Despite building, Camp Humphreys full

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Despite building, Camp Humphreys full
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, November 11, 2009

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — Most families assigned to Camp Humphreys in South Korea should expect to live off post and wait up to 18 months before an on-post apartment becomes open, according to Army officials.

Those families also will have to go off post for dental and non-emergency medical care in coming years until facilities are built at Humphreys.

Humphreys is in the midst of a $13 billion construction boom as the post is being tripled in size to eventually become the U.S. military’s chief installation in South Korea and home to the bulk of its Korea-based forces.

But for now, garrison officials are telling new families to be ready to live and get health services off post, Robert H. McElroy, spokesman for U.S. Army Garrison-Humphreys, said Monday.

The number of command-sponsored families assigned to Humphreys has more than doubled in the past year to 498. But Humphreys has apartments for 148 families, all of which have been fully occupied for the past several months.


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