Inside the Jungle Survival Training of Balikatan Exercise

Inside the Jungle Survival Training of Balikatan Exercise

An inside look at the Balikatan exercise in the Philippines, highlighting jungle survival training and multinational military cooperation.
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Balikatan: Surviving the Jungle | Inside Look Pt. 2. | Transcript:

Jungle. The mission Balikatan is the largest multinational exercise here in the Philippines where we work with our Philippine partners to ensure that they are strengthening each other's military, ensuring that our technological upgrades are compatible, and we conduct exercises together to ensure that fact. Jungle. [screaming] Jungle. The partner forces are the Philippine military. It has invited us here to execute these operations such as Balikatan with them in order to promote the free and open

Indo-Pacific. Through that, they have been part of every mission plan, rehearsal, and execution, and support with the ground tactical commander. Jungle. I've been most proud of the collective outputs of the Task Force Saber team. They have come together from across the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade.

We have trained together for the last year. We have built up to this point both in readiness and operational execution, and we proved it the other day by executing the longest aerosol operation to date.

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