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3 named as top contenders for Army chief post

Jaime Laude - The Philippine Star
January 16, 2013 | 4:16pm

 

MANILA, Philippines - Three senior Army officials are the top contenders for the unit's top position that will be vacated by newly-appointed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Bautista.
 
Bautista of Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Dimalupig Class of 1981 is taking over command of the AFP on Thursday from outgoing AFP chief Gen. Jessie Dellosa of the PMA Class of 1979.
 
Dellosa is bowing out of the military service as he is reaching the military’s mandatory retirement age of 56 on January 20. President Aquino is presiding over the command turn-over from Dellosa to Bautista at the AFP headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City.
 
Being considered for the post that wioll be vacated by Bautista are AFP Vice Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Noel Coballes, Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) commander Maj. Gen. Alan Luga and  Maj. Gen. Ceasar Ronnie Ordoyo, 6th Infantry Division commander based in Awang, Maguindanao.
 
Coballes and Ordoyo belong to the PMA Class of 1980 while Luga is a member of PMA Class 1981.
 
Sources said that of the three, Coballes, former commander of the Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincon), is at present the top choice to be the next Army chief.

ALAN LUGA

ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES

BAUTISTA

BAUTISTA OF PHILIPPINE MILITARY ACADEMY

CAMP AGUINALDO

CEASAR RONNIE ORDOYO

COBALLES AND ORDOYO

DELLOSA

DIMALUPIG CLASS

EMMANUEL BAUTISTA
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