three , ladies and
gentlemen , marines and sailors . We
are proud to be here celebrating the
successful completion of this year's
common dog exercise .
I am incredibly honored to be part of
our longstanding alliance with the
Philippines which remains strong and
capable
common dog was a bilateral exercise
with the Philippine Marine Corps . That
is an annual exercise that we conduct
with them in order to just continue to
build the bilateral proficiency , ease
and efficiencies across both of our
forces . The command exercise bring us
the opportunity to work together
Through this exercise , the american
forces were able to go here and conduct
training together with us . Teamwork is
very important . You really need to
fight side by side with one another ,
fighting a common enemy . It gives us
the opportunity to have an increased
presence of american forces , thereby
having an active depends posture in the
Asia pacific region . We were able to
do amphibious raids with reconnaissance ,
humanitarian assistance , disaster
relief , basic infantry tactics
without Philippine Marine Corps
brethren . We want to make sure that we
go into battle with someone we know and
by coming to these exercises and
conducting these exercises , we're able
to do that . We build a rapport
together that if conflict ever occurs ,
we know how to react and we can do that
effectively together . Constant
training , constant identification of
things that don't work now allow us to
identify the things that will work in
the future . The marines have always
deployed . Usually they've they've
always deployed with their rifles and
with whatever else the Marine Corps has
given them to be successful in the
fight with today's technology . And
with the advances of what the Marine
Corps is doing with force design , we
have been able to develop capabilities
to provide the marines that they're
deployable with and makes them more
lethal force .