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Command Post Tango

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Command Post TANGO
Part of ROK/US Combined Forces Command
Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province in  South Korea
Ash Carter visits in 2013
TypeBunker
CodeTANGO
Site information
OperatorUnited States Forces Korea
Open to
the public
No
ConditionIn active
Site history
Built1970s (1970s)
Built byUnited States Forces Korea
MaterialsGranite

Command Post Tango (CP TANGO) is a United States Forces Korea's military bunker complex in South Korea.[1] It is the Theater Command Post for the Combatant Commander, UNC/CFC/USFK and State Department Korea and can reportedly withstand a tactical nuclear weapon through the use of several layers of blast doors. It is located in Seongnam, Gyeonggi province.

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Condoleezza Rice visited the bunker in her March 2005 trip to six Asian nations as well as the President of South Korea Lee Myung-Bak.[2] Lee Myung-Bak also visited the bunker in August 2008.

Numerous outer resources of this facility include a water treatment operations center, living quarters, several helicopter landing zones, container storage area, equipment, and facility supply storage area, operations location for the fire department, Emergency Response Center, and other structures, including buildings for external armed security personnel, Directorate of Public Works personnel, Korean Service Corps personnel, Installation Facility Management, communications personnel, and a live fire range with range personnel.

TANGO stands for Theater Air Naval Ground Operations Center. The Command Post was built right after the Korean War and is one of several Command Posts scattered across the globe in Europe, America, Hawaii, and the far east. The bunker is set to be given to the ROK Army as American forces pull back to Camp Humphreys.

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  1. ^ Graff, Garrett (May 2, 2017). Raven Rock. 7502: Simon & Schuster.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ "Remarks to Troops at Command Post Tango Command Post Tango Operations Center" Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Condoleezza Rice, 2005