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| jammerjamesky | Sep 27 2005, 11:31 PM Post #21 |
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Its not really sold but converted to export zones. MEPZA I and MEPZA II. but the navy has a new naval base also in mactan . I dont think that mactan is sinking. I can personally say that mactan is over crowded. It has gone far from former MACTAN AIR BASE. Besides, if the PAF will venture to create an PAF academy is not hard for them. like VILLAMORE AIRBASE have a nearest aeronotical school MACTAN also have also. PHILSCA if not mistaken. Same school in villamor airbase. They can attached to that school. |
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| cyklonmetal | Sep 30 2005, 01:12 PM Post #22 |
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Firstly I said shrinking, not sinking. second, im pretty sure it was sold off, or at least control of these areas was handed over to the export zone authority. regardless, it means you now have less areas to build on. in fact, the only air force structure left standing inside the export zone authority is the base hospital. Before transferring or building the AFA inside mactan, i think it would be only fair to build housing units for the officers and personnel. some of them have been living in the BACHELOR OFFICERS QUARTERS with their families for the last three or four years. This means living in a space around 15 feet wide by 20-25 feet deep (approximately), sharing a partially functional bathroom with the next door neighbor. It is different in Fernando where the whole airbase revolves around the training of either aviation cadets/officer candidates or candidate soldiers. the infrastructure is already there. ie, no buildings to build, no scandals about overpriced buildings, no officers/soldiers griping about new buildings for trainees while their dependents are housed in leaking decrepit structures etc. As for educating them at civilian schools like PHILSCA, they may be a less costly option. but i have reservations about mixing cadets/officer candidates with civilians. there is a reason for isolating military trainees, wether they be for the officer corps or the ranks. |
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| mikey177 | Oct 1 2005, 09:46 PM Post #23 |
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With regard to converting the PMMA to the Philippine Naval Academy, I think the PMMA alumni themselves are against this proposal, as gleaned from this online petition they have against it. |
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| deadeye | Apr 3 2009, 07:49 PM Post #24 |
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Exactly, but remember because of RHIP, young officers were prone to shut-off. |
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| Spidey | Oct 26 2010, 08:10 AM Post #25 |
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Separate service academies is now closer to being realized.. Solon moves to abolish the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) 25 OCTOBER 2010 A lawmaker today moved to abolish the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) to pave the way for the establishment of three military schools for the army, navy and air force. In filing Hose Bill 1090, Rep. Philip Pichay (1st District, Surigao del Sur) said the measure intends to lessen or eradicate “the baneful effects of the mistah system in the military and police organizations.” “It is ironic that military adventurists came from the ranks of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), the top institution tasked to mold officers who should be at the forefront of defense against constitutional adversaries,” Pichay said. “Not a few uniformed men and women, under the guise of serving the people’s interest, launched destabilizing moves subverting the very democracy they purport to uphold,” Pichay added. According to Pichay, the police organization has its own Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA). It was created on August 26,1977 by Presidential Decree 1184 otherwise known as the “INP Personnel Professionalization Law of 1977.” Pichay said the Philippine Army Military Academy (PAMA), the Philippine Air force Military Academy (PAFMA) and the Philippine Naval Military Academy (PNMA) shall be created as the military training schools for officers of the major service commands of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Under the bill, the tri-service academies shall provide a two-year officer course that shall embody the academic and training needs of the major services command. Applicants to the tri-service academies shall have finished a basic two-year college course equivalent to 72 units. The applicant must be 19 years old but not more than 21 years old at the time his entry at the academy. “The measure intends to establish separate academies that would shape the men and women who would eventually lead the major services of the AFP without sacrificing the quality of future officers,” Pichay said. |
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| Zero wing | Oct 31 2010, 05:16 AM Post #26 |
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Its a great idea three military academies but if they going to use military adventurism to do this ? why the real reason why those military office revolted is the following: 1. corruption in the Government and the military especially the higher ups officials 2. lack of weapons and equipment (Modernization) that they know we can buy but the money being use some were else and logistics they need in the field 3. Using the military for evil propose and evil use against their constitutional mandate by high military and civilian officials this people did not sign up for getting rich and acting official guardia civil of this politiko and other evil acts they just want to service the country both in war time or peace time. so having three military academies is great in all but once again wrong timing and wrong solution to the problem in the AFP only modernizations, protection from partisan politics, and only to serve its constitutional mandate to serve and protect the people. |
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"No sacrifice is too great in the service of freedom." “As long as we are not willing to provide an adequate, suitable and capable defense for this country, we will be oppressed, demeaned and dishonored. We will be the stepping mat of every country in this region,”(Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile) “Just because we are a very weak country militarily, we should not be taken advantage of by more powerful countries" (Senate committee on national defense and security chairman Panfilo Lacson) | |
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| fatbat_mca | Nov 2 2010, 10:52 AM Post #27 |
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parang ganun pa rin ang mangyayari these planned separate academies will create their own respective elitist and idealistic cadre of officers who will possibly lead coups |
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| jedi knight | Nov 2 2010, 11:05 AM Post #28 |
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Do we really think that separate service academies would deter military adventurism? Assuming we have separate academies, the graduates would be integrated in the AFP, whereas they are exposed to all of it's shortcomings plus the inefficiency of the civilian government, then we have an ingredient for adventurism. If the objective is to address military adventurism, counter it with good governance, address the problems cited by Davide Commission in 1989 and the Feliciano Commission in 2003. |
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| jedi knight | Nov 9 2010, 07:50 PM Post #29 |
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We want to abolish the Academy because we want to avoid military adventurism, how many officers or graduates of the academy actually participated in the so called adventurism? I believe they are in the minority. What about PMA trained officers who paid the ultimate sacrifice so we can enjoy our freedom? The likes of Lt. Col. Dennis Villanueva (PMA '86), Lt. Col. Angel Benitez (PMA '90) and Lt. Felix Brawner III (PMA '84). There are many others like them who are nameless. |
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| enterprise18 | Jan 7 2011, 10:00 PM Post #30 |
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I think we should keep the PMA for the army then start a Philippine Naval Academy and a Philippine Air Force Academy. |
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