Yeah, it's interesting how the whole thing ended, if you want to follow all the twists & turns ...
The F-8's were originally based at the F-5 bases of Villamor (Manila) and Basa up in Papangas Province, which is also where CLARK AFB has resided for the past 90 years or so. The Philippines were still kinda "flush" with the Vietnam afterglow of USA dollars and their Air Force was the pride of the PI military. Basa was referred to as "Fightertown Phillippines" .... in partial acknowledgment of that, I can say they were pretty good, too ... we worked "against" their F-5's on occasion, and they handled themselves well in general. What they might have lacked in equipment and/or skills, the tried to make up for in spirit.
I think they always coveted CLARK -- hell, I know it --- and the F-8's were moved there ASAP after the MBA agreement was revised in the late '70's .... and then in 1986 the Air Force was at the military center of the Cory Aquino "People Power" revolt which put them on the "official" military hierarchy shit-list, and semi-permanently at that ..... Plus, the US dollars were now drying up, 15+ years post-Vietnam ... then came Pinatubo which effectively nuked much of the western half of Luzon, thus putting the nail in the coffin of the Filipino CLARK Crusaders.
Oversimplified, to be sure .... but that's the long and short of it.