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==[[Southern Leyte News]]== | ==[[Southern Leyte News]]== | ||
''' | '''AFP conducts battery of tests for Soldier Course in Maasin City, Sogod''' | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id= | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=54115 | ||
* | *Wednesday, September 14, 2011 | ||
: by ES Gorne | : by ES Gorne | ||
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Sept. | MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Sept. 14 (PIA) -- Over a hundred applicants mostly criminology students and ROTC cadets from Maasin City and Sogod, Southern Leyte took the first battery of tests for Candidate Soldier Course (CSC) and Officer Candidate Course (OCC) held in the province. | ||
“ The said battery of tests were usually conducted in Manila and Cebu City. This is the first time ever held in the provinces, ” TSG Marcos Maquelabit, Operations Non-Commissioned Officer of 805 CDC, Reserve Command (ARESCOM) based in Maasin City said in an interview with PIA Southern Leyte. | |||
That the Army Recruitment Center (ARC) is located in Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Maquelabit said. | |||
Once the examinees passed the exams, it would qualify them to the CSC and OCC and eventually as an army officer, he added. | |||
Mostly of the criminology fourth year students and ROTC cadets from the Saint Joseph College (SJC) in Maasin City took the exams in the morning and the fourth year students of Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) in Sogod, Southern Leyte later in the afternoon of the same day, he added. | |||
While the said army reserve command were able to enlist 460 Enlisted Personnel (EP) with 16 reserve officers, with the highest rank of Major being given to Governor Damian Mercado and another Major rank to Vice Governor Miguel Maamo. Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco’s rank as Major is now on the process and the Municipal Mayors rank will be Captains, he added. | |||
The enlisted personnel also includes barangay officials where barangay captains and councilors were ranked as I Lt. and II Lt., respectively, Maquelabit added. | |||
He said these people are the military reserves based in the province that could be immediately pulled out in times of emergencies to include natural threats to the national security. ### (PIA SoLeyte/esg) | |||
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