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U.S.-Philippine Marine Interoperability Exercise '03

MIX 03.  Senate Defense Committee Chairman Ramon Magsaysay Jr. (top photo, left) and Vice Chairman Robert Barbers (lower photo, left), accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone (top photo, center), led a group of senators and congressmen in a visit to the Philippine Marine base in Ternate, Cavite, February 20 for a first-hand view of U.S.-Philippine Marine Interoperability Exercise '03 (MIX 03).  Vice Admiral Victorino Hingco (top photo, right), Flag-Officer-in-Command, Philippine Navy, and Brigadier General  Buenaventura (lower photo, right) briefed the guests on the site.  Some 600 U.S. Marines and 300 Philippine Marines participated in a three-week training in infantry and reconnaissance operations including advanced marksmanship, intelligence planning, jungle operations, aviation assault support and parachute jumping.

U.S. Ambassador Ricciardone (top photo, right) and Philippine Senate Defense Committee Chairman Magsaysay (lower photo, left) meet some of approximately 600 U.S. Marines who participated in the three-week U.S.-Philippines Marines Interoperability Exercise '03 (MIX '03) at the Philippine Marine base in Ternate, Cavite Province.   Other Philippine legislators who joined Sen. Magsaysay in the February 20 visit to the base were Philippine House National Defense Committee Chairman Prospero Pichay, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Jose Lozada and Vice Chairman Magtanggol Gunigundo.
 

(Left photo:)  Senator Magsaysay views mortars and is briefed by Philippine Marine Col. Juancho Sabban on their use in the training.  (Right photo:)  Philippine Marine Brigadier General (Ret) Cabanlig, Special Assistant to Senator Rodolfo Biazon, views guns used in the advanced marksmanship training of Philippine troops.
 

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