WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) — Fifty years after his deployment during the Korean DMZ Conflict, Doug Voss sees hope for an official end to the Korean War.
"This is the most confident I've been," Voss said. "I've been a Korea watcher since I'd been over there."
Doug Voss spent 13 months, from November 1968 to December 1969, in the Demilitarized Zone. He was just 18 years old.
The DMZ is a 2.5-mile swath of land that, after an armistice in 1953, created a buffer between North and South Korea that was supposed to be hostility-free.
From 1966 through 1969, U.S. and South Korean soldiers at the DMZ tried to guard against North Korean incursion. Referred to as a low-intensity military action, Voss says the conflict was anything but.
“When I went over there, it was a hot time on the DMZ," Voss said.
He had two primary missions. As a U.S. Army recovery specialist, he was tasked with retrieving broken-down U.S. military vehicles from the border fence. Most of those vehicles had seen years of duty.
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