Philippines Navy – Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas
Philippines Navy – Ship of the Republic of the Philippines
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ALAN NAFZGER
Pecan Street Press
Lubbock ● Austin ● Fort Worth
Philippines Navy is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Philippines Navy – Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas
Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas – Philippines Navy
Written by Alan Nafzger
Copyright 2020
FADE IN
Philippines Navy Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas
BEGIN TITLES
EXT. SIDEWALK – MANILA – DAY
Chaos. People are running left and right. Distant civil defense sirens. Filipinos grab their smartphones for the news. Closer
church bells toll incessantly. Nearby and in the distance. Ever louder. Alarm. There is an eccentric street preacher who is reading from the King James Bible.
street preacher
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
(beat)
And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.
Philippines Navy Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas
EXT/INT. MINI-VAN – ST. THERESE PRIVATE SCHOOL – DAY
A mini-van drives towards the school, carrying a worried ISAGANI MORENO (34), his housemaid PRINCESS (50) and his younger children DEBORAH (6), SARAH (4), REBECCA (1). Isagani is in a business suit, he’s sober, practical and has calm intelligent eyes. Someone who never imposes himself, but has a natural sway over others. A banker.
Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas – Philippines Navy
EXT. SIDEWALK – MANILA – DAY
street preacher
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
EXT. ST. THERESE PRIVATE SCHOOL – DAY
The mini-van stops and the door flies open.
Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas
EXT. SIDEWALK – MANILA – DAY
street preacher
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
EXT. ST. THERESE PRIVATE SCHOOL – DAY
The NUNS guard the school entrance. They look more than concerned. They survey (especially) the sky and parking lot before releasing three girls. MARY (13), EVE (10), and HANNAH (8). They run to the van.
EXT. SIDEWALK – MANILA – DAY
street preacher
How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
EXT/INT. MINI-VAN – ST. THERESE PRIVATE SCHOOL – DAY
As his daughters enter the van he calls their name and despite the calamity they smile. Their father is assuring.
Isagani
Hannah, Eve, Mary.
EXT/INT. STREETS – MINI-VAN – DAY
Chaos. They drive through the streets of Manila. Isagani tries to calm his family.
Isagani
So how was school today!
MARY
Dad, there’s a war!
EVE
Mom!
Isagani
Your mom can take care of herself.
They are almost involved in a car wreck. The citizens are panicking.
EXT. STREETS – MANILA – DAY
street preacher
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
EXT/INT. MINI-VAN – STREETS – DAY
The family ride past a church. Many PEOPLE are going inside.
EXT. SIDEWALK – MANILA – DAY
street preacher
They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
EXT. Our Lady of Remedies Parish – DAY
The family arrives at a different church.
ISAGANI
(to children)
Kids, I will come and fetch you shortly. All right?
MARY
Dad.
ISAGANI
I’m going to go find out about mom.
Isagani parks the van at the church and the girls look at him in dismay. He’s not coming with them?
A cruise missile flies low overhead.
Undaunted and following instructions, Princess gets out of the van with Deborah, Sarah and Rebecca. The young ones are her responsibility.
The Philippines Navy (PN) (Filipino: Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas) is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It has an estimated strength of 24,500 active service personnel, including the 8,300-strong Philippine Marine Corps.[2] It operates 80 combat ships, 13 auxiliary ships, 25 aircraft and 8 unmanned aerial vehicles. It shares the responsibility of patrolling the maritime borders with the Philippine Coast Guard, a formerly attached unit which became a separate maritime law enforcement agency in 1998.
Naval Support Units
A Philippine Navy SEAL climbs a jacob’s ladder aboard the logistics support vessel during a maritime interdiction operation exercise.
A Philippine Navy SEAL Team participates in a battlefield exercise during a capability demonstration at Naval Base Cavite.
The Naval Support Units are responsible for the overall support of the navy, which includes logistics, personnel, financial, management, civil-military operations, and health care services, which are divided into nine groups and as follows:[28]
- Bonifacio Naval Station
- Civil Military Operations Group-Philippine Navy
- Naval Information and Communication Technology Center
- Fleet-Marine Warfare Center
- Headquarters Philippine Navy & Headquarters Support Group
- Naval Intelligence and Security Force
- Philippine Navy Finance Center
- Naval Logistics Center
- Navy Personnel Management Center
- Equipment
- Main article: List of equipment of the Philippine Navy
Further information: AFP Modernization Act
The BRP Antonio Luna (FF-151) Frigate of the Philippine Navy (PN), Photo taken at the Manila South Harbor
Ships
BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PS-15) and BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS-16) berthed together at Subic Bay Port
The names of commissioned ships of the Philippine Navy are prefixed with the letters “BRP”, designating “Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas” (Ship of the Republic of the Philippines). The names of ships are often selected to honor important people and places. The Philippine Navy is currently operating 80 combat ships and 13 auxiliary ships as follows:
- Landing Platform Docks: 2
- Frigates: 2
- Corvettes: 1 (+3[32][33][a])
- Offshore patrol vessels: 6 (+6[34])
- Littoral patrol vessels: 3 (+5[35])
- Coastal patrol crafts: 24
- Fast attack crafts: 18 (+9[36])
- Landing ship, tank / Logistics support vessels: 4
- Landing craft utility: 20
- Auxiliary ships: 13
Aircraft
Philippine Navy AW109 during flight operations aboard the USS Green Bay.
The Naval Air Wing has 25 naval air assets and 8 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It prepares and provides these forces for naval operations with assets mainly for maritime reconnaissance and support missions. Its headquarters is located at Danilo Atienza Air Base, Cavite City. It has four units which operate several variants of aircraft:
- 32nd Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadron (Beechcraft King Air C-90),
Naval Aviation Squadron MF-30 (BN-2A Islander), - Naval Aviation Squadron MH-40 (Leonardo AW159 Wildcat, AgustaWestland AW109E Power, and MBB Bo 105C),
- 71st Maritime Unmanned Aerial Reconnaissance Squadron (Boeing Insitu ScanEagle), and
- Naval Air School Center NATS-50 (Cessna Skyhawk 172M and Robinson R22 Beta II).