 The lack of exercise has opened the day and we're expecting it to be done in the next two weeks. And again, with the delivery of these products. Thank you. Good morning, I'm a big general here in Austin, from 3rd grade International Service Force. And I'm just proud to be here sitting alongside my Philippine counterpart and look forward to answering your questions today. Thank you. One of the burning questions in this year's Malikatan exercises would be probably the ongoing tensions with China. Does this affect in any way the conduct of the exercises moving forward and of course in the years to come? Would this in any way affect the Malikatan exercises at this point? The Malikatan exercises affect in no way the effect of the tensions going on around us. Particularly, I want to say something. Because the Malikatan is the year and the year TPD of the U.S. and the armed forces of the Philippines as a part of the U.S. military support and security and future network in TPD. And the exercise is just slightly our interoperability and our cooperation in the TPD. So it doesn't in any way affect the tensions and it should be seen as separately between other regions. I would just reinforce what I was just saying is that we've been doing this for 38 years, every April. And it is a tremendous and important chance for us to train together as allies and partners. But it is in no way drive to any of the ongoing tensions. Sir, just a quick follow-up. Would there be a scenario also between the U.S. and the Philippine troops that may possibly prepare both sides for a possible attack or an invasion? Not naming anyone, but would that scenario be also practiced for prayers? Not really, but the FDX and the military exercises are geared towards strengthening the interoperability because we will be working with the headquarters to meet in the morning at different levels. So we need that to be cohesive so that we can achieve a degree of efficiency in the process of the exercise. So it might be or it may not, but I think the challenge around us, our interoperability, it is, but for us it's better to be prepared as our partners. One comment, I think it's important to understand that the Philippine armed forces, plus any Americans, are rapidly modernizing right now. So one of the opportunities that we have in this exercise is to learn about how we can be interoperable with many of our modernized capabilities. I think it's important to point that out. An example is the fact that we're, for the first time, going to work through a cyber defense scenario that's been mentioned. And also from the U.S. side, we have two new formations. The third, we're in the total arrangement, which is a new formation that we're going to exercise in the first multi-domain task force from the Army. And then we're going to experiment with it as well. So a lot of important experimentation and better understanding how our modernized forces will work together. Thank you, sir. I wish to ask you about riding a higher exercise, which is going to be interoperable on the 26th. The higher exercise is part of the exercise, the exercise of the Army. It talks more about past techniques and figures. Because we'll be using different ornaments, how it will be ordained in the Air Force from all sides, from all sides. So we need the interoperability of communication systems to be able to teach them the internetifiers. And secondly, the invitation of standard of guests for them. We have to send them the communication to the standard of officials of the affidavit of the President. We also send them the invitation of the President. This is usually a further communication of them. And of course, the other affidavit might be very sweet. The live fire is, in fact, one of the items, but there are many habits of this exercise. And we will work through the command and control of different weapons, as was just stated, and the interoperability of our armed forces. So it'll be a good opportunity to learn from that. But there's so many other things that are going on that may not seem as exciting, but they are. I'll give you an example. There's logistics, which is tremendously important to all of us. Maybe now it's exciting. There's a live fire exercise, but something we're going to get after this exercise. Good morning. I'm David Santos. Thank you for everything. This is what we're going to be discussing. We understand that each evaluation of the body that happens is not in the USA, but in the USA. But maybe you can just say what the minimum cost is with the process of this ID. I mean, this is quite a good exercise in the South. This is the biggest ever, and there are about 17,000 participating troops, 12,000 from the US Armed Forces. And we will ask you the process of just deciding on the sheer number of participants in the work that you're going to do. And to also certainly ask, what do you need to decide? There are 12,000 American troops, only 5,000 of the 50%? I would just tell you, two things. One, we value any opportunity to train with our allies and partners. So, given the opportunity, we are training across the joint force from the US perspective. This is a wonderful opportunity for us, which is why many of us are here to participate. What I don't have a good answer for is I don't know what the specific decisions were made to, plus another one from previous public attendance. So I apologize. The decisions were made since last year. It was a joint study conducted in the US at the building site of here in Hawaii. And the last study, I think, was in December, where obviously it was here now, where the place has got areas to be laid out, includes the tidal effects, building exercise, and of course, the CPX. And the Dubai, Nicaria, city-class clients. The HCA activities already started last month, and the partners were decided last December. And they include the other exercise details. And as we come closer, as we came closer, we decided, and the whole process of the activities is already in the Air Force. So it was also decided to be serious. So it's a community and ongoing process of planning, whatever planning and discussions to be held. I'm just a follow-up question. As you can see, there are a number of day-to-day projects, and I think that there are types of groups, left-wing groups, and cross-sector groups, that are concerned over the huge volume of participating groups and also concerned with their relationship, citing various instances. Unfortunately, in the past, how do we respond to this criticism from left-wing and cross-sector groups? I've created a site for the cross-sector groups, that we would like to sign. It's a meeting of their part, of our part as members of the art forces. As mentioned, we have to be working together, strengthening our cooperation as we go on, the interoperability on the technical, tactical, and procedural levels to be done. The inter-sector groups, they believe such, because it's a part of the movement process and so on. But, evidently, we, as the people of the nation, the communities should be united in a way that we support the art forces of the communities, as part of the protection of the environment. Thank you very much. I was just going to add, as I was stating, that we'll leave the political discussion to the politicians, but what I will say is, from the U.S. perspective, we're just grateful to be here and intend to be good stewards. We certainly understand that bad behavior can be a bad thing for our relationship. Now, with your population, we're sensitive to that, and we fully intend to be good stewards throughout this exercise. Thank you so much. Thank you. Sir, can you give us, we know that there is great penetration, multiple sources of penetration in the region. So, can you give us a density of how you feel about the urgency of doing this, by this accolation and in this massive, when the ship's sinking at your side? What is your sense of urgency that you must do this life, that that is in this size and in this intensity? We don't feel urgency based on any tensions. There are tensions, we all understand that. But what we do feel is a true value into the partnership with allies and partners throughout the region, and see that as a tremendously important part of the role that we, as Americans play in the peace and security and stability in this region. So, we're really happy to be here. The tensions, all of us are trying to ease the people on the political team in this state. But for us, the armed forces, it's more of making ourselves as an armed force be more efficient and effective. So, it's not any, it's not terrorist violence, no reason for any challenge that is definitely based. Definitely, our country faces the future. So, we should be prepared in any dead body, the future, whatever it may be. Definitely. Thank you. Sir, as a fact, this is the 30th activation of the body defense. Can you give us a sense of how working together in a large situation is always far from perfect in many years? Can you give us an idea of how, because of the emphasize, that the two forces have improved their response time to any possible crisis during Taiwan and the South China Sea and the operation of the interoperability? So, I'll give you two aspects that are very important. One is there's a technical aspect that our systems have to work together, which is something that we struggle with within the ONU at our own force in the United States. And it's also something that we have to work at and work hard at and exercise with our allies and partners, and we're going to do that in this exercise. So, working those systems out from a technical perspective is important. The other thing I would tell you that's probably more important is relationships. And I mentioned it in my comments about an hour ago, that you cannot search trust. So, the relationships that we have that we build through these exercises are what make us best posture to respond to conflict, crisis, humanitarian assistance to a disaster relief when need be at speed. I have been in Taiwan before. It's more of the technical part than the humanitarian part. For us, we've been working on relationships for and taking steps, taking steps into the the new differences in our world, our friends, and in our world, we became allies. That's how we develop our relationships in Taiwan. And on technical exchanges, on technical expertise, the SMEs, the experts talking together, our experts, the American experts talking together, their most chief operation on interoperability, on the opposite sides, developing other communities definitely and depending on the procedures as we go on. So, I think that's about it. Thank you. Thank you. Right here, at the end of yes, it's next year, it's going to be tomorrow. And tomorrow, I think it's going to be another day, just a bit. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you again. So, we learn from the personal ones. We learn from our counterparts. So, that's how to develop our cellular impacts in the New York region. So, it would mean that at the future, we would develop2020 expertise of people maybe something to be able to efficiently address the cellular vulnerabilities earlier that the fact that we're exercising the cyber defense is testimony to the changing character of warfare and the fact that all of our services have to modernize and adapt to meeting the threat that exists across the world. And in the distance of this, we all understand that cyber space and information are domain so we now have to work in as armed forces. And I also stated that we've got two new formations that are exercising here that are more focused on all domain, which is the Marine Littoral Resident and the multi-domain task force from the U.S. Army. So we have to understand how those have been within the construct of this exercise and it really is a special opportunity to learn about these new formations and new capabilities in the context of the changing character of warfare. Thank you. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Good morning, sir. From what we understand, the Marine Littoral Resident, one of the Marine Littoral Resident in the valley again, was supposed to be at Ilamos, Mardin. And then it was moved to Dumballi, I think it's a live fire. So what happened in Ilamos, Mardin? The night before our war was a disaster because the air here was a sensation with the air in Ilamos, Mardin. So we located inside the Ilamos location of this training, a particular war for the aroments that would be cast to be during the passage of the live fire. So it's more of a security procedure and preparation for the airmen. Thank you. So next class is Dumballi. Thank you. Thank you very much. Last two questions from Sekali Gide. Good morning. Let me clarify the context for meaning of the exercise. So my question is very simple. Does the exercise include island maintenance operation or island recapture operation or single activity? Thank you. Yes, because the part of the activities is the continuous operations. We also have the applied joint logistics over the sea operations that set me that these things over the sea, over any shorelines. We have the amphibious operations that we conducted in some way allowing the part of amphibious operations. So the answer is yes. We have the data as part of the probability development of the day that everybody is. Any time we can exercise with an expeditionary mindset whether it be amphibious operations or others, it drives a collaboration that is a really great tool for the exercise. Because as stated, you have different components, different services that have to work together. So there is great opportunity to do just that in Balcutan this year. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Can I have the video from the AFP? I'm not sure. Hi. What's your name? I'll ask on behalf of that. I'm Ron Lovers, the video from the AFP. The Chinese military is included in the military exercise, simulating an attack and a blockade of Taiwan. I just wanted to know how significant is that to the way you plan this military exercise and what role will the Philippines have in case they want to question what you're going to say. It's a reality. The Chinese military is included in the military exercise on the Taiwan attack and blockade. I just wanted to ask Mr. Ren, the exercise, does this training in case that happened and what will the Philippines do in case that happened? Well, it's not an advertisement. I'm paying a lot of money. The attention of the Philippines is here and here, an activity. And it's an activity in the U.S. and the Philippines coming years. The activity from the Chinese side, it's their activity. So, a little guidance is needed on that side and the need that is for the leadership of each other to manage those things in the process. But for us, the meaning is that in our forces, we try to develop more between the context of capacity development and interoperability with our partner forces. All right. How much more? Can you see? I'm from the U.S. I just wanted to ask how can this body-to-body exercise help in terms of protecting the Philippines and the U.S. and the U.C.? The body-to-body exercise, as we mentioned, is in the case of the U.S. and the U.S. and through the years, the AME and our partner allies develop things as we grow up to be incredible art forces. The art forces also contribute to the recognition of the U.S. and so on. So, we need to test around more competencies and focus them in the process of their exercise. So, what I mean is that the art forces, the Philippines in itself is still growing as a nation to include the art forces and we will try to learn from others, especially from the U.S. side. Technically, the technology change, the expertise exchange that are going in, those are the forces that we should be able to do the rest, how we think, and be able to develop the art forces as the potential forces of the future. I think that's the way for us. Thank you. I would just say that this training provides a better team, force, allies to respond to any crisis or contingency. And the last time I served in the Third Korean Expeditionary Force, I was proud to respond to a typhoon in partnership with the Philippine Armed Forces. And it's events like that have been very fast and that we were able to respond to in a very timely fashion. That's one example, certainly, of the benefit of this exercise. We were just very proud to be here. So, thank you sirs. Thank you to all of you guys. Thank you to all of the sponsors. Thank you very much. To all of the media. By the way, don't worry because that is our concern. We just want to tell you that if you are any concern that combines and commissions with you, we are here to monitor Alec. We are here to assist you and whoever you are and whoever you are to give you the information to be about the United States and very important. And I want to underpin your number. Just ask for a comment. Sir, thank you very much. Thank you sir. Thank you.