Keywords: CARAT Philippines 2013 130629-N-YU482-305.jpg en A sailor with the Philippine Coast Guard Medical Corps prepares to enter a combat zone during a Tactical Combat Casualty Care TCCC exercise After training the trainers for two days U S sailors from the Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command have moved into a support role as they handed over the class of medical and nursing students to Philippine trainers in support of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training CARAT Philippines 2013 on June 29 More than 600 Sailors and Marines are participating in CARAT Philippines 2013 U S Navy units participating in CARAT Philippines include the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald DDG 62 with embarked Destroyer Squadron DESRON 7 staff a U S Marine Corps landing force and the diving and salvage vessels USNS Safeguard T-ARS 50 and USNS Salvor T-ARS 52 with embarked Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit MDSU 1 CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U S Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Malaysia the Philippines Singapore Thailand and Timor Leste U S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Stephen Hickok/RELEASED 2013-06-29 Petty Officer 1st Class Stephen Hickok https //www dvidshub net/image/986235 130629-N-YU482-305 2013-08-01 09 35 SUBIC BAY PH PD-USGov-Military-Navy Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2013 Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1 USNS Safeguard T-ARS-50 USS Fitzgerald DDG-62 Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |