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Hawaii Marines Field New Weapons in the Philippines A unit of Hawaii Marines is in the Philippines fielding new weapons for the first time amid simmering tensions with China.
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US Forces Deploy Anti-Ship Missiles in Philippines and Stage Live-Fire Drills Near China Hotspots About 9,000 American and 5,000 Filipino military personnel took part in the combat maneuvers.
US General Says Allied Forces Can Repel Asia Aggression as Philippines Combat Drills Open Thousands of allied American and Filipino forces opened annual combat drills that are set to include repelling an island...
US and Philippine Joint Combat Drills Show Trump Is Not Scaling Back on South China Sea Region A senior Philippine military official said U.S. and Filipino forces will undertake battle-readiness exercises, including live...
Hegseth Tells Philippines the Trump Administration Will Ramp Up Deterrence Against China Threat The Philippines was the first stop in U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's first trip to Asia. He is due to travel next to...
Ex-Philippine Leader Duterte Arrested in Drug War Case Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is under police custody after the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest...
Canada and Philippines Will Sign a Key Defense Pact to Boost Combat Drills and Military Ties Canada and the Philippines, both vocal critics of China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the disputed South China Sea...
Rescuers Find Philippine Fighter Jet's Wreckage and the Bodies of 2 Pilots Deployed to Fight Rebels Rescuers found the wreckage of a Philippine fighter jet and the bodies of its two pilots in a mountainous region in the...
Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it...
Tweaks to Army's Physical Fitness Test Are Relatively Modest The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest...
White House Says Trump’s Proposal to Rename Veterans Day Has Been Scrapped The White House has backed off President Donald Trump’s stunning social media proposal to change the name of Veterans Day to...
Weather and Night Vision Goggles Were Likely Factors in Marine Corps Helicopter Crash, Report Finds The CH-53 Super Stallion crashed Feb. 6, 2024, during a late night flight when it hit a mountain near Pine Valley, California...
Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the...
![decommissioned Philippine Navy BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19) takes on water before sinking](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-05/ApNewsroom_Philippines_US_Combat_Drills_25019.jpg?itok=Zgmp4jdL "In this handout photo, provided by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office (PAO), the decommissioned Philippine Navy BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19) takes on water before sinking while being positioned as vessel target prompting the cancellation of a live-fire drill as part of a joint US-Philippines military exercises called Balikatan or "shoulder to shoulder" approximately 30 nautical miles west of San Antonio, Zambales, Philippines on Monday, May 5, 2025. (Armed Forces of the Philippines PAO via AP)")
