallmarks of our remembrance.

The Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) is committed to supporting our iron-clad commitment to the Alliance. We are the Alliance … asking our members, partners, and supporters to continue their important work to keep the Alliance strong and relevant. Let us resolve to continue to work together with renewed determination for peace, stability, and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula.

Thank you, Korean American Foundation of Greater Washington, for giving KDVA the opportunity once again to be a part of this special day of remembrance and celebration. And thank you for your continued support and friendly relationship.

โ€œTogether for the ROK-U.S. Allianceโ€

 

Sincerely,

 

Vincent K. Brooks
General, U.S. Army (Retired) Chairman & President
Korea Defense Veterans Association

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Joint Message for New Year 2023

Download Joint Message: KUSAF and KDVA Joint New Year 2023 Message

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Changes to KDVA Board of Directors

Changes to KDVA Board of Directors

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ๋ณ€๋™ ์†Œ์‹

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December 20, 2022

2022๋…„ 12์›” 20์ผ

 

The Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce changes to the Board of Directors.ย  Joining the Board are Gen. (Ret.) Robert Abrams, U.S. Army; Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Lee, Keon Wan, Republic of Korea Air Force; and Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Pyo, Se Woo, Republic of Korea Army.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ(KDVA) ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋ณ€๋™์‚ฌํ•ญ ์†Œ์‹์„ ๊ธฐ์œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ (์˜ˆ), ์ด๊ฑด์™„ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ค‘์žฅ(์˜ˆ)๊ณผ ํ‘œ์„ธ์šฐ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์œก๊ตฐ ์†Œ์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์ด ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Gen. Abrams is the most recent former Commander of the United Nations Command, ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea.ย  As a four-star General for over six years, General Abrams served as the 22d Commander of U.S. Army Forces Command, the Armyโ€™s largest formation comprised of over 229,000 active-duty Soldiers, and provided training and readiness oversight of the U.S. Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. He commanded at every level from Company through Theater level, and led units in combat operations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Happily married, he and his wife are proud parents of two children, and grandparents to two grandchildren. He is a functional fitness enthusiast who also enjoys golf and follows college basketball closely.

์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ์œ ์—”์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€, ํ•œ๋ฏธ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€์™€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6๋…„์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๋™์•ˆ 4์„ฑ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ์˜ ์ตœ๋Œ€์กฐ์ง์ธ ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ์ „๋ ฅ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€์˜ 22๋Œ€ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์œผ๋กœ์„œ 22๋งŒ9000๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ํ˜„์—ญ ์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์„ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ์œ„๊ตฐ๊ณผ ์˜ˆ๋น„๊ตฐ์˜ ํ›ˆ๋ จ๊ณผ ์ „ํˆฌํƒœ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ๋…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ์€ ์ค‘๋Œ€๊ธ‰๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ „๊ตฌ๋‹จ์œ„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ๊ธ‰ ์ œ๋Œ€์—์„œ ์ง€ํœ˜๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ํ†ต์†”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์•„๋ผ๋น„์•„, ์ฟ ์›จ์ดํŠธ, ์ด๋ผํฌ ๋ฐ ์•„ํ”„๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ์Šคํƒ„์—์„œ ์ „ํˆฌ์ž‘์ „์„ ์ง€ํœ˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธˆ์Šฌ์ข‹์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ€์ƒํ™œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๋‘ ์ž๋…€๋“ค์˜ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์ด์ž ๋‘ ์ฆ์†์ž๋ถ„๋“ค์˜ ์กฐ๋ถ€์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ์€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ฑ์šด๋™๊ณผ ๊ณจํ”„ ์• ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€ํ•™๋†๊ตฌ ์‹œ์ฒญ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Lt. Gen. Lee previously served as the Commander of the Air Force Operations Command and contributed to strengthening the ROK-U.S. Alliance through various exchanges and

cooperation.ย  During a 30+ year career as a combat pilot, he operated various aerospace weapons systems and played a key role in the establishment of the first KF-16 battalion and its pilot training.ย  General Lee has a strong policy and strategy background from various policy-related positions in the ROK Air Force Headquarters, ROK Ministry of National Defense, and ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff.ย  As Principal of the ROK Air Force Academy, he introduced the PBL (Project Based Learning) education method into the curriculum, enabling significant improvements.

์ด๊ฑด์™„ ์ค‘์žฅ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ตฐ์ž‘์ „์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€์—์„œ ์žฌ์งํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน ๊ฐ•ํ™”์— ๊ฐ์ข… ์—ฐํ•ฉ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ํ–‰์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 30๋…„์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ตฐ์ƒํ™œ๋™์•ˆ ์ „ํˆฌ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ๋กœ์„œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•ญ๊ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์šด์šฉํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ KF-16 ์ „ํˆฌ๋น„ํ–‰๋Œ€๋Œ€์˜ ์ตœ์ดˆ ์„ค๋ฆฝ๊ณผ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ์ฒด์˜ ์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ํ™•๋ฆฝํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฑด์™„ ์ค‘์žฅ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ตฐ๋ณธ๋ถ€, ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ๋ถ€์™€ ํ•ฉ์ฐธ๋ณธ๋ถ€์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ •์ฑ…๊ด€๋ จ์ง์œ„๋ฅผ ๋งก์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์ •์ฑ…์ „๋žต์˜ ๊ธฐํ‹€์„ ๋‹ฆ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๊ด€ํ•™๊ต์˜ ๊ต์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๊ต์œก๊ณผ์ •์— ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•™์Šต๋ฒ•์„ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด ๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Maj. Gen. Pyo in his final assignment served as the ROK Defense Attachรฉ to the USA and helped coordinate defense actions between the two strong allies. General Pyo is a very experienced Alliance leader having worked many years on ROK and U.S. topics in the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff, Combined Forces Command, and ROK Embassy in Washington, DC.ย  After retiring from the ROK Army, he served on ROK President Yoonโ€™s transition team.ย  He is one of the first Korea Military Academy cadets to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy.ย  He and his wife have two sons.

ํ‘œ์„ธ์šฐ ์†Œ์žฅ์€ ์ฃผ๋ฏธ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ด€์˜ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ๋ฌด๊ด€์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ž„๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜์…จ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ตณ๊ฑดํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ์ •์ฑ…๋“ค์„ ์กฐ์œจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‘œ์„ธ์šฐ ์†Œ์žฅ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํ•ฉ์ฐธ๋ณธ๋ถ€, ํ•œ๋ฏธ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€, ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ดDC์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฏธ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ด€์—์„œ ์–‘๊ตญ์— ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ฃผ์ œ๋“ค์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃฌ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์œ ๋Šฅํ•œ ์ง€ํœ˜๊ด€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์œก๊ตฐ์—์„œ ์ „์—ญํ•œ ์ดํ›„ ํ‘œ ์†Œ์žฅ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์œค์„์—ด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ์ธ์ˆ˜์œ„์›ํšŒ์—์„œ๋„ ํ™œ๋™ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์œก๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๊ด€ํ•™๊ต์˜ ์ƒ๋„๋กœ์„œ ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ์‚ฌ๊ด€ํ•™๊ต๋ฅผ ์กธ์—…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์žฅ๋‹˜๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ๋Š” ์Šฌํ•˜์— ๋‘๋ช…์˜ ์ž๋…€๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

KDVA Chairman and President, Gen. (Ret.) Vincent K. Brooks, commented on the changes to the Board saying, โ€œKDVA continues to grow rapidly and as we enter our sixth year, it is time to refresh the Board of Directors as well. ย The additions of Generals Abrams, Lee, and Pyo will bring fresh perspectives to guide us to the next level of supporting those Veterans of both countries who served shoulder-to-shoulder in defending the Republic of Korea and forging the ROK-U.S. Alliance.โ€

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋ฐ ํšŒ์žฅ์ด์‹  ๋นˆ์„ผํŠธ K. ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์€ โ€œ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์„ค๋ฆฝ 6๋…„์ฐจ๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ๋˜ํ•œ ์žฌํŽธ์„ฑํ•  ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ, ์ด๊ฑด์™„ ์ค‘์žฅ, ํ‘œ์„ธ์šฐ ์†Œ์žฅ์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋งž๋Œ€๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ์–‘๊ตญ์˜ ์žฌํ–ฅ๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‹ค์Œ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋Š”๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋น„์ „์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

“I am grateful for this opportunity to continue serving the ROK-U.S. Alliance and our Veterans,” said Gen. (Ret.) Robert โ€œAbeโ€ Abrams. “KDVA has a noble mission to recognize the contributions of all Veterans who served in Korea … because it is their service that changed history for the Korean people and made America a better country.ย  I am looking forward to helping KDVA reach and harness the power of the millions of American and Korean Veterans who served in Korea.”

๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ โ€œ์—์ด๋ธŒโ€ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์€ โ€œํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน๊ณผ ์–‘๊ตญ์˜ ์žฌํ–ฅ๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ฒŒ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์†Œ๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐํžˆ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์—์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿผ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ์€ โ€œ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ˆญ๊ณ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€ฆย  ์ด๋“ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ๋” ๋ฐœ์ „๋œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•œ๋ฏธ ์–‘๊ตญ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ์žฌํ–ฅ๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํž˜์„ ๊ฒฐ์†ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์กฐ๋ ฅํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Lt. Gen. Lee, Keun Wan said, โ€œI want to thank General Brooks and the KDVA Board of Directors for their warm welcome.ย  I’ve always respected General Brooks and KDVA for their commitment to the development of Korea’s defense and the ROK-U.S. Alliance.ย  I am honored to participate in the valuable work together in working with good friends for the strengthening of the ROK-U.S. Alliance and supporting our Veterans in Korea and the United States.โ€

์ด๊ทผ์™„ ์ค‘์žฅ์€โ€œBrooksย ์žฅ๊ตฐ๊ณผย KDVAย ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ™˜์˜์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒย Brooksย ์žฅ๊ตฐ๊ณผย KDVA๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์กด๊ฒฝํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน ๊ฐ•ํ™”์™€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ข‹์€ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ท€์ค‘ํ•œ ์ผ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์˜๊ด‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค”ย ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Maj. Gen. Pyo stated, โ€œIt will be my great honor to continue serving the ROK-U.S. Alliance, even after retirement, as a KDVA Board member. I believe that there is nothing better than honoring and supporting those who served and are serving the ROK-U.S. Alliance that has laid an irreplaceable foundation for the peace and prosperity of our great nations. It is my lifetime mission! I am looking forward to working closely with Korean and American colleagues and friends to pursue the mission of the KDVA, โ€˜Together for the ROK-US Allianceโ€™.โ€

ํ‘œ์„ธ์šฐ ์†Œ์žฅ์€ โ€œ์ „์—ญ ์ดํ›„์—๋„ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์ž„์›์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ„์† ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์˜๊ด‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ผ์€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์€ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฒˆ์˜๊ณผ ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜๊ณผ๋„ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €์˜ ํ•„์ƒ์˜ ๊ณผ์—…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋™๋ฃŒ ์ž„์›์ง„ ๋ฐ ์นœ๋ถ„์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Please learn more about these new KDVA Board members at https://kdva.vet/leadership/.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์‹ ์ž„ ์ž„์›๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์„ธํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋Š” https://kdva.vet/leadership/์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

KDVA is a 501C(3) non-profit organization registered in Virginia.ย  KDVA is proud to serve our members with exciting programs like the Korea Revisit Program which just concluded in Korea (October 23-28, 2022).ย  We are thankful that we are continuing our strong growth in membership โ€“ in 2022, we increased our membership by over 100%!ย  So please consider joining KDVA for FREE โ€“ you have already paid for your membership with your service in Korea and support for the Alliance.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ์ฃผ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์„ธ๋ฒ•(IRC) ์ œ501C(3)์กฐ ์†Œ์† ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์„ฑํ™ฉ๋ฆฌ์— ๋งˆ์ณค๋˜ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์žฌ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋“ค์„ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋Š๋‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์‹ ๊ทœํšŒ์› ๊ฐ€์ž…๋ฅ ์ด ๊ธ‰์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2022๋…„ ํ•œํ•ด๋™์•ˆ ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…๋ฅ ์ด 100%์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•˜์„ธ์š”- ๊ฐ€์ž…์ž๊ฒฉ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ๋˜๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€ ๋ฐ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Visit us at http://www.kdva.vet, and follow us on Facebook (@kdva.us) and Twitter (@KDVAvets).

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€www.kdva.vet ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ ๊ณ„์ • (@kdva.us)๋ฐ ํŠธ์œ„ํ„ฐ ๊ณ„์ •(@KDVAvets) ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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New KDVA Senior Enlisted Council Formed by Board of Directors

New KDVA Senior Enlisted Council Formed by Board of Directors

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์„ ์ž„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ ์ฐฝ์„ค

December 15, 2022

2022๋…„ 12์›” 15์ผ

 

The Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the activation of a Senior Enlisted Council (SEC) on December 14, 2022, to communicate to the Board of Directors on behalf of the largest group of Korea Defense Veterans โ€“ those who served in the enlisted ranks of the United States and the Republic of Korea.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ(KDVA)๋Š” 2022๋…„ 12์›” 14์ผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€๋“ค์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ๊ณผ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ ์ž„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์„คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋น„์ค‘์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์— ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Council will be chaired by Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) Steven Payton, U.S. Army, who is also on the KDVA Board of Directors.ย  Before retiring from the U.S. Army, Payton served as the Senior Enlisted Leader in Korea for the United Nations Command / ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command / U.S. Forces Korea.ย  Joining him are five other distinguished senior enlisted Korea Defense Veterans:

ํ•ด๋‹น ์œ„์›ํšŒ์˜ ์œ„์›์žฅ์€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์ž„์›์ธ ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ํŽ˜์ดํŠผ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ (์˜ˆ)๊ฐ€ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ์—์„œ ์ „์—ญํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „, ํŽ˜์ดํŠผ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ๋Š” ์œ ์—”์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€/ํ•œ๋ฏธ์—ฐํ•ฉ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€/์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€์˜ ์„ ์ž„๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ์ง€ํœ˜๊ด€์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŽ˜์ดํŠผ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ 5๋ช…์˜ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์„ ์ž„๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ์ถœ์‹ ๋“ค๋กœ ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) Lee, Gil Ho, Republic of Korea Army, who served as the Senior Enlisted Leader of the Combined (ROK-U.S.) Ground Component Command

๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์œก๊ตฐ ์ด๊ธธํ˜ธ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ(์˜ˆ), ์ „ ํ•œ๋ฏธ์—ฐํ•ฉ์ง€์ƒ๊ตฐ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ ๋ณต๋ฌด

  • Chief Master Sergeant (Ret.) Scott Lumpkin, U.S. Air Force, who served as the Command Chief Master Sergeant and Senior Enlisted Leader of 7th Air Force and the Combined (ROK-U.S.) Air Component Command

๋ฏธ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์Šค์ฝง ๋Ÿผํ”„ํ‚จ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ (์˜ˆ), ์ „ ๋ฏธ 7๊ณต๊ตฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐํ•ฉ๊ณต๊ตฐ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ ๋ณต๋ฌด

  • Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) Rick Merritt, U.S. Army, who served as the Senior Enlisted Leader of Eighth Army in Korea

๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋ฆญ ๋ฉ”๋ฆฟ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ (์˜ˆ), ์ „ ์ฃผํ•œ ๋ฏธ 8๊ตฐ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ

  • Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) Mario Terranes, U.S. Army, who served as Commandant of the Eighth Army NCO Academy

๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์˜ค ํ…Œ๋ ˆ๋‚˜์Šค ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ (์˜ˆ), ์ „ ๋ฏธ 8๊ตฐ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ํ•™๊ต์žฅ

  • Command Sergeant Major Julie Guerra, U.S. Army, a former Command Sergeant Major of the Korea-based and focused 501st Military Intelligence Brigade. CSM Guerra will join the KDVA Senior Enlisted Council after her retirement from the U.S. Army.ย  She currently serves as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army for Intelligence.

๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ์ค„๋ฆฌ ๊ฒŒ๋ผ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ, ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ฃผ๋‘” ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ 501 ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์ •๋ณด์—ฌ๋‹จ ์ „์ž„ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ

๊ฒŒ๋ผ ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ „์—ญ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๋Š”๋Œ€๋กœ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์„ ์ž„์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋ผ์ฃผ์ž„์›์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์ •๋ณด ๋ถ€์ฐธ๋ชจ๋ถ€์žฅ์˜ ์„ ์ž„๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ๊ณ ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต๋ฌด์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

General (Ret.) Vincent K. Brooks, Chairman and President of KDVA said, โ€œThis Council, comprised of some of the most accomplished Enlisted men and women who have served in Korea, will give the Board clearer insights into what is needed to support the membership of the Korea Defense Veterans Association with programs, education, support, communication, and family support.ย  They reflect the best and brightest members of our population of Veterans, and we are grateful for their willingness to serve in this capacity.โ€

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋ฐ ํšŒ์žฅ ๋นˆ์„ผํŠธ K. ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค ๋Œ€์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์€ โ€œ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ๋ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ตฐ ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ์ถœ์‹  ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋Š” ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ™œ๋™๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํšŒ์›๋“ค ์ค‘์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์œ ๋Šฅํ•œ ์ธ์žฌ๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ์ด ์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์˜์ง€์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KDVA is very excited about this initial group of senior enlisted leaders, and we look forward to adding other members of all services from both the ROK and U.S. militaries.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ์„ ์ž„๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€๋“ค๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ์ดˆ๋Œ€์œ„์›ํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ์˜๋ฉฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์„ ์ž„๋ถ€์‚ฌ๊ด€๋“ค๋„ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KDVA is a 501C(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Virginia.ย  KDVA is proud to serve our members with exciting programs like the Korea Revisit Program which just concluded in Korea (October 23-28, 2022).ย  We are thankful that we are continuing our strong growth in membership โ€“ in 2022, we increased our membership by over 100%!ย  So please consider joining KDVA for FREE โ€“ you have already paid for your membership with your service in Korea and support for the Alliance.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ์ฃผ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์„ธ๋ฒ•(IRC) ์ œ501C(3)์กฐ ์†Œ์† ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์„ฑํ™ฉ๋ฆฌ์— ๋งˆ์ณค๋˜ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์žฌ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋“ค์„ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋Š๋‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์‹ ๊ทœํšŒ์› ๊ฐ€์ž…๋ฅ ์ด ๊ธ‰์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2022๋…„ ํ•œํ•ด๋™์•ˆ ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…๋ฅ ์ด 100%์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•˜์„ธ์š”- ๊ฐ€์ž…์ž๊ฒฉ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ๋˜๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€ ๋ฐ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€www.kdva.vet ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ ๊ณ„์ •(@kdva.us) ๋ฐ ํŠธ์œ„ํ„ฐ ๊ณ„์ •(@KDVAvets) ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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U.S. Veterans Day 2022: Remembering Veterans Who Served in Korea

November 11, 2022

2022 ๋…„ 11 ์›” 11 ์ผ
U.S. Veterans Day 2022: Remembering Veterans Who Served in Korea

2022 ๋…„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์žฌํ–ฅ๊ตฐ์ธ์˜ ๋‚ : ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ณต๋ฌด์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋ฉฐ

On U.S. Veterans Day, KDVA and KUSAF honor the courage and sacrifice of all living Veterans who served in war and peace.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์žฌํ–ฅ๊ตฐ์ธ์˜ ๋‚ ์— ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ์ „์Ÿ ๋ฐ ํ‰ํ™”์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ์ƒ์กด ๋ณต๋ฌด์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ์™€ ํฌ์ƒ์— ๊ฒฝ์˜๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

November 11, 1918, marked the end of World War I, โ€œat the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.โ€ For many years, this date was known as Armistice Day, but in 1954 only a year after the Korean War, President Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed November 11th as Veterans Day to recognize the millions of living Veterans.

1918๋…„ 11์›” 11์ผ, ์ œ1์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „์ด ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋œ ์‹œ์ ์€ โ€œ11์›” 11์ผ 11์‹œโ€์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด ๋‚ ์งœ๋Š” ์ •์ „์˜ ๋‚ ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์กŒ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „์Ÿ์ด ๋๋‚œ ์ง€ 1๋…„ ํ›„์ธ 1954๋…„์— ๋“œ์™€์ดํŠธ ์•„์ด์  ํ•˜์›Œ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ 11์›” 11์ผ์„ ์žฌํ–ฅ๊ตฐ์ธ์˜ ๋‚ ๋กœ ์„ ํฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์‚ด์•„์žˆ๋Š” ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ์„ ์˜ˆ์šฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ ๋กœ ์„ ํฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

While it is a day for the living, it is still a solemn time to honor of the sacrifice in body, mind, and spirit of these Veterans, whose sacrifice was just shy of the โ€œlast full measure of devotionโ€ so profoundly stated by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address. It is also a day that many Veterans are once again confronted with the memory of friends they lost.

์ƒ์กดํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‚ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ชธ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์Œ๊ณผ ์ •์‹ ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ฐ”์นœ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—„์ˆ™ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ถ„๋“ค์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ์€ ์•„๋ธŒ๋ผํ•จ ๋ง์ปจ์ด ๊ฒŒํ‹ฐ์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ ์—ฐ์„ค์—์„œ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ–ˆ๋˜ โ€œ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ โ€์ด๋ž€ ํ‘œํ˜„๋„ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‚ ์€ ๋งŽ์€ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The 1.8 million Americans who served in the Korean War and the 3.3 million U.S. Defense Veterans who served in Korea for the past 69 years are unique in that this conflict has never really ended. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula remain high, and our Veterans have never had the opportunity to both address atrocities and reconcile with their former enemies. They cannot revisit most of the battlefields of their youth as have the Veterans of wars in Europe and other parts of Asia. Even during Armistice in Korea, Defense Veterans have witnessed 92 fellow U.S. Service Members perish in sporadic incidences of violence perpetrated by North Korea and many more suffered wounds.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ์— ์ฐธ์ „ํ•œ 180๋งŒ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ๊ณผ ์ง€๋‚œ 69๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ์œ„๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ 330๋งŒ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ๋“ค์€ ์ด ์ „์Ÿ์ด ๋๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Œ์„ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„์˜ ๊ธด์žฅ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ณต๋ฌด์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์€ ๋‹น์‹œ ์ ์˜ ์ž”ํ•™ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ๋งค๋“ญ์ง“๊ณ  ํ™”ํ•ดํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ๊ณผ ์•„์‹œ์•„์˜ ์ฐธ์ „ ์šฉ์‚ฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ Š์€ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ „์žฅ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ๋“ค์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ •์ „ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ์—๋„ ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•œ ๋„๋ฐœ๋กœ 92๋ช…์˜ ๋™๋ฃŒ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ด ์‚ฌ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์ด ๋ถ€์ƒ๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Through war and armistice, Americans have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their Korean counterparts facing the same dangers and sacrifices. Korean War Veterans and Korea Defense Veterans, together, can take solace and pride that their sacrifices enabled and assisted the Republic of Korea to rise from the dark shadows of war to become one of the most prosperous, generous, and technologically advanced democracies on Earth.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ ์ •์ „์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์–ด๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ™์€ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ํฌ์ƒ์— ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „ ์ฐธ์ „ ์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ณต๋ฌด์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ด ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ฒˆ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „๋œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํฐ ์œ„์•ˆ๊ณผ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Please join us in honoring and remembering all American Veterans who answered the call to serve.

๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ถ€๋ฆ„์— ์‘ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ œ๋Œ€๊ตฐ์ธ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋™์ฐธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œTogether for the ROK-U.S. Allianceโ€

โ€œํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด์š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งนโ€

Vincent K. Brooks

General, U.S. Army (Retired)
President, Korea Defense Veterans Association

๋นˆ์„ผํŠธ K ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค

์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์žฅ

Jung, Seung Jo

General, ROK Army (Retired)
President, Korea-US Alliance Foundation

์ •์Šน์กฐ

์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์œก๊ตฐ

๋Œ€์žฅ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์žฌ๋‹จ ํšŒ์žฅ


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Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Thomas Bergeson Joins KDVA Board of Directors

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Thomas Bergeson Joins KDVA Board of Directors

ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ๋ฒ„์ œ์Šจ ๋ฏธ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ค‘์žฅ(์˜ˆ)์˜ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์ง„ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ ์†Œ์‹์„ ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

November 1, 2022

2022๋…„ 11์›” 1์ผ

Please join the Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) Board of Directors in welcoming our new Board member, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Thomas W. Bergeson, U.S. Air Force.

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ(KDVA) ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์— ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค W. ๋ฒ„์ œ์ŠจThomas W. Bergeson ๋ฏธ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์ค‘์žฅ์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธฐ์œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œI am excited that on todayโ€™s 82nd anniversary of the activation of the 7th Air Force, a former 7AF Commander is joining the KDVA leadership team,โ€ said General (Ret.) Vincent Brooks, KDVA Chairman and President. โ€œGeneral Bergeson is well-known for bringing people together for a common cause. While Commander of the 7th Air Force in Korea, General Bergeson wore multiple hats as the commander of the combined air forces of both the U.S. and South Korea, he was the Commander of all U.S. Air Force operations in Korea, and he was the Deputy Commander of U.S. Forces Korea.ย  He knows very well the importance of the ROK-U.S. Alliance and did so much to make it stronger.โ€

โ€œ๋ฏธ7๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ฐฝ์„ค 82์ฃผ๋…„ ๊ธฐ๋…์ผ์ธ ์˜ค๋Š˜, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์ด์‚ฌ์ง„์— ์ „ 7๊ณต๊ตฐ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป ๊นŠ์€ ์†Œ์‹์„ ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ„์ œ์Šจ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ๊ณต๋™์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์ด๋„๋Š” ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ์žฌ๋Šฅ์„ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›์€ ๋ฆฌ๋”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ7๊ณต๊ตฐ ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์งํ•˜๋˜ ๋‹น์‹œ ๋ฒ„์ œ์Šจ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ์—ฐํ•ฉ๊ณต๊ตฐ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€(CACC) ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ž‘์ „์„ ์ด๊ด„ํ•˜๋Š” 7๊ณต๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋ น๊ด€์ง์„ ๊ฒธ์งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ„์ œ์Šจ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋™๋งน๊ฐ•ํ™”์— ๋ชธ์†Œ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ํšŒ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ด์‚ฌ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒธ์งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋Œ€์žฅ ๋นˆ์„ผํŠธ ๋ธŒ๋ฃฉ์Šค ์žฅ๊ตฐ์ด ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Bergeson said, โ€œWhat an exciting time to join the KDVA Board!ย  It is a great honor to be a part of an organization that cares for all Veterans who served in Korea.ย  Our Veterans helped secure a better life for Koreans and Americans, and their stories need to be told.ย  I am looking forward to helping KDVA support the Alliance and our Veterans.โ€

๋ฒ„์ œ์Šจ ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์ค‘์žฅ์€ โ€œ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์ด์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋™์ฐธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ๋œป๊นŠ๊ณ  ์‹œ์˜์ ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ „๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ฒด์˜ ์ผ์›์ด ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์–ด ํฐ ์˜๊ด‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ๋” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ์‚ถ์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋งŽ์€ ํ—Œ์‹ ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค์ด ๋„๋ฆฌ ์ „ํ•ด์ง€๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ์˜ ์ผ์›์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน๊ณผ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์žฅ๋ณ‘๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์— ๋‘ ํŒ”์„ ๊ฑท๊ณ  ์ ๊ทน ๋•๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Bergeson served in Korea, U.S. Central Command, London, and the Pentagon.ย  He has been recognized as a top Air Force leader in several categories throughout this career.ย  General Bergeson serves as a Trustee of U.S. Air Force Academy Falcon Foundation.ย  He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and served as a Senior Leader Fellowship at Harvard Universityโ€™s Kennedy School.

๋ฒ„์ œ์Šจ ์˜ˆ๋น„์—ญ ์ค‘์žฅ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ, ๋ฏธ ์ค‘๋ถ€์‚ฌ๋ น๋ถ€, ๋Ÿฐ๋˜, ๋ฏธ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ๋ถ€์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ•œ ์ด๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์—ญ ๋‹น์‹œ ๋ฏธ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ธ์‚ฌํ‰๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—์„œ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋ฒ”์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ„์ œ์Šจ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ๋ฏธ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์‚ฌ๊ด€ํ•™๊ต ํŒฐ์ฝ˜์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ ์ด์‚ฌ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์‚ฌ๊ด€ํ•™๊ต ์กธ์—…์ƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ•˜๋ฒ„๋“œ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ผ€๋„ค๋”” ์Šค์ฟจ์—์„œ ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด ๋ฆฌ๋” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์œ„์›์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Please see his complete biography at https://kdva.vet/leadership/.

๋ฒ„์ œ์Šจ ์žฅ๊ตฐ์˜ ์ „์ฒด ์ด๋ ฅ์€ https://kdva.vet/leadership/ ๋งํฌ์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KDVA is a 501C(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Virginia.ย  KDVA is proud to serve our members with exciting programs like the Korea Revisit Program which just concluded in Korea (October 23-28, 2022).ย  We are thankful that we are continuing our strong growth in membership โ€“ so far in 2022, we have already exceeded 2021โ€™s 48% growth!ย  So please consider joining KDVA for FREE โ€“ you have already paid for your membership with your service in Korea and support for the Alliance.ย  Visit us at http://www.kdva.vet, and follow us on Facebook (@kdva.us) and Twitter (@KDVAvets).

์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์„ธ๋ฒ•(IRC) ์ œ501C(3)์กฐ์— ์†ํ•œ ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ์ฃผ ์†Œ์žฌ ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ๋Š” ํšŒ์›๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์œ ์ตํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—…๋“ค์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ๋ณต๋ฌด ์žฅ๋ณ‘ ์žฌ๋ฐฉํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์ตœ๊ทผ(2022๋…„ 10์›” 23์ผ~28์ผ) ์„ฑํ™ฉ๋ฆฌ์— ๋งˆ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ฃผํ•œ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ „์šฐํšŒ ์‹ ๊ทœํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…์ž ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ง€์† ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2022๋…„ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋™์•ˆ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 48% ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž… ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์—ด๋ ค ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€์ž…์ž๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜์„œ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์ง€์› ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์›์ž๊ฒฉ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ตฐ ๋ณต๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋™๋งน์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ๊ณผ ์ง€์ง€๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. www.kdva.vet ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ(@kdva.us)์™€ ํŠธ์œ„ํ„ฐ(@KDVAvets) ๊ณ„์ •๋„ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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