US Navy edges back to Subic Bay in Philippines – under new rules

Yahoo News ^ | November 12, 2015 | Ralph Jennings

[kearnyirish2]

I see; the wailing and gnashing of teeth was audible as Puerto Rico dealt with one less handout...

[PAR35]

They were limping by on handouts from the mainland taxpayers until that happened. It’s been a downward spiral ever since. They are nearing total collapse, and expect us (probably correctly) to bail them out again.

[PAR35]

Sorry, wrong thread. I’d been on an exchange on a thread about Roosevelt Roads and Puerto Rico. Some of the comments apply here, but the Philippines is in better shape than PR.

[Safetgiver]

I heard San Miguel was good beer.....I spent 18 mos. at Clarke and had at least 1000 San Magoos. Never had two that tasted alike.

[BerryDingle]

They even got Al $harpton down there protesting

I still laugh at his "heavy soup" starvation in jail.

[Parley Baer]

I have been known the haunt the streets of Olongapo during my time in the Philippines. Hehehehe

[minnesota_bound]

When this Philippine coastal town rid itself two decades ago of a giant US naval base, it wanted to shake off a colonial past and reject the ugly Americans

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I do not accept the beginning of this article. America has stopped WW3 many times by our presence around the world.

[Oatka]

Ungrateful people. They would still be under Imperial Japanese rule if it were not for the blood of our soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen.

I remember when the "Yankee Go Home!" B/S first started there. Our side asked, "Do you REALLY want the Imperial Japanese Navy cruising down through Surigao Strait again?" Saner minds prevailed - for a while - and we stayed there.

[kearnyirish2]

Yes, he didn’t lose an ounce since then. I believe it was “In Living Color” or a similar program showed him on a hunger strike chained to a garbage can or something similar - and when people were distracted he’d reach in and guzzle some food.

[Bull Snipe]

Mama Jolos. Feeding chickens to the alligator.

[Seruzawa]

LOL! If you polled my crew back then it would be more like a majority of 90%. It had to be the LEAST popular liberty port.

[GATOR NAVY]

10,000 prostitutes within 5 miles of the gate, with hundreds of now one's arriving each week on buses.

It's a wonder God didn't burn it to the ground. It was the most decadent town in the history of man.

I'm glad I went there at the time I did-young, single and when liberty still meant liberty. With the liberty policies of today's Navy there wouldn't be much fun in visiting Olongapo.