Change shortens Army inprocessing cycle at Yongsan

By Jimmy Norris, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, July 27, 2008 SEOUL — U.S. Army units in South Korea can expect to receive incoming soldiers a day sooner thanks to a recent change at the Yongsan Readiness Center. Starting Aug. 1, the inprocessing cycle will take four, not five, days, officials said. Center commander Capt. Desiree Dirige said the change was made in order to make "more efficient use of the soldiers’ time and get them off to their units faster." Under the new schedule, the center no longer will give soldiers a day to complete a series of training sessions mandated under U.S. Forces Korea regulation 350-2. Instead, soldiers will be required to finish the 18 modules — including lessons on anti-terrorism, the status of forces agreement and suicide prevention — online. Dirige said that the Army started... [read full story]