Story by Ensign Ammar Campa-Najjar | Exercise Balikatan | 04.26.2025
BASCO, Batanes, Philippines – U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Littoral Regiment deployed the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) for the first time during Exercise Balikatan 2025 on Batan Island, April 26....
Story by 2nd Lt. Lauri Schleicher | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific | 05.11.2023
The SS Curtiss, with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16 forward embarked, is deployed in support of Immortal Warrior 23, an exercise which activates the Maritime Administration-operated ship to provide expeditionary intermediate-level aircraft maintenance and supply for U.S. and potentially Allied and Partner forces....
Story by Master Sgt. Charles McKelvey | Exercise Balikatan | 04.26.2023
U.S. Marines and Sailors from I Marine Expeditionary Force worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the Armed Forces of the Philippines and other regional allies during Exercise Balikatan 2023 for the first time since 2017. I MEF participated in a command post exercise, which included the first-ever cyber training between the two allies....
Courtesy Story | Exercise Balikatan | 04.08.2022
The Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) and the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) participated in the Philippine-led exercise Balikatan March 28 to April 8....
Story by Capt. Karen Jensen | 1st Marine Aircraft Wing | 03.28.2022
U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 363, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing executed one of the longest maritime VMM self-deployment flights in 1st Marine Aircraft Wing history in preparation for Balikatan 2022. The total distance flown by the MV-22 Ospreys was over 4,730 nautical miles....
Story by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal | DMA Pacific - Hawaii Media Bureau | 04.24.2015
The Armed Forces of the Philippines trained shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. Hawaii Army National Guard soldiers, practicing techniques to enter collapsed buildings effectively in case of a real world urban search and rescue scenario as part of exercise Balikatan, April 24....
Story by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal | DMA Pacific - Hawaii Media Bureau | 04.23.2015
U.S. Army soldiers with the 324th Psychological Operations Company, Detachment 1230 visited the barangay, or village, Bahile, to inform community members about exercise Balikatan 2015 and strengthen relationships with the Philippines, April 23....
Story by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal | DMA Pacific - Hawaii Media Bureau | 04.22.2015
Health workers attending exercise Balikatan’s First Responder Training Course prepared to put their patient care skills to the test as an announcement echoed throughout the training Coliseum....
