PHNOM PENH, 6 February 2013 (The Cambodia Herald) - The US Marine Corps shift to the
Pacific will ramp up this year with more personnel and aircraft rotating
to Japan, Vietnam and Cambodia, the Marine Corps Times reported.
The report said two infantry battalions were rotating for six months through Okinawa in Japan at the end of January with a third scheduled to start this summer.
"The Corps also intends to send a contingent of electronic warfare aircraft to its air station in mainland Japan, and a group of explosives experts will undertake a humanitarian mission in Vietnam," the report said. "Future engagement with Cambodia is on the horizon, too."
Marines from Camp Pendleton in California will head to Vietnam in July to teach locals how to handle and dispose of unexploded munitions.
"We are not training in Vietnam," Marine Corps Commandant General Jim Amos was quoted as saying. "But I would hope that someday down the road, with relationships we build over the next year or two, that we’ll be able to train in Vietnam, perhaps with air forces, and operate along with them and build those relationships."
The report said two infantry battalions were rotating for six months through Okinawa in Japan at the end of January with a third scheduled to start this summer.
"The Corps also intends to send a contingent of electronic warfare aircraft to its air station in mainland Japan, and a group of explosives experts will undertake a humanitarian mission in Vietnam," the report said. "Future engagement with Cambodia is on the horizon, too."
Marines from Camp Pendleton in California will head to Vietnam in July to teach locals how to handle and dispose of unexploded munitions.
"We are not training in Vietnam," Marine Corps Commandant General Jim Amos was quoted as saying. "But I would hope that someday down the road, with relationships we build over the next year or two, that we’ll be able to train in Vietnam, perhaps with air forces, and operate along with them and build those relationships."
Admiral Jon Greenert of the United States Navy said the US was seeking "new opportunities in Cambodia" as well.
2 comments:
Wow, the U.S. is really nosy
hopefully cambodia will allow china to build their naval base off the coast of cambodia.
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