Exercise Balikatan is the largest annual bilateral exercise conducted between the Philippines and the U.S. This year’s exercise, scheduled from 22 April-10 May, will be the 39th iteration. Balikatan directly supports the U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty by ensuring our partner forces are tactically proficient and interoperable, and by creating opportunities to develop capabilities and enhance military-to-military coordination. This year’s exercise schedule includes a... read more
Exercise Balikatan is the largest annual bilateral exercise conducted between the Philippines and the U.S. This year’s exercise, scheduled from 22 April-10 May, will be the 39th iteration. Balikatan directly supports the U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty by ensuring our partner forces are tactically proficient and interoperable, and by creating opportunities to develop capabilities and enhance military-to-military coordination. This year’s exercise schedule includes a command-and-control exercise (C2X), Humanitarian Civic Assistance (HCA) projects and engagements, and a series of field training events. Field training activities cover a wide variety of mission sets and will improve the participants capabilities in combined arms live-fire, information and intelligence sharing, communication between maneuver units, logistics operations, amphibious operations, and many others. show less
