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Units
17th Aviation Brigade
Contracting Command Korea
8th Military Police Brigade
8th Personnel Command
Special Operations Theater Support Element
41st Signal Battalion
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Camp Coiner

Camp Coiner
Located in Seoul City approximately 3 kilometers from the Seoul Train Station, the camp has buildings and an installation property valued in excess of $1 million dollars. The 8th Personnel Command commander concurrently serves as Installation Commander of Camp Coiner. Its primary mission was to support its tenant units.

Camp Coiner was named after 2nd Lt. Randall Coiner, Signal Corps, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Division, who was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for action near Sokkagae on 16 April 1953. The camp was memorialized on 18 January 1967.

It was occupied by elements of 8th PERSCOM, 8th MP Brigade, 17th Aviation Brigade and 1st Signal Brigade. During the Japanese occupatoin, Camp Coiner housed a horse-drawn artillery unit. Camp Coiner was acquired by U.S. forces along with the Yongsan compound on 11 September 1948.

Major tenants included HQ 8th Personnel Command, Contracting Command Korea (CCK) and barracks for personnel from 17th Aviation Brigade, 8th Military Police Brigade, 1st Signal Brigade, 8th Personnel Command and the Air Force Element. Camp Coiner was adjacent to and north of Yongsan Garrison Main Post in the nortwest part of the Republic of Korea. Camp Coiner was a 55.16-acre tract of land and receives utilities and waste treatment facilities with Yongsan Garrison.

The major contracting location in Seoul was Yongsan Garrison. Major contracting offices in Seoul at Yongsan and the Far East District compound were located close to subway stations. Camp Coiner was tucked into a corner of Yongsan, the US military installation in Seoul. The Assistant Chief of Staff Acquisition Management was a staff office within both United States Forces Korea and Eighth United States Army. The Staff Principal also was Commander of the US Army Contracting Command and the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting. The office was physically located on Camp Coiner in Yongsan in the annex of building 1130.

The 106th Med Det (VS) sponsored Overseas Deployment Training for USAR units, and deployed its PROFIS personnel annually. These personnel lived in a field environment when deploying to Korea. ODT units deploy to Korea in conjunction with a major USFK exercise. Typically these individuals flew into Osan AFB or Seoul Kimpo International airport. The exercise Joint Reception Center provided transportation to Camp Coiner. These individuals usually spent one night in tent city during in-processing before being released to the 106th.

Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in September 2002 for new construction of a 4-story enlisted barraces and a new Community Activities Center to be configured on Camp Coiner as Campus Coiner. The CAC would include 3 basketball courts, indoor swimming pool, free weight room, and an all new dining facility. Most Quonset Hut facilities had been destroyed by that time with only a few remaining. Renovation of older barracks facilities and construction of new enlisted barrackes buildings were on-going projects for Camp Coiner.

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8th Personnel Command
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HHC 8th Perscom
1st Replacement Company
509th Personnel Service Battalion
516th Personnel Service Battalion
Facilities

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8th Personnel Command

The mission of 8th PERSCOM is to sustain personnel readiness and exercise command and control over assigned theater-level personnel units. The theater PERSCOM manages critical personnel systems and synchronizes personnel network operations throughout the theater. The command is headquartered in Yongsan with subordinate units located throughout Korea. The 516th PSB is headquartered in Yongsan with detachments located at Cp Humphreys and Cp Henry. Also, the 516th PSB, Delta Co, is responsible for controlling all incoming mail to Korea. Postal platoons are located in Yongsan, Kimpo Airport, Cp Humphreys and Cp Henry. The 1st Replacement Company, located in Yongsan, is responsible for controlling and processing all incoming soldiers entering Korea. The EUSA Band in Yongsan, performs throughout the Korea. The 509th PSB at Cp Casey has subordinate unit, the 19th AG Company (Postal) with platoons located at Camp Casey and Camp Red Cloud.

The 8th Personnel Command was permanently organized under a Table of Organization and Equipment (TOE) effective 16 October 1987. The command is the successor to a number of units responsible for Army personnel administration in Korea. Originally there was the Office of the Adjutant General, Eighth United States Army; then the U.S. Army Military Personnel Center-Korea (MILPERCEN-K); and most recently, the 8th Personnel Command (Provisional). These organizational changes were made to consolidate and centralize all Army personnel service support in the Theater.

The 8th Personnel Command (Provisional) was activated 15 January 1982 as a major subordinate command of Eighth Army. It was comprised of the following subordinate units; Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 199th Personnel Service Company, 516th Personnel Service Company, 1st Replacement Regulating Detachment, Headquarters, Postal Group-Korea, and 1st, 10th, 19th, 66th, 81st and 117th AG Detachments (Postal). The 1st AG Det (Postal) was transferred to 8th PERSCOM (Provisional) with the new title of ROKA Affairs Directorate, enabling 8th PERSCOM to provide greater efficiency in administrative support for the KATUSA program and supervision of the KATUSA Reception/Training Center at Camp Humphreys. As a result of the reorganizations, Theater Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM) doctrine has been implemented within the Republic of Korea, with an effective peacetime organization that could readily transition to partial/full mobilization with minimum disruption to personnel service support.

The distinctive unit insignia was authorized on 27 Jan 1987, consisting of three interlocking gold rings centered on an octagon divided in the manner of a Korean taeguk, red above and blue below, all bordered in base by a tripartite gold scroll, with the ends folded under and inscribed “SOLDIER SERVICE SUPPORT” in black letters. The three interlocking annulets signify the principal elements of the Command