Thursday, August 6, 2015

Two PHL naval forces merged

From the Philippine News Agency (Aug 5): Two PHL naval forces merged

In line with efforts to protect and secure the country's vast maritime domains, Naval Forces North and its counterpart at the West was merged into Naval Forces North-West, according to Naval Task Force 11 commander Capt. Albert Mogol .

"So in line with the defense planning guidance of the SND (Secretary of National Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin) addressing common threat, the former Naval Forces North was merged with the Naval Forces West into Naval Forces North-West. So there are two naval task forces addressing security concerns within the area," Mogol said on Thursday.

The merger took place July 6.

Mogol said that Naval Forces North-West has two operating group, one of which is Naval Task Force 41 which covers the West Philippine Sea, and Naval Task Force 11 which is responsible for patrolling Northern Luzon waters and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions.

Mogol said that Naval Forces North-West covered maritime domains of five regions and 24 provinces, which included Batanes.

The latter province landed in the spotlight after several incidents of Taiwanese incursions were reported earlier.

He added that they had sufficient ships and personnel for this mission.

"In the north we have just established our automatic identification system in Batanes so we have already an eye in the north," Mogol said.

"It's a littoral observatory station, but we call it the littoral monitoring detachment in Batanes and manned by the Philippine Marines," he added.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=790586

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