Last U.S. Military Dependents Leave Philippine Base
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MANILA — The last American military dependents left the Subic Bay Naval Base on Wednesday, marking a major step in the phaseout of nearly a century of U.S. military presence in this former colony.
The Navy said 232 wives and children of sailors took a chartered flight to Guam. With their departure, only about 1,400 U.S. sailors remain at what had been the largest U.S. naval base in Asia.
Last September, the Philippine Senate rejected a new, 10-year lease for the base, which the Americans have held since seizing the islands from Spain in 1898. The government then told the Navy to leave by the end of this year.
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