- Title: PHILIPPINES: U.S SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN PHILIPPINES
- Date: 22nd April 2003
- Summary: (W4)CLARK FIELD, ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES (APRIL 22, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS, OF U.S TROOPS EMERGING FROM PLANE (2 SHOTS) 0.16 2. WIDE OF U.S FLAG ON THE TAIL OF THE PLANE 0.20 3. SLV US TROOPS ON THE GROUND 0.30 4. SMV TROOPS WALKING ON THE TARMAC (2 SHOTS) 0.48 5. WIDE OF U.S SOLDIERS AND PLANE 0.53 6. SLV TROOPS ENTERING TERMINAL 1.01 7. SMV SOLDIERS FILLING UP QUARANTINE HEALTH FORM 1.05 8. VARIOUS, CLOSE OF HEALTH FORM (2 SHOTS) 1.23 9. SLV SOLDIERS WALKING PAST CIVILIAN FILIPINO QUARANTINE OFFICER WEARING MASK 1.28 10. SLV TROOPS IN IMMIGRATION AREA OF TERMINAL 1.31 11. SMV TROOPS CLAIMING BAGS 1.39 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) CAPTAIN BURRELL PARMER, A U.S MILITARY SPOKESMAN SAYING "American forces are always ready to deploy, to take part in any type of outside operation world-wide and that's one thing why we are here now to do is to improve our readiness with the armed forces of the Philippines to make sure readiness is key because you do not want to go anywhere and you get called upon and it takes you a week or four or five days to be prepared. If you call the U.S. we are there within twenty four hours." 2.02 12. SLV U.S TROOPS COLLECTING FORMS 2.08 13. SMV OF US TROOPS IN LINE 2.12 14. CLOSE OF SOLDIERS LUGGAGE/ BACKPACKS 2.18 15. SCU U.S SOLDIER 2.24 16. WIDE OF U.S SOLDIERS COLLECTING BAGS 2.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CLARK FIELD, ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES
- Country: Philippines
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- Story Text: More than 100 U.S. soldiers have arrived in the
Philippines to take part in joint training exercises with
colleagues from the Philippines army. These latest arrivals
join hundreds of other U.S troops in other parts of the vast
archipelago who are training and fighting alongside their
counterparts against Muslim rebel groups in the south of the
island chain.
The latest contingent of U.S soldiers arrived aboard a
commercial flight on Tuesday (April 22) at Clark Air Base,
north of Manila, which used to be controlled by the United
States before Washington gave the airfield and a naval station
at Subic Bay back to the Philippines in the early 1990s.
The soldiers will train alongside their Philippine
counterparts in "Exercise Balikatan 2003", Filipino for
"shoulder-to-shoulder".
The latest group brings the total of U.S. forces in the
Philippines to approximately 1,000. Some of the US soldiers
have taken up controversial combat roles alongside Philippine
soldiers fighting rebel Muslims in the southern islands of the
predominantly Catholic republic.
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