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U.S. Navy SEALs join their Filipino counterparts during a 2000 joint counter-terrorism exercise in a remote Philippine village, aimed at helping Philippine forces to destroy the Islamist extremist terror group Abu Sayyaf.
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES -- Philippine Army Cpl. Jose Dapat, an engineer with the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ 51st Engineer Battalion, operates a grater as Navy Seaman Justin Holsinger, a Seabee with the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7, looks on during a civil engineering project to build a farm-to-market road for farmers in San Juan in the province of Laguna. The project is part of Talon Vision 08, an annual bi-lateral exercise led by MAG-36 that is conducted between the United States Military Forces and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to promote the cooperative military efforts of the two countries. (Photo by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Tyler J. Hlavac)

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TERNATE, Republic of the Philippines (Feb. 26, 2008) -- Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, greets children lining the driveway to Maragondon National High School here Feb. 26. U.S. Ambassador Kristie Kenney, and Gen. Hermogenes C. Esperon, Jr., Chief of Staff for the Armed Forces of the Philippines follow Keating, as they check on construction progress that U.S. and Filipino Marines have made on the school as part of Balikatan 2008. During the exercise, military service members from the U.S. and the Republic of the Philippines are working together to improve maritime security and ensure humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts are efficient and effective. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jason Shepherd)

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BASAK, MARAWI, Philippines (Feb. 20, 2008) -- Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and U.S. military engineers work together to build an elementary school here Feb. 20 for the local community during one of the 24th annual Balikatan humanitarian assistance programs in the Republic of the Philippines. Basak Elementary School is one of six schools that are being constructed or renovated by AFP and U.S. military construction teams. True to the meaning of the word balikatan, meaning 'shoulder-to-shoulder', Philippine and U.S. forces are shouldering the load together to help the greatest possible number of people in need. (U.S. Navy Photo by MCC Gabe Puello)

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JOLO, Philippines (July 11, 2007) - Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 14, assigned to the "Swift Intruders" of Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, comes ashore to pick up Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7 and Amphibious Construction Battalion (ACB) 1 at the completion of their mission in the Philippines. Members of NMCB-7 and ACB-1, with medical support from the Third Medical Battalion, worked together with Filipino Seabees from the First Construction Battalion in support of Pacific Partnership 2007. The mission, a four-month humanitarian assistance mission to Southeast Asia and Oceania includes specialized medical care and various construction and engineering projects. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Paul D. Williams

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U.S. Marine Corps CH-46E helicopters sit on the tarmac at Clark Field, Philippines, Feb. 17, 2006, waiting to be loaded with relief supplies for victims of the Feb. 17, 2006, landslide in St. Bernard, Philippines. The relief supplies were flown to Clark from Okinawa, Japan. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Marine Corps Master Sgt. Lawrence Torres III

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In this photo released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines on February 23, 2008 shows US and Philippines soldiers during combined Amphibious Assault Vehicle exercise in Crow Valley military reservation in Tarlac province north of Manila on February 20, 2008 as part of the annual Balikatan (shoulter-to-shoulder) exercises between the US and Philippine military troops. Several exercises are being conducted around the country to enhance interoperability of the US and Philippine forces. Aside from military exercises, extensive humanitarian assistance are being including in held in the southern region of Mindanao, where the US government is providing economic aid as well as military training to Filipino troops fighting Islamic militants whose support has been fuelled by poverty and underdevelopment.