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2 Pinoys among Annapolis naval academy grads
Topic Started: May 25 2008, 12:17 AM (571 Views)
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2 Pinoys among Annapolis grads (excerpt)

By Jose Katigbak STAR Washington Bureau

Sunday, May 25, 2008

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland – Two Filipinos, John Berjuega of Catanduanes and Carl Catalan of Dumaguete, and 14 other foreigners from 10 different countries graduated from the US Naval Academy.

They were among 1,037 cadets who received their ensign’s bars on Friday from the prestigious academy at Annapolis, about an hour’s drive from Washington DC.

Also included in the class of 2008 were a number of Filipino Americans, including Jerson Garcia Peredo of California and Geraldine Favor Manalo of Virginia.

Berjuega and Catalan will have to serve a minimum eight years in the Philippine Navy to help pay off $200,000 invested in each of them by the government to cover their board, tuition and stipend in four years at Annapolis.

Juanito Catalan, who works for Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) in Dumaguete, Oriental Negros, said he is “very, very proud of his son Carl but at the same time apprehensive because I know that at some point he will be in harm’s way.”

Among those who traveled to Annapolis to see the newly minted Filipino ensigns were Capt. Rolando Recomono, naval attaché at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, and Capt. Zyril Carlos who is himself graduating next month from the Naval War College in Rhode Island after a 10-month advanced course on joint operations and strategy formulation.

Berjuega who majored in information technology, and Catalan, whose expertise is ocean engineering, are the latest in a list of about 50 Filipinos who have graduated from Annapolis.

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