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Joint RP-US naval war games begin in Mindanao

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Tuesday, 03 July 2012 13:06

Two US ships arrived in the southern Philippines to participate Monday for a nine-day joint naval war games with local military forces.
The USS Vandegrift and the US Coast Guard ship Waesche arrived in the port of General Santos City over the weekend.

Vandegrift’s Commanding Officer CDR Brandon Bryan and Commodore Dave Welch together with other US Navy officers met with their Filipino counterparts for the annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2012.

The exercise would be held in the Mindanao Sea, off the coasts of General Santos City and nearby Sarangani province.
Last May, the US Navy and US Marine Corps also held a similar exercise with the Royal Thai Navy, Indonesia and Malaysia navies.

CARAT consists of a series of bilateral military exercises between the US Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Timor Leste also joined the exercise for the first time.

by: Mindanao Examiner


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+2 #3 ibrahim 2012-07-04 15:16
if the philippines is really serious in protecting its sovereignty. they must start first with sabah, which is more precious than those shoals. sabah belongs to the philippines and the manila government is doing nothing.
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+2 #2 ibrahim 2012-07-04 15:12
philippines government must put priority first in solving its internal problems and boosting its internal defense against rebels and terorrists, specially in mindanao, the people have long suffer and being neglected by the government.
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+1 #1 Bob 2012-07-03 16:10
These exercises are designed to show China that they we will not let them push us around... Maton can never be aloud to win. We have powerful friends. But we must also be able to defend ourselves.

I want to know why we have not signed a visiting forces agreement with Australia.

It has been sitting in our senate awaiting a signature for FIVE years... This is many thousands of millions of peso in employment, training and modern equipment that we so desperately need being wasted by lazy representatives .
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