The Oshino Unit’s fifth rotation has been bid farewell ahead of its deployment to Afghanistan to take charge of oversight and security of reconstruction activities.

Army Chief of Staff Kim Sang-ki hosted a farewell ceremony at the International Peace Support Center in Incheon on Friday. Roughly one-thousand military personnel, including the soldiers being deployed and their family members, gathered at the center. Lieutenant Major Son Yoon-hyun organized the deployment and was also present.

The Oshino Unit's fifth rotation is made up of 350 soldiers. They will escort and guard the agents of the Korean Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), safeguard the Charikar site, and protect the South Korean embassy in Afghanistan over the next six months.

The Oshino unit has carried out around one-thousand-100 escort and safeguard operations since its first rotation was deployed to Afghanistan in July 2010.

Soldiers of the fifth rotation of the unit will leave the country at the end of May and in early June.