Kalinaw News: AFP holds Joint Exercise Dagat-Langit-Lupa

Posted to Kalinaw News (Sep 17, 2019): AFP holds Joint Exercise Dagat-Langit-Lupa

CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) officially opens its AFP Joint Exercise “DAGIT-PA” on Monday, 16 September 2019 at the AFP Education Training and Doctrine Command (APETDCOM), here.

DAGIT-PA which stands for “Dagat-Langit-Lupa” is an AFP-wide exercise aimed at enhancing interoperability during joint operations of the Philippine Navy, Philippine Air Force and Philippine Army. It is geared to level up existing exercises by integrating the AFP’s Special Operations Forces, Cyber Group, and Reservists.

Brigadier General Francisco Mendoza, the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Education and Training represented Major General Erickson Gloria, the AFP Deputy Chief of Staff as guest of honor and speakers in the opening. Also present were top military leaders, officers and enlisted personnel of the AFP.

“This year’s reiteration of the AFP Joint Exercise will help us strengthen our territorial defense capabilities and our conduct of internal security operations. The AFP Chief of Staff wants to ensure that we have the capability to apply the unilateral defense plan and AFP joint operating concept among many others to ensure the effectiveness of our troops when operating in a joint operations environment,” BGen Mendoza said.

More than 1,500 soldiers including reservists and selected AFP Wide Support and Separate Units will participate in the exercises. Among which are the Air/Maritime Interdiction Operation in Palawan; Amphibious Landing in Zambales; Airfield Seizure and Military Operations in Urban Terrain in Nueva Ecija; and Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise in Tarlac. These events will focus on capabilities development in maritime security, military operations in urban terrain, and amphibious operations.

Commodore Adeluis Bordado, Commander of AFPETDCOM serves as the Exercise Director. The AJEX was officially conceptualized and executed in 2017 under the auspices of the newly activated AFPETDCOM. The exercise traces its roots from the Navy-Air Force interoperability exercise dubbed as “DAGIT” which features air-sea battle concept training which started in the early 2000s.

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