Units of the American 1st Marine Air Wing, 3rd Marine
Division and the Philippine Marine Corps Battalion Landing Team 1 kicked-off
this year’s second iteration of Aviation Assault Support Exercise (AASE)
Monday.
The latter is a three-week exercise designed to expand and
promote cooperative training opportunities with the Armed Forces of the Philippines
“It gives our guys a unique training environments that they
are not use to, as well as an opportunity to learn from our Philippine
counterparts,” US Air Force operation officer, Joint US Military Assistance
Group Lt. Col. Teodoro Apalisok, said.
“We learn from them and they learn from us,” he added.
The exercise is currently on its third year, each year
containing two iterations.
The arrival of US Marines and aircraft at Clark Air Base set
the stage for a variety of upcoming bilateral engagements to include fast-rope
repelling, casualty evacuation drills, day and night platoon size raids and
integrated fires training.
This exercise provides training, learning and instruction
opportunities for all participants.
Participating parties include US Marine Corps, Philippine
Air Force and Philippine Marine Corps.
Unique to this year will be the "unitization" of
new U aircraft.
“Traditionally we have only used the MV-22 in this exercise
to conduct many of the engagements,” Apalisok said.
“However, this year we will be implementing the CH-53 and
the UH-1Y helicopters.”
AASE will take place at Basa Air Base, Clark Air Base, both
in Pampanga and Crow
Valley Range
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