U.S. Army Stages Equipment at American-owned Subic Bay Facility for Balikatan, Alliance Contingencies

The U.S. Army is using a facility in Subic Bay to stage equipment for exercises and alliance contingencies, according to a recent think tank report and imagery released by the Pentagon. Army trucks and helicopters rolled off a Military Sealift Command-contracted vessel at Subic Bay last month during Washington’s annual mass disembarkation in the Philippines for a series of consecutive military drills. The equipment was staged at Agila Subic – a 300-hectare complex across the bay owned by the American investment firm Cerberus Capital Management – rather than Subic’s civilian port like last year’s logistics operations. Originally constructed by a