UNDER the banner of the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project (FilVetREP), 25 Filipinos Americans from across the U.S., including a living World War II veteran, were among the more than 5,000 participants who converged in White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on March 19 for the Bataan Memorial Death March (BMDM). Six Filipino…
Armed Forces Chief Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr. on Monday, December 3, announced the military is set to recommend another year of martial law in Mindanao. He cited the need to quell terrorists still “lurking” on the island. According to Galvez, the “clamor” of local government officials in Mindanao, regional peace and order councils and the…
ILLINOIS 20 September 2018 — “They were barely more than kids, only in their teens and early twenties.” This was how the 89 young American soldiers of the 192nd Tank Batallion from Maywood, Illinois were described when they arrived in Manila and Clark Field in the Philippines on 20 November 1941 to reinforce General Douglas…
HONOLULU 24 September 2018 – A Philippine military delegation attended the Philippines-United States Command and Control Interoperability Board (CCIB 18-2) meeting at Fort Shafter, Hawaii from 28 to 31 August 2018. The CCIB participants discussed policies, processes and other matters related to communications, electronics and information systems including cyber security, to enhance interoperability between U.S….
Philippine and U.S. military forces began on Monday, May 7, their annual military exercises — the first and largest since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte entered office. The annual Balikatan exercises — now in its 34th year — launched in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City with around 8,000 soldiers from the two countries. Nearly 3,000 soldiers from…
