Air Force trains college students
05/09/2008 | 02:33 AM
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - Fifty students of different colleges in the region are undergoing the annual summer cadre training at the Edwin Andrews Air Base (EAAB) in Zamboanga City, a military official disclosed.
Brigadier General Lino Horacio Lapinid, chief of the Philippine Air Force' Reserve Command, said the summer cadre training is part of the military's Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program.
Students who will complete the 45-day summer cadre training class-23 will become the second-class cadet officers of the military's advanced ROTC program.
After graduating as first-class cadet officers, they will have to undergo the summer cadre training class-43 or the probationary second lieutenant training, which is a requirement aside from written and medical tests to be commissioned into the Armed Forces as officers.
The second-class and first-class cadets are the ones who teach military science and tactics with the supervision of military enlisted personnel and officers to students who are taking ROTC course.
They are entitled to allowance and two sets of military uniforms.
Lapinid said they are enhancing the reserve course program this year to encourage more college students in taking the ROTC course.
It is because most of the college students are taking the National Service Training Program (NSTP), an option given them by the government if they don't want to take the ROTC.- Sun.Star Zamboanga
Brigadier General Lino Horacio Lapinid, chief of the Philippine Air Force' Reserve Command, said the summer cadre training is part of the military's Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program.
Students who will complete the 45-day summer cadre training class-23 will become the second-class cadet officers of the military's advanced ROTC program.
After graduating as first-class cadet officers, they will have to undergo the summer cadre training class-43 or the probationary second lieutenant training, which is a requirement aside from written and medical tests to be commissioned into the Armed Forces as officers.
The second-class and first-class cadets are the ones who teach military science and tactics with the supervision of military enlisted personnel and officers to students who are taking ROTC course.
They are entitled to allowance and two sets of military uniforms.
Lapinid said they are enhancing the reserve course program this year to encourage more college students in taking the ROTC course.
It is because most of the college students are taking the National Service Training Program (NSTP), an option given them by the government if they don't want to take the ROTC.- Sun.Star Zamboanga
