Ospreys Flying In Philippines; Up To 2K Marines Likely By Next Week

Ospreys Flying In Philippines; Up To 2K Marines Likely By Next Week
Ospreys Flying In Philippines; Up To 2K Marines Likely By Next Week

PENTAGON: If there were ever any doubts about the strength of the American commitment to the Philippines, they can be laid to rest by the substantial and growing military rescue forces heading into that beleaguered island state. “The Philippines is a treaty ally and the United States stands by its friends and allies in time…

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Pentagon, Congress Must Break ‘Logjam’ Over Japan, Guam Bases: CSIS

CAPITOL HILL: Senate Armed Services Committee leaders released a 100-plus-page report on the administration’s Asia strategy today, including — perhaps inadvertently — four pages of comments from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Congress commissioned the study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the authorization bill for fiscal year 2012. SASC chairman Sen. Carl…

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V-22s Cleared For Okinawa And Heads To UK Air Shows

The Pentagon and the Japanese government announced early Friday that a dozen Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys are being shipped to Japan for deployment on Okinawa but the planes won’t fly until investigations into two recent crashes of the tiltrotor troop transport are complete. The announcement – issued the same day four MV-22s were scheduled to…

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