US military families in South Korea? Top US general wants policy change
2023-01-27
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U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley gives remarks during the 19th annual 911 observance ceremony at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., Sept. 11, 2020. Reuters
The top U.S. general on Thursday suggested he favored an overhaul of a longstanding military policy that sends thousands of family members to live with forces deployed overseas in select locations including South Korea and Bahrain.
Any sudden decision to stop sending U.S. military families to South Korea, home to 28,500 troops, could stoke anxiety across the border in North Korea, which would likely see it as increasing American readiness for conflict.
Similarly, any abrupt move to pull relatives of U.S. military members from Bahrain, site of the U.S. Navy's Middle East headquarters, would raise concerns in nearby Iran.
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it was time for a more methodical, "hard look" globally at the practice of sending families of servicemembers abroad, where they could be danger.
