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  2. U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay - Wikipedia

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    The transport ship Merritt set sail from Subic Bay in 72 hours loaded with Red Cross relief supplies and 200 Filipino nurses. In the 1930s a tree-planting program had begun, transforming the naval station into a virtual tropical garden, with streets lined with coconut palms, hibiscus, and gardenias.

  3. Clark Air Base - Wikipedia

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    Clark Air Base is a Philippine Air Force base in Luzon, located 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Angeles City, and about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Metro Manila.Clark Air Base was previously a United States military facility, operated by the U.S. Air Force under the aegis of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) and their predecessor organizations from 1903 to 1991.

  4. United States bases in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    While the end of the US Bases Treaty marked an end to permanent bases, and supposedly the end of permanent US military presence in the Philippines, the Philippines and the United States later signed a number of agreements for the purpose of facilitating bilateral military cooperation between the two countries.

  5. Commissary - Wikipedia

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    The department was overseen by a Commissary-in-Chief from 1809 to 1816, and by a Commissary General in Chief from 1858 to 1869. Between 1793 and 1859 Assistant Commissary, Commissary and (from 1810) Chief Commissary were (civilian) ranks in the Field Train Department of the Board of Ordnance (the field force element of the Ordnance storekeeping ...

  6. List of Philippine government and military acronyms - Wikipedia

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    AAIIBP – Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines; ACPC – Agricultural Credit Policy Council [1] AFAB - Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan; AFP – Armed Forces of the Philippines; AFPCES – Armed Forces of the Philippines Commissary and Exchange Service; AFPCGSC – Armed Forces of the Philippines Command and General ...

  7. Defense Commissary Agency - Wikipedia

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    DeCA Headquarters in Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia. The commissary benefit is not a recent innovation. Sales of goods from commissary department storehouses to military personnel began in 1825, when U.S. Army officers at specified posts could make purchases at cost for their personal use; by 1841, officers could also purchase items for members of their immediate families.

  8. Manila Central Post Office - Wikipedia

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    The post office building (center) under attack by U.S. troops, 26 February 1945. The post office was severely damaged in World War II during the Battle of Manila, after it suffered heavy artillery bombardment and saw fierce room-to-room fighting between the Americans and Japanese, who converted the edifice into a fortress by heavily barricading the rooms with sandbags and barbed wires.

  9. Commissary (store) - Wikipedia

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    A commissary is a store for provisions which can include prepared foods for eating either on-premises or off-premises. It is usually run within an organization such as a mining operation, a steel mill, a corporate center, or a government or military unit, and is usually primarily for the use of employees.