Zamboanga City --The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is redeploying a
battalion of marine troops to beef up the coastal security in the province of Tawi-Tawi
Maj. Filemon Tan Jr., Western Mindano Command (Westmincom)
spokesman, on Wednesday said the Marine Battalion Landing Team-9 (MBLT-9) will
be pulled out from this city and will be deployed in Tawi-Tawi.
Tan said the MBLT-9 troops will depart this city following
the send-off ceremony on Thursday (May 19) to be held at the headquarters of
the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (Navforwem) in this city.
Tan stressed the deployment of the MBLT-9 troops to
Tawi-Tawi is just a preemptive move of Westmincom citing there is no security
threat in that province.
“Okay naman sa Tawi-Tawi kaya lang preemptive yong ginagawa
natin. Bago may mangyari, dapat may puwersa na doon,” he added.
He said the deployment of the MBLT-9 to Tawi-Tawi is in
accordance to the military doctrine that the marines should be based in islands
or near the shorelines.
He said the Army’s 21st Infantry Battalion (IB) will replace
the MBLT-9 in this city.
The AFP has deployed marine troops to help improve the peace
and order situation in this city since the infamous 21-day siege in September
2013.
The first to be deployed here was the MBLT-1, which was
later replaced by the MBLT-9.
Tan said the 21st IB troops will be deployed in all the
areas that will be vacated by the MBLT-9 troops.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=886473
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