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The government will station new fighter jets and two frigates as it reopens the former US naval base in Subic Bay to military use in a further response to Chinese expansionism in the disputed South China Sea.
One of the biggest US naval facilities in the world, Subic Bay was shut in 1992 after the Senate terminated a bases agreement with Washington at the end of the Cold War.
Manila converted the facility, which was never home to the Philippine military, into an economic zone.
Defense Undersecretary Pio Lorenzo Batino said the military signed an agreement in May with the zone’s operator, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, to use parts of the installation under a renewable 15-year lease.
http://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/national/phl-reopens-subic-bay-as-military-base/ar-AAd4TUC?ocid=mailsignout
One of the biggest US naval facilities in the world, Subic Bay was shut in 1992 after the Senate terminated a bases agreement with Washington at the end of the Cold War.
Manila converted the facility, which was never home to the Philippine military, into an economic zone.
Defense Undersecretary Pio Lorenzo Batino said the military signed an agreement in May with the zone’s operator, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, to use parts of the installation under a renewable 15-year lease.
http://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/national/phl-reopens-subic-bay-as-military-base/ar-AAd4TUC?ocid=mailsignout
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Only if there is a time machine that takes me back to the late 50s-early 60s era. Hopefully, with my age reversed also. It would kill me today. NO BALUTS!
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Yes Master Chief you can keep the Balut, I threw up a little in my mouth just reading your post.
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PO1 Michael Fullmer
tried one of those NASTY boys in the late 70's, and all I can say is...NEVER again. lol
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Good. Sign me up. PI should have accepted statehood when we offered it back in the 50's. Things would be very different if they had.
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I'll go back. I loved it. I just want it in writing that Pinatubo wont blow up in my face again.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - So many memories burst back with that video. Unfortunately, it's like a gathering at a funeral. It's the definition of bittersweet...
Thanks, Chip...
Thanks, Chip...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
My Pleasure Shipmate. It would be nice to see it again restored. When I left the last time it really was in rough shape having just weathered the largest volcanic eruption the world had seen in 100 years and a Typhoon at the same time. Everything was flat and covered in Volcanic Ash.
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