Previously Held MOS's 94B10-Food Service Specialist
94B20-Food Service Specialist
00F-Drill Sergeant
94Z50-Food Service Supervisor
71L10-Administrative Specialist
Description Team Spirit was a joint military training exercise of United States Forces Korea and the Military of South Korea held between 1976 and 1993. The exercise was scheduled from 1994 to 1996 but cancelled in each year as part of diplomacy to encourage the Government of North Korea to disable the North Korean nuclear weapons program. The North Korea regime abandoned talks following the January 1986 Team Spirit exercises, and in late 1992, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the South-North High-Level Talks on the pretext of the 1993 Team Spirit exercise.
Until 2007 the exercise had been called "Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration of Forces" (RSOI). As of March 2008, it is called Key Resolve. North Korea has denounced the joint military exercise as a "war game aimed at a northward invasion."
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
January / 1986
To Month/Year
September / 1986
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
People You Remember CW2 Wilfredo Cruz
Memories Was the Food Service Supervisor assigned to the G-4 of the 25th Infantry Division (L). Chief Cruz and I were to oversee the food service operations for all divisional units scattered around South Korea. One of our main focus was the first major Deployment of Tray Rations to units that had been issued their Combat Field Feeding Equipment. At first our mission was simple..... we were strictly on our own, traveling in a Commercial Utility Vehicle fully equiped with a radio. We were totally on our own until we learned that the Tray Rations that had been packaged back in Hawaii were totally messed up. For example one unit was issued components that only had chocolate pudding in them. #10 cans of Chocolate pudding. I was immediately sent to Camp Humphreys where the Ration Breakdown was and it became my daily job to inspect and correct each days issues of Tray Rations and enhancements. Not all were messed up, but we did have tray rations that had come out of the 7th infantry division at Ft Ord and those that came from Hawaii. As it turned out, I was not a popular person to the soldiers of the unit who had built the modules. I ended up briefing the Commanding General through the G4, Chief of Staff and the Assistant Division Commanding General. I held back nothing. Heads rolled. My AAR became Army Headquarters doctrine. Probably an achievement I am most proud of in my career.
