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Shock and awe aboard the USS Ronald Reagan

Chiara Zambrano, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 19 11:08 AM

The scene on the USS Ronald Reagan is undeniably cinematic, harking back to old-time macho favorites like Top Gun, conjuring images of Maverick, Iceman, and Goose that I never even realized I still had. Read more »

China bars US warship visits to Hong Kong: Navy

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 14 07:52 AM

WASHINGTON - China has denied requests for two US Navy ships to visit Hong Kong, the Pacific Fleet said on Tuesday, after the two countries engaged in a war of words over the city's pro-democracy protests. Read more »

Ex-US Navy kulong matapos manapak ng babae sa Poblacion bar

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 11 05:07 PM

Arestado nitong Linggo ang isang dating US Navy matapos umanong sapakin ang isang babae sa loob ng bar sa Barangay Poblacion, Makati City. Read more »

US Navy combat ship makes first PH port visit in Davao city

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 29 11:30 PM

Montgomery will host local military and civic leaders during the port visit in Davao city, according to US officials.  Read more »

Hanjin shipyard offers ‘perfect’ opportunity for US Navy return to PH: ex-officer

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 09 06:10 AM

A retired US Navy official said Washington should collaborate with a private American firm to assist debt-laden Hanjin shipyard in Subic. Read more »

Russian destroyer almost collided with cruiser in PH Sea, says US Navy

Reuters
Posted at Jun 07 06:40 PM

The US Navy said a Russian destroyer almost collided with one of its guided missile cruisers in the Philippine Sea in an incident it denounced as "unsafe and unprofessional". Read more »

'Wow, what is that?' US Navy pilots report UFOs

Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, The New York Times
Posted at May 27 09:41 AM

No one in the Defense Department is saying that the objects were extraterrestrial, and experts emphasize that earthly explanations can generally be found for such incidents. Read more »

US urges Southeast Asia to respond to China’s island fortification

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 17 11:43 AM

MANILA — A senior United States Naval officer is encouraging Southeast Asian nations to determine its own response to China’s military expansion in the South China Sea. Read more »

PH, US, Japan, India group sail in S.China Sea show of force towards China: experts

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 10 01:49 PM

Experts on Friday hailed the recent naval drill of the Philippines, the United States, Japan, and India in the South China Sea that was seen as a flexing of muscles against China’s dominance in the contested waterway. Read more »

PH, US, Japan, India navies sail together in disputed South China Sea

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 09 06:33 PM

MANILA – Navies from the Philippines, the United States, India and Japan have sailed together for the first time for a maritime activity in the disputed South China Sea.  Read more »

Two US warships sail in disputed South China Sea

Idrees Ali, Reuters
Posted at May 06 01:07 PM

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military said two of its warships sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Monday, a move that could anger Beijing at a time of tense relations between the world's two biggest economies. Read more »

Remembering the Bataan Death March

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 04 07:05 PM

Filipino soldiers, volunteers, and some former US Navy SEALs march along the route of the 'Bataan Death March' now part of MacArthur Highway going to Capas National Shrine in Tarlac on Sunday. Read more »

Two US Navy ships sail through Taiwan Strait

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 26 07:41 AM

WASHINGTON - The US Navy has sailed two ships through the Taiwan Strait, officials said Monday, in what the military described as a "routine transit" that is nonetheless sure to upset China.  Read more »

US warships pass through Taiwan Strait amid China tensions

Reuters
Posted at Jan 26 03:08 AM

TAIPEI - The United States sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday in the first such operation this year, the Taiwan government said, as it increases the frequency of transits through the strategic waterway to the concern of China. Read more »

U.S. Navy chief does not rule out sending aircraft carrier through Taiwan Strait

Tim Kelly, Reuters
Posted at Jan 18 01:40 PM

TOKYO - The U.S. Navy has not ruled out sending an aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait, despite military technology advances by China that pose a greater threat to U.S. warships than ever before, the chief of U.S. naval operations said on Friday. Read more »

China raps U.S. warship sailing in disputed sea

Kyodo News
Updated as of Jan 08 01:35 AM

China has protested the latest sailing of a U.S. warship near a group of disputed islands in the South China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Read more »

US Navy vessel, submarine dumaong sa Puerto Princesa

Arlie Cabrastante, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 15 05:09 PM

Dumaong ang isang United States Navy vessel at submarine sa pantalan dito noong Disyembre 5 at 7, ayon sa Philippine Coast Guard-Palawan. Read more »

Keen sword

Kaila V. Peters, U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters
Posted at Nov 15 04:41 PM

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga sail in formation with 16 other ships from the U.S. Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as aircraft from the U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force fly overhead in formation during Keen Sword in the Philippine Sea November 8, 2018. Read more »

US warships sail through Taiwan Strait

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 23 07:56 AM

WASHINGTON - Two US warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a military spokesman said, in a move bound to aggravate China amid heightened tensions with Beijing.  Read more »

5 men and the sea: huge marlin sinks Filipino fishing boat

Cecil Morella, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 12 12:09 AM

It reads like a modern day take on 'The Old Man and the Sea' -- five Filipino fishermen cast adrift for days on a makeshift raft after a huge marlin sinks their boat. Read more »