Philippines-Fil-Am soldiers, Landslides, Mopping up

[Warlord]

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BOHOL, PHILIPPINES: In this photo reproduction shows US army Sergeant Myla Maravillosa (L) with unidentified Iraqi child have their souvenir picture two days before she was killed in Iraq 2005.Maravillosa, died in a violent ambush by Iraqi insurgents on Christmas Eve last year. Marivallosa, who emigrated to the Hawaii in the 1990s as a shy 16 year old, will be buried a hero with full US military honors Thursday in her hometown at Inabanga,Bohol,central Philipines. AFP PHOTO Joel NITO (Photo credit should read JOEL NITO/AFP/***** Images)

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BOHOL, PHILIPPINES: US. Army Brigadier General Gregory Schumacher (L) hands over a U.S. flag to Estelita Maravillosa ,mother of slain Philippine-born US Army Sergeant Myla Maravillosa who died in a violent ambush by Iraqi insurgents on Christmas Eve last year -in a burial at Inabanga, Bohol,central Philippines 19 January 2006.Maravillosa is the first Filipino-American woman soldier who killed in iraq and was given a full US military honor. AFP PHOTO Joel NITO (Photo credit should read JOEL NITO/AFP/***** Images)

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BOHOL, PHILIPPINES: US army honor guards carry the casket of the remains of Philippine-born US Army Sergeant Myla Maravillosa who died in a violent ambush by Iraqi insurgents on Christmas Eve last year inside the cemetery at Inabanga, Bohol,central Philippines 19 January 2006.Maravillosa is the first Filipino-American woman soldier who killed in iraq and was given a full US military honor. AFP PHOTO Joel NITO (Photo credit should read JOEL NITO/AFP/***** Images)

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OBANDO, PHILIPPINES: Honor guards from the US Army carry the flag draped casket of Army Chief Warrant Officer Ruel Garcia during his funeral at a cemetery in Obando town, north of Manila, 07 February 2006. Garcia, 34, a pilot of the US Army 4th Aviation Regiment, Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division was killed when his AH-64 Apache attack helicopter crashed while on mission north of Taji. It was his second combat tour in Iraq. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/***** Images)

One of the first American soldiers captured in Iraq with that Jessica chick, the one with the receding hairline who spoke on TV like he was pissed off, his mother is Filipino.

It's admirable that the US military spends so much to give it's soldiers an honorable burial, even going to the lengths of sending the body home..etc... But then again. I can't help but remember the two million Filipinos who died in the American hands in the 1900's to 20's

Landslide:

Americans helping out.
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Looking for survivors and digging for bodies.
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Commie (New Peoples Army) attack:

Commie Dead: 10
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Barrio where it happened
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I wonder what it's like to piss this guy off.
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Some pissed of colonel who lost his ride
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YEs! V100's, we can't afford anything else. Some kind of agreement does not allow us to buy alternate hardware except for American. So we cant' afford any. Result, we get scraps and donated hardware even from Thailand.
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404471 06: A U.S. Soldier swings a bolo blade during military exercises April 25, 2002 in Ternate Cavite, the Philippines. Balikatan 2002, a joint two-week U.S.-Philippine military exercise, is coinciding with separate exercises in the south of the country. (Photo by Gabriel Mistral/***** Images)

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Jolo Sulu, PHILIPPINES: Joint Philippine army and US soldiers stand guard behind a mosque at the local wharf in Jolo Sulu, 10 February 2006. US equipments started to arrive on the troubled southern Philippine island of Jolo for the start of the Balikatan humanitarian program amids strong opposition. AFP PHOTO / THERENCE KOH (Photo credit should read THERENCE KOH/AFP/***** Images)

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ooo Kali

[Manokski]

Maybe nitpicking here but the armored vehicles in the photos above are the British designed Simba (but locally assembled in Subic) and the V150 (not V100).

Both were acquired new from the UK and the US. The English Simba was bought (150 units) in a purely commercial government to government transaction while the V150s (over 100) were acquired new from straight from the manufacturer as compensation from the US for the use of Subic and Clark before the US left.

Not exactly hand me downs.

[RGRBOX]

Good pics ... looking at the MARPAT in those pics, just reinforces my thoughts that the US Army really fvcked up with it's new chose of Camo... the Marpat kicks some azzez...