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AMERICAN military facilities in the Philippines were closed down after the Senate rejected in 1991 the extension of the 1947 PH-US Military Bases Agreement.

Before they were shut down, Clark Air Base in Pampanga province and Subic Bay Naval Base in Zambales province were among the major overseas facilities of the United States.

The other former US military bases in the country include Camp John Hay in Baguio City, Wallace Air Station in La Union province and the O’Donnell Transmitter Station in Tarlac province.

In May 2013, Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr., then Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, said that US, Japanese and Vietnamese naval vessels would be allowed to make port calls at a planned military facility at Oyster Bay in Palawan province.

A month later, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said that the former US naval base in Subic was among the bases being considered to be covered under a proposed access agreement, a plan that would give the United States, Japan and other allies access to military bases in the Philippines.

Also being considered, Gazmin said, was the Lumbia airport in Cagayan de Oro if the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines would allow its use by the defense establishment. Compiled by Ana Roa, Inquirer Research

Sources: Inquirer Archives