Our
Philippine Marines Corps (PMC) just had a major upgrade capability and
experience, thanks to the yearly Balikatan exercises.
Amphibiouslanding
exercise was held at the Naval Education Training and Doctrines Command in San
Antonio, Zambales. The opportunity to get a first hand look on the capabilities
of the American amphibious assault vehicles (AAV) as we wait for our own Korean
made amphibious assault vehicles.
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| US Marine Corps' Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) which gave the much needed training and familiarization for our own Philippine Marines (photo credit to owner) |
"The
amphibious operation serial in this year’s iteration of 'Balikatan' was a good
opportunity for our PMC to train with the US in the operation of a similar
capability," Navy spokesperson, Captain Jonathan Zata said in a message to
the Philippine News Agency(PNA) when asked on whether the just-concluded
landing exercise is part of ongoing efforts to train the PMC on the operations
and maintenance of AAVs.
Zata added
that the first four AAVs out of the eight ordered from South Korea will be
arriving next month.
"The
AAV project is within schedule and projected to arrive within May 2019,"
the PN spokesperson said.
The
Philippine Navy deployed the BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS-16), BRP Tarlac (LD-601), an
AugustaWestland (AW-109) helicopter and contingents from the Naval Special
Operations Group, and the Marines Special Operations Group for the sea series
of this year's "Balikatan" exercise which started last April 1 and
will formally end on Friday, April 12.
These units
and assets “will conduct naval maneuvers and live-fire exercises, maritime
special operations serials such as VBSS (visit, board, search-and-seizure), gas
oil platform recovery, and similar spec-ops combined training".
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Report from PNA
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