FILE - U.S. troopers prepare to board U.S. Army CH-47s at Paredes Air Station at Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte province as it carries U.S. and Philippine troops during a joint military exercise in northern Philippines on May 6, 2024. Hundreds of American and Filipino troops concluded Monday June 10, 2024 a new combat exercise in the northern Philippines which tested their endurance in more than a week of brutal heat and volatile weather and braced them to respond to any threat in tropical jungles and on scattered islands, two U.S. and Philippine generals said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)