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Published: 05 May 2014
CAMP GENERAL EMILIO AGUINALDO, Quezon City –
Three thousand Filipino soldiers and 2,500 American soldiers will work
together ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ in this year’s PH-US Balikatan which
opened today, May 5 at the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)
Commissioned Officers Club.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del
Rosario attended as guest of honor and speaker. He is joined by
Secretary of National Defense Voltaire T. Gazmin, U.S. Ambassador to the
Philippines Philip Goldberg, and AFP Chief of Staff General Emmanuel T.
Bautista.
This year’s exercise is the 30th
iteration of Balikatan in the country, and will run until May 16. It
will focus on Maritime Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster
Response (HADR), and Humanitarian Civic Assistance (HCA).
The staff planning exercises are slated
here in Camp Aguinaldo and in Western Command in Puerto Princesa while
the field training exercises will be conducted in military camps in
Luzon.
Among the field training events are the
Maritime Surveillance Systems Demonstration at the Naval Education and
Training Command in Zambales; Demonstration on Air Movement, Live Fire,
Counter Improvised Explosives Devices and Mass Casualty Response at Fort
Magsaysay; Combined Cooperative Healthcare Engagement in Tacloban,
Leyte; Showcase of Philippine Air Force and US Air Power at Clark Air
Base; Urban Search and Rescue field training exercises at Camp
Lapu-Lapu, Cebu City; and Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise at Crow
Valley Range in Tarlac.
Meanwhile, Filipino and U.S. forces
began conducting community infrastructure projects in Legazpi City,
Albay last week. This is part of Balikatan’s HCA that will focus on
revitalizing the interoperability of the Philippines and U.S. militaries
through the conduct of disaster rehabilitation and rural development
projects. These will materialize through the Engineering Civic-Action
Programs (ENCAP), Cooperative Health Engagements (CHE), Symposiums, and
Community Relation (COMREL) activities.
Exercise Balikatan is an annual
bilateral combined exercise initiated by the governments of the Republic
of the Philippines and United States. It is structured to further
develop the AFP in crisis-action planning, enhancing its ability to
effectively conduct counterterrorism operations, and promote
interoperability between participating countries. It will also
demonstrate cooperation and interoperability between the Philippines and
the U.S., consistent with the Mutual Defense Treaty and Visiting Forces
Agreement, as we continue our commitment to train, share information
and provide support to each other.
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