Amid the heightened tension at the South China Sea, which is now said to be patrolled by two (2) US Navy Battlegroups, it is heartening to know that one of the highest US Military commanders who may have her eyes on the Philippines is of Pilipino blood.
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| USN Admiral Babette Bolivar |
Her name is Rear Admiral Babette “Bette” Bolivar, Commander of the joint US Naval Base in Guam which is home of Submarine Squadron 15, Coast Guard Sector Guam, Naval special Warfare Unit One, Pacific Command, the Seventh Fleet and the U.S. Pacific fleet.
She has just recently delivered a speech on Gender and Development Seminar in Legaspi City.
We lifted this story from the archive of Philippine Information Agency:
LEGAZPI CITY, July 7 (PIA) – US Navy Rear Admiral Babette “Bette” Bolivar, a Filipina-American commander of the Joint Region Marianas, delivered the keynote speech at the Gender and Development (GAD) Seminar held at the conference room of the Bicol Regional Teaching and Training Hospital which is part of the activities in the province of Albay of the Pacific Partnership 2016 in terms of development efforts for women in the Philippines and other partner nations.
Bolivar is born in Hawaii and was raised in a traditional Filipino family by his parents Ted Sereno Bolivar from Nabua, Camarines Sur in Bicol and Virginia Dolor Bolivar from Pangasinan with her two younger brothers also serving in the US Navy.
