A Tribute to BGEN CARLOS M CLET AFP (December 3, 1957 – April 7, 2009) Everytime I would catch a glimpse of PGMA in the news, whether it may be on TV or newspaper, especially during live Presidential appearances, I always look for Caloy. I was never disappointed. Caloy was always there, behind the President […]

Everybody misses the point whenever the notion of a “Signal Regiment” is brought out. People immediately suspects that the Signal Corps only wants to claim the 4.4% share of the star rank position in the Army, as stipulated in the Army regulations on AFPOS ceiling. Yes, it is partly true but the main motivation should […]

On Adjusting to Change: LTGEN YANO (CGPA) to Conference Group Alfa on 05 Nov 2007, “Radio Messages must not be all in capitalized letters. It should conform to ordinary letter-document format because we are sending them by fax or email, no longer by Morse codes!” The Combat Support for an Intensified Internal Security Operations (ISO) […]

16 MAY 2007 AMENITIES: GENERAL DILODILO Sir, the Presiding Officer; distinguished members of Conference Group Alfa; ladies and gentlemen, good morning! It is a fine day for speeches. There are nine speeches all in all, to include one from the Presiding Officer. All I want to do today is to ask you a direct question […]

22 Jan 1958 – 03 April 2005 We lost Lito Cruz on the same day Pope John Paul II died. We are now starting to miss Lito, his reassuring voice, and the happy ending we wished for him—to be a Commanding General of one of the five engineering brigades in the Army. It is indeed […]

By: MGen Alphonsus “Tiger” Crucero, The Commander of Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) In the military service, training is part of soldier’s lives. All are required to undergo series of training in varying degrees. The training will make them into soldiers who can carry our respective roles effectively and efficiently so that they contribute greatly […]

In 2003, I was the Deputy G5 (Staff for Plans) of the Philippine Army. I wrote this essay as a speech of Gen Dionisio Santiago, the AFP Chief-of-Staff, in a stakeholders’ forum; and later, I was able to publish it in the 1st Quarter 2003 issue of the Cavalier Magazine. I was already aware at […]

by Amelia HC Ylagan “I love you, Over!” She heard him, loud and clear, above the whirring static of the radio patch from where he was — in a tent that was the detachment headquarters of his infantry battalion in Jolo. “Ten-four,” she hurriedly replied — meaning “message received”. Carefully controlled emotions over the open […]