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U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan officials have completed a project to add "common sense" names to the numbered gates on their installations, according to a Wednesday news release.

Garrison commander Col. David Hall said the old system "made little sense," according to the release.

The gates were numbered, but the numbers didn’t follow any sort of sequence.

During a monthly community forum in August, Hall discussed the plan to officially rename the gates using nicknames already widely used in the community. Gate 52, for example, became the Commissary Gate since it sits adjacent to the commissary.

"We began an initiative to solicit recommendations from the community for a new naming convention," Hall said in Wednesday’s release.

The new gate names are:The new gate names are:Yongsan Main PostGate 1 — MP Station GateGate 2 — Camp Coiner Hill GateGate 3 — Friendship House GateGate 5 — Main Post Club GateGate 7 — MARFOR GateYongsan South PostGate 8 — CPAC GateGate 10 — Dragon Hill Lodge GateGate 12 — PX Gas Station GateGate 17 — South Post Visitor GateGate 19 — Hospital GateGate 37 — Blackhawk Village GateGate 52 — Commissary GateCamp CoinerGate 8B — Camp Coiner Walk-Thru GateGate 20 — Camp Coiner Visitor Center GateCamp KimGate 23 — Camp Kim GateCamp TangoGate 1 — Camp Tango Main GateGate 2 — Camp Tango Back GateGates 7 and 7A — Tango Expressway In GateGate 10A — Camp Tango Expressway Out GateGate 10 — Camp Tango Range GateCamp MarketGate 1 — Market Walk-Thru GateGate 2 — Market Main GateGate 12 — AAFES Truck GateDistrict Engineer (FED Compound)Gate 1 — FED Main GateGate 2 — FED Back GateK-16 Air BaseGate 1 — K-16 GateTransportation Motor PoolGate 29 — TMP GateSoebinggo CompoundGate 60 — Soebinggo GateHannam VillageGate 1 — Hannam Village Main GateGate 2 — Hannam Village Back GateReligious Retreat CenterGate 1 — RRC GateYonginGate 1 — Yongin GateIncheon Airport JMMTGate 1 — Incheon Main GateGate 3 — TARMAC GateKang Wha DoGate 1 — Kang Wha Do Gate

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