US-Philippines to Hold South China Sea Naval Drill

[mota bhai 2,675]

The Philippines and the U.S. will hold joint naval drills near a disputed part of the South China Sea later this month.

On Thursday Reuters reported that the U.S. and the Philippines will hold the naval drill approximately 80 miles from the Scarborough Shoal where Chinese vessels are on continuous patrol. The report said, “Five warships, including a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, and about 1,000 troops will take part in the week-long Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) exercises, which include live-fire drills 64km off Zambales, on the western shores of the Philippine island of Luzon.”

Philippine media reports indicate that the drills will last from June 26-July 1, and will include personnel and equipment from the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and their Philippine counterparts. The U.S. side will bring the USS Halsey, an Arleigh Burke-class missile-guided destroyer; the USS Ashland, a dock landing ship; and the USS Safeguard, a rescue ship, to the Philippines for the exercise. Other reports said that the U.S. will also have an “underwater construction team, Naval seabees, choppers, [an] SH60B seahawk, [a] mobile diving salvage unit, [an] explosive ordnance disposal unit, two landing craft air cushion, [and] company size amphibious assault vehicles” at the exercise.

On the other hand, the Philippines will be represented at the exercise by the Ramon Alcaraz, a former U.S. coastguard cutter, and the Emilio Jacinto, a former Hong Kong-based British Royal Navy ship. It will also “use Augusta helicopters, one Islander, a Naval Special Operations Group EOD team, three diving teams, two special boat teams, and two marine companies, [a] communications team, [a] band and logistics team and Seabees.”

A spokesperson for the Philippine military, Lieutenant Junior Grade Rommel Rodriguez, told local media: “This has nothing to do with the Philippines and China dispute or the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea,” using the Philippine name for the South China Sea.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/us-philippines-to-hold-south-china-sea-naval-drill/

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

The Philippines and the U.S. will hold joint naval drills near a disputed part of the South China Sea later this month.

On Thursday Reuters reported that the U.S. and the Philippines will hold the naval drill approximately 80 miles from the Scarborough Shoal where Chinese vessels are on continuous patrol. The report said, “Five warships, including a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, and about 1,000 troops will take part in the week-long Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) exercises, which include live-fire drills 64km off Zambales, on the western shores of the Philippine island of Luzon.”

Philippine media reports indicate that the drills will last from June 26-July 1, and will include personnel and equipment from the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and their Philippine counterparts. The U.S. side will bring the USS Halsey, an Arleigh Burke-class missile-guided destroyer; the USS Ashland, a dock landing ship; and the USS Safeguard, a rescue ship, to the Philippines for the exercise. Other reports said that the U.S. will also have an “underwater construction team, Naval seabees, choppers, [an] SH60B seahawk, [a] mobile diving salvage unit, [an] explosive ordnance disposal unit, two landing craft air cushion, [and] company size amphibious assault vehicles” at the exercise.

On the other hand, the Philippines will be represented at the exercise by the Ramon Alcaraz, a former U.S. coastguard cutter, and the Emilio Jacinto, a former Hong Kong-based British Royal Navy ship. It will also “use Augusta helicopters, one Islander, a Naval Special Operations Group EOD team, three diving teams, two special boat teams, and two marine companies, [a] communications team, [a] band and logistics team and Seabees.”

A spokesperson for the Philippine military, Lieutenant Junior Grade Rommel Rodriguez, told local media: “This has nothing to do with the Philippines and China dispute or the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea,” using the Philippine name for the South China Sea.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/us-philippines-to-hold-south-china-sea-naval-drill/

Just freaking wonderful. I am going for a Month in Sept. Now they gonna stat a shooting war. Thank you obama

[MyLittlePony 340]

World war would start in Philippines.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Well at least it will mean more income for the Philippines ??

World war would start in Philippines.

What? If NB goes there?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Well at least it will mean more income for the Philippines ??

What? If NB goes there?

I am going to spend my month there teaching Emglish Grammar to kids

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

I am going to spend my month there teaching Emglish Grammar to kids

Emglish, eh? this will set the Kountry back 50 or moor years...

[MyLittlePony 340]

Count me in i need a grammar teacher.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Count me in i need a grammar teacher.

Here are your words for tomorrow

1) HEIDI - (noun) - Greeting

2) HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting. Usage: "Heidi, hire yew?"

3) BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow". Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

4) JAWJUH - (noun) - the state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck and took it to

Lanner."

5) BAMMER - (noun) - the state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayam. Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvments." (Correction: Capitol is Montgomery - thanks, G. MacCrone!)

6) MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar dvision. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."

7) THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

8) BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops and yeast. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a nutter bare."

9) IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native". Usage: "Them Bammer boys shore are ignert!"

10) RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage: "Ah thank ah left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

11) ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "Ah shore hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

12) FAR - (noun) - A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thang's gonna catch far."

13) TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage: "Gee, ah hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."

14) TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, ah shore do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."

15) RETARD - (verb) - To stop working. Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65."

16) FAT - (noun and verb) - A battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat. Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup yuh."

17) RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

18) CHEER - (adverb) - In this place. Usage: "Jest set that bare rat cheer."

19) FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic. Usage: "I cuddin't unnerstan a wurd he sed... mus be from some farn country."

20) DID - (adjective) - Not alive. Usage: "He's did, Jim."

21) ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas containing oxygen. Usage: "He cain't breath ... give 'im some are!"

22) BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: "Boy, stay away from that there bob war fence."

23) JEW HERE - (pronoun and verb) - Contraction. Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?

24) HAZE - (pronoun and verb) - A contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart? Nah...haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a minnit'n 'is laf."

25) SEED - (verb) - Past tense of "to see". Usage: "Ah ain't never seed Noo Yawk City."

26) VIEW - (verb and pronoun) - Contraction. Usage: "Ah ain't never seed Noo Yawk City ... view?"

27) GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert."

28) FIXIN' - (verb) - Preparing to. Usage: "Ah's just fixin' to do that now."

NEW ADDITIONS (2/2/06):

29) JEETJET (complete sentence) - Did you eat yet?

30) YONTEW (complete sentence) - Do you want to?

31) TWIRLY-TWEET (complete sentence) - Too early to eat.

NEW ADDITION (2/16/06):

32) TRAMPOLINE - (noun) - A bed that you can't get in trouble for jumping on.

NEW ADDITION (5/31/06):

33) WRENCH OFF (verb) - what you do instead of taking a shower. Usage: "Let me go wrench off before we go out tonight."

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Allow me to assist...

34) Ya'll - (pronoun) - you

35) All Ya'll - (plural pronoun) - all of you. Can be shortened using you'ns (Pronounced Yoons)

[Sousuke 1,214]

It seems only fair to have a Naval war. The Army & Airforce have gotten all the attention for 4 decades.

Edited June 23, 2014 by Sousuke

[GandD 5,966]

It seems only fair to have a Naval war. The Army & Airforce have gotten all the attention for 4 decades.

Show offs........

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

It seems only fair to have a Naval war. The Army & Airforce have gotten all the attention for 4 decades.

One word

Seals

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Are we talking o-ring, or carbon?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Are we talking o-ring, or carbon?

O-ring