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"It's not purely an external defense exercise, as we said in our remarks this morning
we have humanitarian assistance exercises, there will be staff exercise."
"For me we are not sending any message to anyone. The venues of exercise are the traditional
venues where we conduct previous exercises."
"It's a great opportunity for the Marines of III MAF to come down to the Philippines,
to get unique training opportunities, there's live fire events, and using a body of knowledge
that the Philippine Armed Forces have, that they can impart to us, as you know, we've
been distracted in other parts of the world for the last ten years."
"Amphibious means to generate the forces from the sea, from ships. Much of what we are doing
is of a peaceful nature, humanitarian assistance and disaster response, in fact the beauty
of a Marine corps is that it has a flexibility for not being tied to a geographical piece
of terrain, that we can move capability by the sea as operational manoeuvre."