New US envoy to visit PMA this weekend

BAGUIO City, Philippines – Newly-designated US ambassador to the Philippines Phillip Goldberg is visiting the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) on Saturday.

Goldberg, who will visit Baguio City for the first time, will be given military arrival honors and parade and review at the country's primier military training institution.

PMA spokesperson Major Lynette Flores said that the US ambassador will turn over additional donation of learning materials to the American Learning Center at the PMA Learning Resource Center.

The American Learning Center (ALC) at the PMA’s Learning Resource Center (PMA-LRC) was inaugurated by Goldberg's predecessor, US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr., in July 2011.

The United States government has also turned over to the PMA various equipment, including computers, web cams, printers, DVD and CD players and an LCD TV.

Also turned over were 62 new book titles and a set of CD Audio of the Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, which is being used by the cadets and researchers in improving their knowledge on the history of the Americans and the Filipinos.