This year's "Balikatan" exercises are different
from the others as both American and Filipino units have focused a lot of
efforts in providing higher level of command-and-control, a ranking US
"(The) 'Balikatan' this year was a little bit unique
and that we focused a lot of efforts at the higher level of command-and-control
so what you saw here today are small unit leaders are working very closely
together," US "Balikatan" exercise director Lt. Gen. John Toolan
said.
He was referring to Thursday's live-fire exercises at Crow Valley
Toolan also said both the Philippines
and the US
"And I think we made a lot of progress there," he
added.
Toolan stressed that this year's "Balikatan"
exercise is a sort of a graduation exercise as a lot of interesting things were
done during the two-week maneuvers which started last April 4 and will end on
Friday.
"This year we have done a lot of interesting things, we
have operated in a distributed method with forces, small forces with
capabilities to bring lethal fires to bear, on the target, we have actually
worked very closely with the headquarters, at the command-and-control level so
that we've built in command-and-control and I think that the coordination
mechanism (will allow to work) in a combined fashion," he added.
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