Subic Bay

[ soo-bik ]

noun

1. a bay in the South China Sea, near the Bataan Peninsula in W Luzon, in the Philippines: former U.S. naval base.

Example Sentences

Unlike the two massive military bases that American forces used to occupy, including a Navy base at Subic Bay that was about the size of Singapore and had a vibrant red-light district, the U.S. military is building a new presence in a much smaller area within Philippine camps.

From Seattle Times

They went to Subic Bay, the Philippines, and then Guam, before being transferred to a camp at Fort Chaffee, a military installation in western Arkansas where they stayed for about a month waiting for a sponsor who could take them out to live in the U.S.

From Seattle Times

Armed Forces; the Navy is a branch that has attracted many sailors from the Philippines because of the Subic Bay Naval Base, which was in operation until 1992 and served as a recruiting station of sorts.

From Encyclopedia.com

In a heavily guarded gymnasium in Subic Bay in the Philippines, my grandfather, Peter Lomenzo, an Army major and battalion commander in the 27th Infantry Regiment, listened with his peers to senior officers discussing the coming invasion of Japan.

From Seattle Times

Throughout the Cold War, the United States had two of its largest overseas military installations in the Philippines, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base, which both closed in the 1990s.

From New York Times