{"id":120242,"date":"2017-09-29T03:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T07:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=120242"},"modified":"2017-09-29T03:26:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T07:26:30","slug":"ph-us-discuss-joint-exercises-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/29\/ph-us-discuss-joint-exercises-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"PH, US discuss joint exercises in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_106282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106282\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Defense-Secretary-Delfin-Lorenzana-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106282\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Defense-Secretary-Delfin-Lorenzana-1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. (PNA photo)\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Defense-Secretary-Delfin-Lorenzana-1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Defense-Secretary-Delfin-Lorenzana-1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Ranking Filipino military officials are now in Hawaii to discuss with their American counterparts possible joint exercises that will be held in the\u00a0Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana when asked what joint military exercises the Philippines can conduct with its American allies following the successful conclusion of &#8220;Tempest Wind&#8221; on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tempest Wind, which focused solely on anti-terrorism drills, started on Sept. 18 at various locations in the Philippines and Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exercises to be held next year is (now) being discussed in Hawaii with the (AFP) chief-of-staff (Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o) and some of the Philippine commanders. They all went to Hawaii to attend the MDB-SEB (Mutual Defense Board-Security Engagement Board) with their counterpart and they will discuss there what exercises (that) will be pursued, what will be removed and what will be downgraded,&#8221; Lorenzana said.<\/p>\n<p>Updates of the matter will be given by the AFP chief once he returns home next week, he added.<\/p>\n<p>One of the well-known Philippines-US joint military exercises is the annual &#8220;Balikatan&#8221; where Filipino and American troops conduct drills to enhance their inter-operability in various scenarios including humanitarian assistance and disaster response, anti-terrorism, to name a few.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Ranking Filipino military officials are now in Hawaii to discuss with their American counterparts possible joint exercises that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":106282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[1226,25302,1479,352],"class_list":["post-120242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-hawaii","tag-joint-exercises","tag-ph","tag-us","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}