Story by Tech. Sgt. John Linzmeier | 154th Wing, Hawaii Air National Guard | 06.05.2025
Hawaii National Guard medical professionals conducted their fourth annual Tactical Combat Casualty Care exchange with the Armed Forces of the Philippines from May 18-30 at Camp O’Donnell, training 85 personnel in life-saving skills through the State Partnership Program. The program marked a milestone by qualifying AFP instructors to teach future courses, enhancing their peacekeeping......
Courtesy Story | Exercise Balikatan | 04.07.2025
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City, Philippines – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the U.S. military are joining forces for the 40th iteration of Exercise Balikatan, the largest annual bilateral training exercise between the two allies, from April 21 to May 9. Building on the complexities and achievements of past iterations, this year’s exercise will demonstrate the progress in the......
Story by Spc. Wyatt Moore | 28th Public Affairs Detachment | 06.10.2024
Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Hebert and his birth mother travel back to the places where she had to make her most difficult sacrifice, to give him up for adoption. Revisiting his past helps him better understand his passion for selfless service and the U.S. Army....
Story by Cpl. Aidan Hekker | 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 05.12.2024
PALAWAN, Philippines – As a young man from Cebu Island with a dream of joining the Philippine Air Force, Charles Gutierrez enrolled at the Philippine State College of Aeronautics to study aircraft maintenance. There, he pursued his associate’s degree but did not complete the bachelor’s degree requirement for him to join the Philippine Air Force. However, Gutierrez still longed for a......
Courtesy Story | Exercise Balikatan | 05.10.2024
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City, Philippines – The Armed Forces of the Philippines hosted the closing ceremony of Exercise Balikatan 2024, marking the successful conclusion of the largest annual combined military exercise between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America....
Courtesy Story | Exercise Balikatan | 05.08.2024
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City, Philippines – Philippine, U.S. and Australian military forces integrated land, sea and air platforms to simultaneously sense, target, strike and destroy a decommissioned ship off the western coast of Northern Luzon today....
Courtesy Story | Exercise Balikatan | 05.06.2024
LA PAZ SAND DUNES, Laoag City, Philippines – Combined forces from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and U.S. military rehearsed defending the coastline today during a Balikatan counter-landing live-fire exercise....
Story by Staff Sgt. Dana Beesley | Exercise Balikatan | 04.29.2024
Service members from the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps gathered at the Armed Forces of the Philippines Civil-Military Operations school to conduct a subject matter expert exchange on humanitarian civic assistance best practices during Exercise Balikatan 24 at Camp Aguinaldo, Philippines, April 29, 2024. During the exchange, attendees discussed the AFP’s and U.S. military’s civil affairs......
