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                    [Summary] => United States military assistance to the Philippines is expected to go on full-blast early next year as panels of both countries are expected to release soon their recommendations and assessment of the military requirements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado said yesterday.


Mercado said the Joint Defense Assessment group will have its final meeting this month in the US and is expected to present its final report by mid-December.
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Government troops in Mindanao are apparently having a hard time repelling Muslim rebels due to the lack of war planes to bomb and strafe enemy strongholds, a source at Camp Aguinaldo said yesterday.

To compound the soldiers' miseries, not a single military transport plane to carry ammunition and other supplies was available yesterday, the source added.

The Philippine Air Force admitted that no C-130 cargo plane could take off because of an "unscheduled maintenance."

The Air Force's fighter aircraft, the MG-520, are also under a "maintenance standdown." Simply put, these [DatePublished] => 2000-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

DEFENSE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
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                    [Summary] => United States military assistance to the Philippines is expected to go on full-blast early next year as panels of both countries are expected to release soon their recommendations and assessment of the military requirements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado said yesterday.


Mercado said the Joint Defense Assessment group will have its final meeting this month in the US and is expected to present its final report by mid-December.
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Government troops in Mindanao are apparently having a hard time repelling Muslim rebels due to the lack of war planes to bomb and strafe enemy strongholds, a source at Camp Aguinaldo said yesterday.

To compound the soldiers' miseries, not a single military transport plane to carry ammunition and other supplies was available yesterday, the source added.

The Philippine Air Force admitted that no C-130 cargo plane could take off because of an "unscheduled maintenance."

The Air Force's fighter aircraft, the MG-520, are also under a "maintenance standdown." Simply put, these [DatePublished] => 2000-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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