3rd Paratroopers Battalion (Belgium)
military unit of Belgium
The 3rd Parachute Battalion (French: 3ème Bataillon Parachutistes, Dutch: 3 Bataljon Parachutisten) is one of four airborne forces battalion unit of the Belgian Army and part of the 'Special Operations Regiment'. It carries on the regimental traditions of the Belgian Korean War volunteers.
Corps of Volunteers for Korea
After the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, the United Nations asked the Belgian government for military assistance. Belgium, conscious of the vast cost and logistical difficulties of sending large numbers of men or equipment across the world, elected to put an elite unit under UN command. Since the Belgian constitution forbade sending anyone but volunteers on overseas deployments in peacetime, it was not possible to send an existing battalion, so the Belgian United Nations Command (known as BUNC) was created. BUNC also incorporated a platoon of volunteer from Luxembourg. BUNC soldiers wore Brown Berets with a new cap badge to distinguish them from other Belgian units.
BUNC fought in several of the key engagements of the Korean War from 1951, including the Battle of the Imjin River, the Battle of Haktang-ni and the Battle of Chatkol. BUNC won the United States Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for its heroism, and citations for these battles are included on the Regimental Standard. Of the 3,000 Belgian soldiers who served in Korea, over 100 were killed in action between the battalion's arrival in 1951 and the 1953 armistice.
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