[wretchard]

The last thing the Philippine Navy needs is an 8,000 ton destroyer. There is no money to operate it. I knew a Filipino Annapolis grad who returned home, then spent the rest of his career hiding from his old American classmates. "They might ask me to show them my ship." The ship was a WW 2 era Cannon-class DE. It never left the pier. It was in such pitiful condition he was always afraid they would try to take it out to sea. One day, the ship sank at pierside in a storm. The crew were eternally grateful. "Probably saved all our lives."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Filipino Navy never grew because we were in the PI. Then they stoped growing when we left.