AFP to host PASOL Planning Group

From the Philippine News Agency (May 31): AFP to host PASOL Planning Group

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will host the Planning Group of this year's Pacific Area Senior Officers Logistics Seminar (PASOL).

PASOL is one of the biggest gathering of military logistics delegates from 31 member states.

Col. Noel Detoyato, AFP public affairs office chief, said PASOL Planning Group 45 will have its meeting at the Subic Bay Freeport Complex, Olongapo City from Wednesday until Saturday.

The latter will prepare the agenda for the actual PASOLS gathering later this year in Singapore, where they will craft the PASOLS Mutual Logistics Support Handbook.

It will also evaluate the progress of on-going initiatives, review accomplished discussions and workshops, and review detailed arrangements and reports for the annual meeting.

The handbook will serve as a guide for planning procedures and standardized approaches for coordination to the member nations, which this year will focus on humanitarian assistance and disaster response.

Given the focus of the meeting this year, member nations unanimously requested the presentation of lessons learned from Supertyphoon "Haiyan" (Yolanda) as applied to the preparations for the coming of Typhoon "Hagupit".

PASOLS is a dynamic and growing organization of nations from the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean region.

Established in 1971, it has since grown to accommodate up to 130 delegates annually composed of star-ranked and senior logistics military officers.

Its discussions have been non-political and has become a forum for information sharing, regional cooperation, and logistical inter-operability.

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