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 […]
In 2010, I successfully completed the “Strategic Communications Course” held in Canberra, Australia. The Australian Government, in their invitation, had a letter “s” at the end of the word “Communications”. The word with an “s” refers to technology systems (a J6 term); and the one without an “s” is about creation of meaning, the development […]
From Charlie Company 