Troops of the United States of
America and the Philippines
have jointly started the conduct of a series of disaster response trainings in
the province of Capiz
Report reaching here Wednesday afternoon said the
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Exercise has formally took off on
Tuesday thru the Basic First Responders Training held in Camp Macario Peralta,
headquarters of the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry (Spearhead) Division (3ID)
based in Jamindan, Capiz.
Close to 105 participants that included 82 military
personnel from the 3ID, Philippine Army, 13 reservists from the 6th Regional
Community Defense Group and 10 personnel from the Capiz Provincial Risk
Reduction and Management Council participated in the training.
The US and Philippine troops will also conduct a series of
practical exercises in basic life support, primary medical care, rescue
procedures and mass evacuation simulation as well as seminar in civil-military
operations exchange and humanitarian assistance and disaster response.
Lieutenant Commander Catherine Eyrich, head of US Joint
Civil-Military Operations Task Force for Balikatan Exercise in Panay, said the
joint exercise aims to continue the active military-to-military partnership
between the Armed Forces of the Philippines
Capiz was chosen as venue for the joint US-PHL Balikatan
Exercise 2015 considering that the province is one of areas in the region that
was devastated by the super typhoon Yolanda in November 2013.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=751486
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