Change the station

One interesting thing about this voyage was that there were many military personnel arriving in Korea for a permanent station change. There were a bunch on the flights I took-- Air Force, mainly-- but also, at Incheon Airport, there was an announcement over the PA that arriving personnel were supposed to clear customs at a particular station. It must be quite a few coming in if they would have a special announcement at the airport to handle them.

It made me wonder... is something up with North Korea? That is pure speculation because I have no way of knowing if we are actually bringing in more troops to South Korea, or merely moving them around (or even shipping more out than we are bringing in). Just a thought.

As an amusing aside, there was a senior officer (in uniform) at the airport helping to direct the people arriving on my flight, who were not traveling in uniform. As I passed by, clearly striding toward a different customs exit than the military one, he said, "Ma'am, are you military?"