Security forces assist Korean community

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  • By 1st Lt. Brooke Brander
  • 8th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
KUNSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (AFPN) --  The “Wolf Pack” worked side-by-side with the Korean Army and Kunsan City firefighters to help a local farmer.

Nineteen security forces members, along with approximately 50 Korean soldiers and firefighters helped clear a farmer’s greenhouses. The building collapsed under the weight of record-breaking snow received during December.

“The farm was completely saturated with snow and in the center of the farm was this structure that was totally caved in,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Eversley of the 8th Security Forces Squadron and the team leader for the clean-up. “It looked like a row of metal waves and snow.”

The clean-up crew spent six hours in the farmer’s field shoveling snow and cutting down and removing the metal structure that was once a greenhouse. They removed debris from the greenhouse and surrounding area.

Sergeant Eversley said when the request for volunteers went out to his squadron, the members of Dragon and Avenger Flights jumped at the opportunity to assist.

“In every country we all have natural disasters that create situations which a lot of people can’t overcome by themselves,” he said. “It gave us an opportunity to assist a local farmer who suffered just about total loss to his life’s work and it showed our commitment to the assistance of this nation in every way we can.”

The experience was one that Sergeant Eversley said he wouldn’t forget and would do again.

“When you see something like this on the news you don’t get the full effect that it has on someone’s life but when you see it in person I think you feel what they are actually feeling,” he said. “It drives you to do whatever it takes to get them back on their feet.”