South Korea gives trucks to Philippine military

[mazdamazda]

South Korea gives trucks to Philippine military
THE PHILIPPINE STAR
04/11 4:21:35 PM

MANILA (AFP) - South Korea on Wednesday turned over 134 trucks and bulldozers to the poorly equipped Philippine military, highlighting close defence ties between the two countries.

The 127 cargo and dump trucks and seven bulldozers were provided to the Philippines as a grant with Manila paying "token" transport costs of about 72,000 dollars, said military chief General Hermogenes Esperon.

In a ceremony at the Philippine military headquarters in Manila, Esperon told South Korean ambassador Jong Ki Hong that "relations between the two nations defence establishments and armed forces have grown stronger."

The Philippines was one of the nations that provided troops to defend South Korea during the 1950-53 Korean war.

The Philippine military is still battling communist insurgents and Muslim extremists in the hinterlands.

thanks to our South Korean brothers... :clap:

[Bogeyman]

Meron ba silang surplus fighter jets? Nakakaawa na talaga ang PAF eh. :D

[niky]

Hingi kaya tayo sa Taiwan?

Good news indeed... our Army's truck fleet is starting to look kinda pathetic.

[orly_andico]

Meron ba silang surplus fighter jets? Nakakaawa na talaga ang PAF eh. :D

The last 2 or 3 F-5A fighters in the PAF were acquired from South Korea in the mid-1990's for the tumataginting sum of $1 each.

Unfortunately all of the F-5's have been decommissioned because maintaining them is too expensive.

I wonder what the Koreans are thinking... they donate TRUCKS. Parang yung number of trucks na yun isang construction company lang yun sa Korea.

We so poor!

[number001]

If one were to look at the act of the S.Korean's donation pessimistically, it looks as if we solved their problems by accepting junks which they have to spend money on if they were to scrap them.

I wonder if those trucks will pass the emissions testing at LTO.

[1D4LV]

Daewoo, Hyundai o Kia?
pero i agree with number001 position. mostly, military surplus equipments naman ang tinatanggap natin sa other countries eh. its because, for them, they are either obsolete or very expensive to maintain, and that by replacing them, it would be much cheaper.

[mbeige]

Why did it take 50 years for S. Korea to return the favor? It does not look well-appreciated, parang tinatambakan lang tayo ng used junk equipment like others here have pointed out.

The country is basically defenseless, since it cannot even maintain its own military and air space and it has to accept donations from others just to have a constant supply of usable vehicles!

[oldblue]

If one were to look at the act of the S.Korean's donation pessimistically, it looks as if we solved their problems by accepting junks which they have to spend money on if they were to scrap them.

I wonder if those trucks will pass the emissions testing at LTO.

trucks and bulldozers as junks? are you kidding?

bigay nila sa'kin yan papakitain ko yan. mahal magpa-rent ng bulldozer ah even so trucks. kahit $2 each bibilin ko hehehe

[orly_andico]

According to a friend whose dad was In The Navy (YMCA!) the US government was even responsible for paying the Navy's fuel bills. The rent on those US bases, pegged at ~$1.5 Billion a year back then, wasn't the only form of aid the US provided.

As for M2.. I have to disagree regarding the taxes. While it is true that the vast majority of people evade taxes, the fact is that most of the taxes that DO get paid (me included, being a salaried employee I've been paying correct taxes my entire professional life) are stolen anyway, is sickening.

I think what tax evaders say is, 70% of what I pay will get stolen anyway, so..

[Bogeyman]

We so poor!

Indeed. We are so poor, we can't even manufacture our own needles and safety pins; they have to be imported from China.

[handyman]

Indeed. We are so poor, we can't even manufacture our own needles and safety pins; they have to be imported from China.

Are we really that poor, Every day we come across high end vehicles (expedition, lc 100, pajeros lexus and even sequoia) on the road with red plates. or should i say, that there is something wrong with the way our
goverment provides service vehicle to goverment employees.

i think they should issue/purchase picanto's, norkis, getz etc only

handyman

[mazdamazda]

Are we really that poor, Every day we come across high end vehicles (expedition, lc 100, pajeros lexus and even sequoia) on the road with red plates. or should i say, that there is something wrong with the way our
goverment provides service vehicle to goverment employees.

i think they should issue/purchase picanto's, norkis, getz etc only

handyman

Well, you should check out first which government agency those vehicles belong to. Most high-end vehicles that you see are the property of PAGCOR as these are being used to also chauffer VIP casino patrons. The Supreme Court also has a high budget for the vehicles of their justices (if you want to have a clean judiciary - you have make sure that the justices are well compensated to begin with).

Directors of government agencies use 1.6L sedans or AUVs.

hirap kasi sa atin yung talagang pambili ng equipments and vehicles kinukurakot, kaya eto tayo kahit sino kayang kunin na ang pilipinas.

As I've been saying before, if all Filipinos were paying the right amount of tax we wouldn't have this problem. More than P200B a year is lost due to the underdeclaration of income tax, wrong remittance of VAT, tax leakage, etc. P200B is a lot of money and can effectively double the salary of all gov't employees and double the money used for infrastructure & defense.

[Dr.Kamiya]

Are we really that poor, Every day we come across high end vehicles (expedition, lc 100, pajeros lexus and even sequoia) on the road with red plates. or should i say, that there is something wrong with the way our
goverment provides service vehicle to goverment employees.

i think they should issue/purchase picanto's, norkis, getz etc only

handyman

Luxury cars are small fry compared to military hardware. Take the F16 for example. About $20,000,000 each. To acquire just one F16, and run it for one year, we can probably buy a Ferrari F430 for every single congressman.

We gotta face the facts, our country is way too poor to maintain a modern military.

[heightdeprived]

Are we really that poor, Every day we come across high end vehicles (expedition, lc 100, pajeros lexus and even sequoia) on the road with red plates. or should i say, that there is something wrong with the way our
goverment provides service vehicle to goverment employees.

i think they should issue/purchase picanto's, norkis, getz etc only

handyman

kanya kanya kasi tayo eh, yaman ko yaman ko yaman mo yaman mo, tipong gano'n, higher up in the government nagiging gahaman yung iba sa pera kaya yung dapat sanang panggasta sa mga pangangailangang mga sasakyan at iba pang kagamitan eh sa SUV at sportscars nila napupunta sila sa South Korea daw the people even donated their riches for the good of their country...