The Philippine military announced yesterday
that the Philippine Navy (PN) will send
their 180 Navy work forces and one of its two Hamilton-class cutters to
join the international military exercise that will be held in Australia.
The exercise, named as "KAKADU
2014", is to be held from Aug.25 up to
Sept. 12 at Northern Australia Exercise Area.
The Philippine cutter, BRP Ramon Alcaraz,
will depart from Subic Bay in the northern Philippines on Sunday after the
scheduled Send-Off Ceremony.
KAKADU is one of the world’s largest
multinational maritime exercise hosted biennially by Australian Navy. According to a press release that was issued
by PN, this maritime exercise targets to
promote and improve regional interoperability and collaboration among the
participating navies from many different countries all over the world.
There are at least 12 countries that are reported to participate this year’s
exercise and these include Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Pakistan and
Australia as participants, while Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Thailand,
Vanuatu, South Korea and India. All these countries will be sending personnel as spectators.
As
for the record, this is the second time the Philippines sent its ship to
participate in the exercise since it began in 1993.
