MANILA, Oct 20 Kyodo U and Philip...

MANILA, Oct 20 Kyodo

U and Philippine soldiers will detain a new round of interoperability exercises upon Nov. 1-15, a Philippine military spokesman said Monday.

About 900 U crowds from the 1st Marine Air Wing based in Okinawa, Japan, will join at least 800 soldiers from the Philippine Army and the Philippine Air Force's Special Operations Wing in the exercises, said Maj. Allan Ballesteros.

The exercises called ''Talon Vision-03,'' will be held at the Clark Airfield, northwest of Manila, in Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija Province, and at a marine training base in Ternate, Cavite Province.

The annual exercises, started three years ago, are among joint activities in a less degree than the Visiting Forces Agreement between the United States and the Philippines.

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