With Balikatan 2015 barely a week away, a ranking US military commander formally paid a visit to
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) headquarters in Camp
Aguinaldo , Quezon City
Brig. Gen. Gary M. Brito, 25th Infantry Division deputy
commanding general, was formally welcomed by Joint Task Force-National Capital
Region head Brig. Gen. Apolinario Alobba.
Brito is in the Philippines
The 25th Infantry Division, a unit of the US Army Pacific,
will be participating in this annual combined training with the Philippine Army
and Philippine Marine Corps.
The 25th Infantry Division is based in Hawaiian
Islands .
Members of 25th Infantry Division will be training
shoulder-to-shoulder with JTF-NCR.
For the purpose of the exercise, the latter will be
transformed into the Joint Rapid Reaction Force, composed of the battalions
from the Philippine Army and the Philippine Marine Corps, as well as naval and
air units from the Philippine Navy and the Philippine Air Force.
The Philippine and US Forces will conduct amphibious,
mechanized, combat air support and air assault operations in Zambales and
culminating in combined artillery live fire exercise, at Crow Valley, Tarlac.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=752983
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