Camp Casey, South Korea

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Located in Dongducheon (also Tongduchon), South Korea, Camp Casey (named in 1952 after Engineer Officer, Major Hugh Boyd Casey) is one of several U.S. Army bases in South Korea near the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Camp Casey, Camp Castle, and neighboring Camp Hovey hold the main armor, engineer, and mechanized infantry elements of the 2nd Infantry Division (United States) in South Korea.

U.S. Army soldiers newly arriving in South Korea are often referred to as "Turtles". The reason for the name is the nature of the one year tour that many service men and women serve in Korea. It takes them one year from the day they arrive to move the distance of 3 meters from the inprocessing building to the outprocessing building.^{[citation needed]}