{"id":17449,"date":"2014-06-28T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17449"},"modified":"2014-06-28T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:44:40","slug":"usn-fields-guided-missile-destroyer-in-carat-exercise-in-subic-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/28\/usn-fields-guided-missile-destroyer-in-carat-exercise-in-subic-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"USN fields guided-missile destroyer in CARAT exercise in Subic Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17450\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Subic.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17450\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Subic.jpeg\" alt=\"US Naval Base in Subic Bay \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Naval Base in Subic Bay \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ZAMBALES\u00a0&#8212; The United States Navy fielded two warships, one a missile-guided destroyer, in the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise with the Philippine Navy in Subic Bay that started Thursday and to go on until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year old missile-equipped USS John McCain docked at the Alava wharf inside the Subic Bay Freeport is 154 meters long, 20.4 meters high and with draft of 9.3 meters.<\/p>\n<p>It is based in Yokosuka, Japan with 33 officers, 34 chief petty officers and 262 men.<\/p>\n<p>It has a speed of 30 knots.<\/p>\n<p>Lt JG Blaine Shipley, anti-submarine warfare officer, said the ship has combination of missiles, torpedoes and machine guns in its missile deck.<\/p>\n<p>There are anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine missiles and also tomahawks and standard missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The warship has also a post office and an Automated Teller Machine for use of its sailors and officers.<\/p>\n<p>Shipley with chief petty officer Arnold Libongco, assistant engineering department head, showed various portions of the ship from the Pilot House or Bridge to the missile deck.<\/p>\n<p>Libongco is a Filipino from San Mateo, Rizal.<\/p>\n<p>Shipley said all charts in the Bridge are all electronically-operated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSS John McCain has not fought in any war but has undertaken exercises with the navies of the Philippines, Japan and Korea,\u201d Shipley said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there will be firing exercises like firing missiles on moving target during the CARAT.<\/p>\n<p>Another warship participating in CARAT in Subic Bay is USS Ashland, a dock landing ship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">A third ship which was not identified is in Sangley Point in Cavite.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAMBALES\u00a0&#8212; The United States Navy fielded two warships, one a missile-guided destroyer, in the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[6129,6130,6128],"class_list":["post-17449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-carat-exercise","tag-subic-bay","tag-usn","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}