Thanks to a source that has requested anonymity, I now have the following names for the indicated positions

Commo Sanchez COMNSSC
Capt Agdamag COMNAVFORNOL
Capt Rodriguez PATROL FORCE

Does anyone here have their first names? Google searches haven't revealed any recent news articles for these folks.

COs for COMNAVFORCEN and the Ready Force have been identified and have been removed from the list above

i might be wrong...capt rodriguez's first name is david...i'll check it out from a commander friend of mine... :bow:

Thanks Maldita :thumb:

This is where this information will go: StarTracker

Fajardo promoted to general

Col. Gregorio Fajardo, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, has been promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Fajardo who also served as commander of the 11th Infantry Battalion in 2004, was among the 10 senior military officials promoted effective Dec. 23 last year, that includes his predecessor, Brig. Gen. Jogy Leo Fojas, who is now a major general. Fojas who spent several years as commander of the 57th Infantry Battalion in Mabinay, Negros Oriental, and later as commanding officer of the 303rd Infantry Brigade, is now the AFP deputy chief of staff for operations.

The promotion and retirement of several senior military officers may also trigger a revamp in the AFP, starting next month.

Maj. Gen. Victor Ibrado, commanderl of the 3rd Infantry Division, is reportedly among those affected by the revamp as he is being groomed to be the commanding general of the Special Operations Command.

SOCOM controls the Army's Special Forces and Scout Ranger Regiments, elite units of the Philippine Army, which used to be commanded by now AFP chief of staff Hermogenes Esperon.

Meanwhile, the NAPOLCOM provincial officer Joseph Celiz has also been promoted to assistant regional director of Napolcom in the Autonomous Region for Muslim in Mindanao, effective Jan. 1.

However, it has not been determined yet who will succeed Celiz as the Napolcom provincial officer of Negros Occidental.*GPB

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New 302ND IB head assumes
By KIT BAGAIPO

Army Col. Jesse Dellosa was formally installed as new commanding officer of the 302nd Infantry Brigade during turnover ceremonies at the command's base in Camp Rajah Sikatuna, Katipunan, Carmen town replacing Brig. Gen. Arthur Tabaquero last Monday.

The turnover was witnessed by Maj. Gen. Victor Ibrado, commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division who said the 302nd Brigade is in good hands as Dellosa is one of the most awarded officers of the Armed Forces.

Tabaquero, who is now chief of the Resource and Management Office of the Philippine Army headquarters in Fort Bonifacio, thanked local officials and the different sectors of the community that contributed to the recognition of the 302nd IB as best brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division.

Dellosa is a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class '79 and was former battalion commander of the 1st Scout Ranger regiment in Sulu.

The new commander declared his commitment to community participation and promised to continue Gen. Tabaquero's good relations with the Boholanos during his acceptance speech.

Dellosa, who has Bicolano roots, have seen action in the army's campaigns against the Abu Sayaff in Mindanao.

Tabaquero served as 302nd IB commander for a year.

http://www.theboholchronicle.com/fpage.php...12&s7=&s9=&s10=

Thanks for the info :armycheers:

Updated the StarTracker accordingly

302 Inf Bde

Officers should get a star not just for their battle scars but for their role in social development

By CRISELDA YABES
Newsbreak

In a recent series of seminars on conflict management, Marine officers in Mindanao reached a consensus: the battlefield is now in the hearts and minds of people. Soldiers can no longer be mindless fighting machines but partners in social development and strengthening of governance in their communities.

Although it may not be easy to gauge the full scope of this trend in the military, this could give substance to a long-term vision of reforms spearheaded by the defense department, starting with the system of promotions in the Armed Forces.

The Philippine Defense Reform program aims to turn a military struggling with overlapping problems and inadequacies into a corporate structure of professionalism—“where you are dependent on a few good men and, despite the weakness of the organization, empower them, and make them a standard to follow,” said Rodel Cruz, who helped set up the PDR framework when he was undersecretary of defense.

And like in any corporation honing its best and brightest, the reforms have to build roadmaps for military education and to look into the promotion system.


From warriors to diplomats
About 70 percent of the requirements for promotion, from the rank of lieutenant up to full colonel, fall under a quantitative assessment of their performance against the “Order of Battle”: the body counts, the number of cleared guerrilla fronts, the amount of firearms recovered. A carry-over from the martial law era, this is how officers get their Medal of Valor or Distinguished Conduct Star medals. This is the premium they put into their careers, the incentive to get a star on their shoulder.

But since the early 1990s, there have been some changes in the parameters to give weight to the qualitative aspect of service reputation, their integrity and dedication to the job, and how they can handle stability under pressure. It also gives points to physical appearance (the current chief of staff, Gen. Alexander Yano, has made it clear that he wants his men to be in good form and shape if they want to be promoted).

Rear Admiral Emilio Marayag, who was assistant to the deputy chief of staff in charge of personnel (J-1), said the military has “the most stringent promotion system” compared to other countries in the region, so much so that “you have to be superman” to be able to skirt it.

If the promotion system is to be refined, he summarized the ideal stages of promotion for an officer: starting out as a “warrior” when he is a lieutenant up to captain, then becoming a “manager” as he reaches the senior level of lieutenant colonel, and elevated to “diplomat” when he becomes colonel.


Potentials a factor, too
From here on, Marayag explained, the promoted officers would form the “management of the elite” as it ought to be and patterned after corporations making a selection of their best men.

Being a general should take into account 50 percent of his “command estimated potential” or the ability to see things strategically, use logic and analysis, value interpersonal relationships, and have a sense of reality.

This will require the armed forces staff office for plans (J-5) to seriously re-evaluate how it measures success in the field, to determine new indicators that would capture the true picture of the peace and order situation of a given area and its social and economic climate.
“We were on that stage of planting the idea to J-5 to develop a new campaign plan [when we left the defense department],” said Cruz. “The old one can no longer be a way of measuring success and using it to promote officers. What measurement must we now use to hold a commander accountable?”


The likes of Ferrer
Cruz said the new assessment system “should be more sophisticated, and it begins with a plan of identifying elements. How do you identify the situation of ‘clear-hold-consolidate-develop’? Are there new businesses in the area? What about the attendance of schoolchildren? It does not have to be purely military!” He acknowledged that this requires policy discussion.

“If you rely on that ‘Order of Battle’ mindset, how can you measure the effectiveness of officers like Ferrer?” he said.

The former defense undersecretary was referring to Maj. Gen. Raymundo Ferrer, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division whose leadership approach has been to strike a balance between the “hard” tack of launching offensives against rebels and the “soft” strategy of training his men in peace building and reaching out to the communities.

Defense Undersecretary Ernesto Carolina said the promotion system must also recognize an officer’s role in social development, not just the “body count” in the battlefield. Military units have taken on more civil-military operations, a lesson learned from fighting insurgencies for almost four decades.

Slowly steps are being taken, he said, citing the Gawad Sa Kaunlaran award for officers involved in civic action projects.


Finishing school for generals
The reforms will also establish a one-month finishing school for colonels before they are promoted to the next level of a one-star rank, a course that would “teach generals to think like generals,” Carolina said. They would delve into the subject matter of international defense, security relations, defense cooperation, and geopolitics to widen their perspective from the parochial focus on internal security operations.

The number of senior generals selected, two and three stars, is so limited at the top, usually not more than a dozen. The chief of staff holds a four-star rank and a law just passed gives him a fixed tenure of three years even if it goes beyond his retirement age of 56.

Previously, a succession of chiefs of staff had to serve a term of one year or so because retirement caught up on them and rarely did Presidents extend their duty. The revolving door system of changing leaderships limited their chances of undertaking major policies and programs.

The quota in the pyramid scale is determined by the number of soldiers—currently at 180,000 men—which in turn is determined by the budget approved by government. If, after 30 years of service, an officer has not acquired his first star, he is then forced into retirement by the rule of attrition; they call this “Up or out.”

But these proposed modifications in the promotion system are still being studied. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, who chairs the PDR board, has said that an officer who is at his best doing staff work in the headquarters does not have to be thrown in the combat field in order to fulfill his requirement for a promotion, or the other way around.

“A major challenge,” he said in an interview shortly after taking office last year, “is to get people out of the field into PDR staff jobs at the DND because it’s a disincentive for officers. They don’t get points for promotion by doing staff work. There’s a need to review the promotion system.”


Start at PMA
When the defense department was bringing the PDR wagon from camp to camp a few years ago, it discovered in its nascent stages that breeding good leaders also comes from education, molding them even before they join the service. At the premier Philippine Military Academy (PMA), where 10 percent of the armed forces officer corps come from, curriculum standards were deteriorating and the number of applicants had dropped.

Like the chiefs of staff coming and going, the superintendents of the PMA were staying for a term of at least six months only, using that position as a pit stop before getting promoted.

So in order to develop a roadmap for a better quality education and to restore PMA’s elite reputation, the matter of changing the status of the superintendent had to be done.

The institution had weakened and a leader had to stay longer, to give him enough time to effect changes and reforms and building on his successor for a continuity in maintaining a high level of standard. There were too many changes in the curriculum to suit the biases of the superintendents. A semester’s load of 20 units was too heavy. The attrition rate was too high.

Getting a superintendent to believe in a vision, he would also need an incentive to stay. The department then worked out a way in the promotion system to allow a superintendent to obtain a three-star rank while running the school for two or three years until his retirement, making his position a destination in his career. That went fairly well.


Lessen the clique’s hold
For positions higher than that, getting past the Board of Generals is currently considered an obstacle. The board is composed of the chief of staff and the chiefs of the major service commands—Army, Navy, and the Air Force. Billeting generals for positions tend to be highly personal, and it has been an unwritten practice that classmates (on the board) choose classmates (for promotion) to maintain a ruling PMA clique.

The PDR hopes to lessen this, with a civilian form of management in the defense department helping to create a better set of criteria for the sake of professionalism in the long run.

Most officers will say this is part of their culture from the academy days, but that they have gone a long way. In the time of the Marcos dictatorship, the system was worse, they say—getting a promotion was more like a “point system,” which meant that all the commander in chief had to do was to “point” to anyone to his liking regardless of rank, seniority, or merits.

33 officers named to key military posts

to key positions in the Armed Forces.

Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said yesterday the new appointees were passed upon by the Defense Department and the Armed Forces Board of Generals.

Leading the new appointees are Rear Adm. Danilo Cortez as Navy vice commander; Brig. Gen. Francisco Lanuza as deputy commander of the Northern Luzon Command; Commo. Mario Catacutan as chairman of the bids and awards committee; Brig. Gen. Arturo Ortiz as commander for Special Operations Command of the Army; Brig. Gen. Pedro Soria as chief of the Resource Management Office; Maj. Gen. Eduardo Oban as deputy chief of staff for Plans; Brig. Gen. Lino Horacio Lapinid as commander of the 1st Air Division of the Air Force.

Brig. Gen. Alejandro Camagay Jr. was named commander of the Air Force Reserve Command; Brig. Gen. Artemio Orozco as Air Force inspector general; Maj. Gen. Alfredo Cayton Jr. as commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division; Brig. Gen. Reynaldo Sealana as deputy chief of staff for Civil-Military Operations.

Col. Alex Albano was designated as commander of the Army’s 802nd Infantry Brigade, 8th Infantry Division; Col. Alan Luga, commander of the Army’s 802nd Infantry Brigade, 8th Infantry Division; Col. Roy Deveraturda, commander of the Air Force’s 570th Composite Tactical Wing; Col. Romeo Calizo, commander of the Army’s 1001st Infantry Brigade, 10th Division.

Designated as deputy commander of the Southern Luzon Command was Capt. Rosauro Arnel Gonzales Jr.; Commo. Eriberto Suria Jr., commander of the Naval Forces Eastern Mindanao; Commo. Eugenio Velasco, deputy commander of Navy’s Philippine Fleet; Capt. Zyril Carlos, commander of the Patrol Force, Philippine Fleet; Capt. Jaime Bernardino, deputy commander of the Naval Education and Training Command; Maj. Gen. Romeo Lustestica as commander of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division; Maj. Gen. Carlos Holganza as the new deputy chief of staff for Operations, J3; Brig. Gen. Anthony Alcantara as commander of the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command; Brig. Gen. Jorge Segovia, chief of the Armed Forces Command Center; and Brig. Gen. Dominador Aquino III, assistant deputy chief of staff for Operations.

The President also designated Rear Adm. Emilio Marayag as military inspector general effective Dec. 30.

Capt. George Apaga will take over as commander of the Naval Reserve Command.

Commo. Ramon Espera Jr. was designated as commandant of the Armed Forces Command & General Staff College; Commo. Orwen Cortez, commander of the Naval Forces West; and Capt. Edgardo Tamayo, commander of the Service Force of the Philippine Navy.

Officers designated as military attachés were Col. Inocencio Mayangao, United Kingdom; Col. Raul del Rosario, Vietnam; and Col. Manuel Gonzales, Thailand. Jaime Pilapil

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Written by Butch Fernandez / Reporter
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 21:37

THE Commission on Appointments (CA) confirmed the promotions of 14 ranking military officers, led by controversial Southern Luzon Command Chief Lt. Gen. Delfin Bangit, who is said to be on Malacañang’s shortlist of potential replacements of incumbent Armed Forces Chief of Staff Alexander Yano.

The bicameral body, likewise, confirmed the appointments of 23 foreign-service officers and diplomats, led by Ambassador to Ireland Ariel Abadilla.

In its last plenary session before adjourning for the traditional Lenten recess, the CA also confirmed the long-delayed promotion of Bangit’s 1978 Philippine Military Academy classmate, Army Col. Reynaldo Ordoñez, described as a “former military rebel” whose promotion was held back by his involvement in the 1987 failed coup.

Other AFP officers confirmed on Wednesday were Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Oscar Rabena; Vice Adm. Leonardo Calderon; Brig. Gens. Allan Bontuyan, Danilo Ferrer, Isidoro Macaranas, Felipe Tabas, Renato David, Carlos Clet, Jose Tony Villarete and Rustico Guerrero; and Cols. Samuel Felipe and Victoriano Dominguez. Also confirmed from the Department of Foreign Affairs were Chiefs of Mission Class II (Ambassadors) Leo Herrera-Li and Ma. Leticia Ramos, and Career Minister Christopher Montero; Foreign Service Officers-Class I (Consuls) Arlene Magno, Jesusa Susana Paez, Germinia Aguilar-Usudan, Igor Bailen, Senen Mangalile, Roberto Manalo, Pablito Mendoza, Elizabeth Te, Charmaine Rowena Aviquivil, Josel Ignacio, Jaime Ramon Ascalon, Eric Gerardo Tamayo, Deena Joy Amatong and Enrico Fos; and, Foreign Service Officers Class II Voltaire Onesimo Mauricio, Jim Tito San Agustin, Marford Angeles, Maria Alnee Arugay and Mersole Mellejor.

But the CA deferred confirmation of the promotion of Brig. Gen. Jonathan Martir to major general due to unresolved questions raised by Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada.

Nobody can now abuse the system of appointments with the creation of the Commission of Appointments. Even he most corrupt president cannot bypass it no matter how popular he/she is. Democracy and the rule of law are solid institutions we can invoke to Joma Sison and his illegitimate son, munting sako, and illegtimate daughter Julie who have been stalking me in my home and workplace befriending my co-workers and alienating me. Munting sako is my co-worker in IT. Democracy is the worst form of government with the exception of all the rest.

http://www.tempo.com.ph/news.php?aid=48342

6 senior AFP officers get new positions


President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has approved the designations of six senior military officers to key positions in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as she signed the promotion to the next higher rank of 120 other officers, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro announced yesterday.


Teodoro said the Chief Executive approved the appointments upon the recommendation of the Department of National Defense (DND) and the AFP.

Those designated to new positions were Maj. Gen. Ben Dolorfino as commander of the Western Mindanao Command effective July 16, while Commodore Mario Catacutan will be AFP’s deputy chief of staff for personnel effective July 4.

Brig. Gen Josue Gaverza, Jr. is the new commander of the Army Support Command, while Col. Maximo Caro is the new head of the Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade, Infantry Division. Their designations took effect on June 21.

The President also signed the designation of Col. Alexander Dicang as assistant division commander of the Philippine Army’s (PA) 1st Infantry Division, and the assignment of Col. Rolando Tenefrancia as new commander of the PA’s 102nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. Their assignments took effect on June 1.

Meanwhile, Teodoro said President Arroyo, in a resolution dated June 4, 2009, signed the ad interim appointment of a brigadier general, a rear admiral and three colonels to the next higher rank upon the recommendations of the DND and the AFP Board of Generals.

Promoted to rank of major general was Brig. Gen. Antonio Bautista and RAdm. Emilio Marayag, Jr. as Vice Admiral. Their appointments took effect on June 6.

The promotion to the rank of brigadier general of Army Col. Gominto Pirino took effect on June 6, while the appointments of Marine Colonels Celestino Pereyra and Eugenio Clemen will take effect on July 25.

Meanwhile, in a separate resolution dated June 4, 2009, President Arroyo also promoted to the rank of colonel 55 regular officers and 32 reserve officers of the Philippine Army.

Fifteen reserve officers of the Philippine Navy were promoted to the rank of colonel and captain, while 13 reserve officers of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) were promoted to colonel. (Elena L. Aben)

Villamor welcomes 10 PAF Generals

Ten newly-promoted Philippine Air Force Generals were formally welcomed last 25 July 2009 by the top PAF leadership in a Donning Of Rank Ceremony held at the Hall of Flags at PAF headquarters in Villamor Air Base, Pasay City.

Lt. General Oscar H Rabena, PAF Commanding General, formally bestowed the shoulder boards of the newly promoted generals before the presence of their respective families.

The new PAF Generals were Brigadier General Pedro S Rieza Jr, Brigadier General Joel C Marayag, Brigadier General Carlix P Donila, Brigadier General Francisco N Cruz Jr, Brigadier General Rolando C Hautea Jr, Brigadier General Cipriano D Gundao, Brigadier General Gregorio E Macapagal at Brigadier General Lauro Catalino G Dela Cruz.

Newly-promoted two-star generals of the Philippine Air Force - PAF 1st Air Division Commander Major General Lino Horacio E Lapinid and Air Force Inspector General Major General Artemio G Orozco – lead the honorees in the star-studded ceremony.

They, General Rabena said, exemplified the highest ideals of values of the profession arms.

Brigadier General Rieza, who hails from Panagniban, Camarines Norte, is a 32-year veteran pilot who graduated from the PAF Flying School at Fernando Air Base in Lipa City on December 1978. He is currently the Wing Commander of PAF’s 355th Air Engineer Wing based at Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga.

Brigadier General Marayag, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1980, is the base commander of Villamor Air Base. He is a 34-year veteran facility manager trained in airport operations management, disaster preparedness and hostage negotiation on top of his pilot and combat training.

Brigadier General Donila, who holds a masteral degree in strategic studies from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, is the Commander of PAF’s Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga. A PMA Class 1978 mistah of General Rabena, he also finished his Masters in Public Administration from the Philippine Christian University and a Defense Studies Diploma from Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. He likewise took Strategic Business Economics Program at the University of Asia and the Pacific in Mandaluyong. Before joining the PMA, he was a BS Chemistry student at the University of the Philippines.

Brigadier General Cruz, the current base commander of Air Force City in Clark, Pampanga, is a graduate of the PMA in 1979 who also possess a Master of Science in Strategic Studies degree from the Singapore Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies. Among his education degrees are Project Management Course from the Asian Institute of Management, Master of Arts in Public Management, and Strategic Business Economics Program, both from the University of the Philippines.

Brigadier General Hautea, a native of Manapla, Negros Occidetnal, is the Commander of the 220th Airlift Wing. He studied in Don Bosco Technical Institute in Victorias, Negros Occidental and La Salle Bacolod before he joined the PAF Flying School where he graduated in 1980. Before he assumed the leadership of the 220th Ailift Wing, he was the Chief of Command Staff of the PAF Tactical Operations Center in Mactan, Cebu.

Brigadier General Gundao, a PMA 1979 graduate and a member of the PAF Flying School Class of 1981, is a 34-year veteran in the military service who also took logistics management course at the Ateneo de Manila University on top of his military studies in international defense management, logistics decision making and military strategic planning. He currently commands the PAF 420TH Supply Wing.

Brigadier Macapagal, the commander of the 410th Maintenance Wing, is a 1980 graduate of the PMA who also finished a Master of Arts in Defense Studies from Kings College in London. His military trainings includes Aircraft Accident Investigation Course at the Air Force Officers School and the Overseas Joint Warfare Course conducted by the Australian Defense Force in Australia.

Brigadier General De La Cruz, a PMA Class of 1980 graduate, commands the 205th Tactical Helicopter Wing. He holds a Diploma in Arts from the Massey University in New Zealand and a Masters in Management major in Public Administration from the Philippine Christian University. A former deputy commander of the 710th Special Operations Wing and of the 205th THW, he trained in various military courses both here and abroad.

Major General Orozco, the current Air Force Inspector General, is a 1978 graduate of the PAF Flying School who joined the service in 1976 via the Air Force Officers School. He was the Wing Commander of the 570th Composite Tactical Wing in Palawan prior to his current post.

Major General Lapinid, the commander of Luzon-based 1st Air Division, is PMA Class 1977 graduate who also holds a Masters in Business Administration degree from the Ateneo de Manila University. He also used to command the Air Reserve Command and the 4th Tactical Operations Wing.

In his speech, General Rabena reminded the newly-promoted generals to “always exhibit strength in character, use power to impact the lives of others and be the beacon of hope to other officers and men of the Philippine Air Force.”

http://www.paf.mil.ph/HQ/PIO/PR%20JULY%202...%20generals.htm

Nope, its Miguel.