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Marine Aviation support activity or

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MASA for short is an annual exercise

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held in the Philippines that is focused

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on mutual defense , strengthening

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relationships and rehearsing emerging

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aviation concepts .

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United States and the Philippines have

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been treating allies since 1951 . It's

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more than a partnership . It's a , it's

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a friendship and friendships come with

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common understanding . We're trying to

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maintain peace and stability in the

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region and it is founded in , in our

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focus towards freedom . What we are

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doing in this exercise . It is for the

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protection of the Philippines and this

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exercise stands as a testament during

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partnership between the two nations

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where when you look at our operations

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center , you see a Philippine Marine ,

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a US Marine all the way around sharing

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information , talking about it . And

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for us being able to have a common goal

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and a common mission . I think this was

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an exceptional example of what Wright

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looks like throughout all the joint

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training that is taking place . Here ,

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we are presented with a constantly

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reoccurring outcome , marines us and

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Philippine working together shoulder to

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shoulder to train with seamless

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integration of forces for the future

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side by side with 43 brigade . We are

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training to fight and defeat a living

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thinking enemy and our electoral live

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fire exercise that we conducted . We

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pushed target engagement authority to

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our Philippine partners that were able

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to give approval of fires that created

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a precision strike while simultaneously

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conducting artillery fires in a

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separate target engagement area . You

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know , this LX demonstrated effective

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bilateral coordinations along with

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advancing those force design concepts

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that we are striving for . As you look

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towards the future , we're constantly

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refining them . We're getting better ,

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we're improving , we're learning while

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we're out here , but make no mistake .

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We are ready now .