“Oh, I have never seen things like this before,” said former ROK Marine Captain Kim Jung-kyu, 70, Friday’s 150-minute U.S.-ROK Integrated Firepower Exercise.

Kim, who served during the Vietnam War and who has received the ROK Distinguished Military Service Medal, has clearly seen his share of both combat demonstrations of firepower, yet was blown away by the demonstration.

In a venue the size of 100 soccer fields, a total of 86 K-2 tanks and K-21 Armored Personnel Carriers (APC), 111 K-9 self-propelled guns and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), 82 FA-50 fighters, F-15K fighters and Cobra helicopters – including 21 Apache attack