3D LAAD, Philippine Marines Conduct Simulated Live Fire with Stinger Missiles

19 April 2023

USMC and Philippine Marine fires a simulated FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missile air defense exercise as part as Balikatan 23 (all photos : DVIDS)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Bailey Parr, right, a low altitude air defense gunner with 3d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and a native of Byron Center, Michigan, explains how to use a FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missile to a Philipine Marine during Balikatan 23 at Naval Station Leovigildo Gantioqui, Philippines, April 17, 2023.

U.S. Marines, with 3d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and Philippine Marines participate in a simulated FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missile air defense exercise as part as Balikatan 23 at Naval Station Leovigildo Gantioqui, Philippines, April 17, 2023.

Balikatan 23 is the 38th iteration of the annual bilateral exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. military. 

The exercise includes three weeks of training focused on amphibious operations, command and control, humanitarian assistance, urban operations and counterterrorism skills throughout northern and western Luzon. Coastal defense training figures prominently in the Balikatan 23 training schedule.

(DVIDS)