The Philippine Fleet’s (PF) unilateral training activity “Exercise Pagbubuklod” wrapped up its drill on Tuesday at Sangley Point, Cavite, giving the Navy’s primary sea force to improve and revisit its war fighting doctrine and capability.
“This exercise enabled us to develop, evaluate, validate and sustain the coherence of our war fighting doctrines and platforms interoperability,” PF commander Rear Adm. Nichols Driz declared.
“The exposure of our personnel to the different capabilities, old and new, as well as our limitations provided a holistic understanding of how we should fight as one,” he added.
Driz said it is the capacity and commitment to learn, enhance, adapt and develop that will propel the PF to sustain different capacities and acquire new capabilities.
Exercise Pagbubuklod 2022 was spearheaded by the Fleet Training and Doctrines Center (FTDC) with its superintendent Capt. Lorenzo Bolor Jr. as exercise director.
The training began on July 25, 2022, featuring a series of subject matter expert exchanges, tabletop exercises, shipboard lectures, in-port training activities at Naval Operating Base-Subic.
The exercise was highlighted by the “at-sea events” wherein participating personnel and assets such as the BRP Fort San Antonio Abad (AGS701), BRP Manuel Gomez (PC388), BRP Carlos Albert (PC375) and NH434 aircraft simulated various scenarios of maritime security operations in Bataan.
Sailor reservists also took an active role during the exercise aimed at acquainting them with the organization and the Navy’s latest capabilities of well deck operations, anti-submarine warfare and others.
The reservists also toured aboard BRP Jose Rizal (FF150), BRP Conrado Yap (PS39), BRP Davao del Sur (LD602) and BRP Tarlac (LD601).
Driz said the “hotwash” served as the penultimate chapter of the exercise whose purpose was to evaluate and assess the just-concluded training with the goal of developing sound operational concepts of the Navy’s interoperability in addressing security threats in the country’s vast maritime environment.