With
"Balikatan 2014" now on its first week, American and Filipino Marines
will "assault a hostile enemy beach" at Ternate, Cavite
Joint
maneuvers will start 8: 30 a.m., said Philippine Navy Civil Military Operations
Group commander Col. Edgard A. Arevalo.
He
added both Marine contingents will be aboard the BRP Dagupan
City
He
said the objective of this exercise is defeat the "enemy" while
attaining the highest state of inter-operability through sharing of technique,
tactics, and procedures (TTPs) that American and Filipino sailors and Marines
practice in their respective armed forces.
The
"landing force" is comprised of Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) Special
Operations Platoon, PMC Force Reconnaissance, and US Marine Corps
Reconnaissance elements on board three of PMC's newly acquired small unit
riverine craft.
PN
Captain Virme Torralba is the commander of the Amphibious Task Force.
"The
capability to conduct amphibious operation -- that of being able to launch a
seaborne force from the ship to the shore -- is a competency unique to the the
Philippine Marine Corps as a type command under the Philippine Navy,"
Arevalo said.
"This
competency of the Philippine Marine Corps is the umbilical cord, so to speak,
that binds it with Philippine Fleet that provides the platforms or the ships
from where the Marines are landed to some hostile beaches to engage the enemies
entrenched inland," he added.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=642509
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