PBBM promotes presidential security chief
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. promoted his Presidential Security Group Commander, Col. Ramon Zagala, to Brig. General. Zagala was appointed PSG ...
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AFP spokes heads PSG, senior aide to the President
President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has chosen Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Col. Ramon Zagala as acting commander of the ...
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AFP to deploy 40k personnel to secure polls
The military will deploy over 40,000 personnel across the country for the May 9 elections, Armed Forces spokesman Col. Ramon ...
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Military plane ‘stalled’ midair and crashed in July–AFP
A Philippine aircraft carrying soldiers crashed in July after an “unrecoverable stall”, killing more than 50 people in one of ...
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A poor image
The President’s spokesman and the military showed a poor understanding of the standards of photojournalism when they defended the release ...
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3 killed in shootout with troops in QC
Two top-ranking members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and a still unidentified suspected cohort were killed during a ...
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Blast rocks military camp in Sulu; 5 dead, 9 injured
Zamboanga City—Five people including three soldiers were killed and nine other people were wounded in an explosion near a military ...
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US proposes bigger ‘games’ with PH army
The United States Army has proposed the conduct of large-scale military exercises with their local counterparts in the country to ...
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1,500 cut ties with Reds, front groups–AFP
At least 1,500 former members of various front organizations with links to the communist movement have sworn allegiance to the ...
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