In the last Manila Times report, Sen. Maria Josefa Imelda 'Imee' Romualdez Marcos, the President's elder sister and chairperson of the Senate foreign relations committee, was quoted as asking the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to explain the reported storage of 39 million gallons of fuel for the US Navy in Subic, Zambales.

Subic is the former home port of the US Seventh Fleet, which was returned to the Philippines upon the termination of the 1947 Philippine-US Military Bases Agreement (MBA) in 1991.