'Bigger' Balikatan to happen in April, says PH military official

By Francisco Tuyay

Jan 30, 2024 4:11 pm

MANILA, Philippines: The Philippine and US military forces are scheduled to hold military exercises in April, which will be larger than last year's war games, an official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Tuesday.

'It's going to happen in April and it's going to be bigger than [the] last time and involves more key (locations),' said Col. Francel Margareth Padilla, AFP spokesman, in a briefing in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Tuesday.

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