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The Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) (Filipino: Tanggapan para sa Ugnayan ng mga Beteranong Pilipino) is the Philippine agency for Filipino war veterans. Under the Department of National Defense, PVAO serves to fulfill a national commitment as embodied in Section 7, Article XVI of the 1987 Philippine Constitution: “The State shall ...
The Department of National Defense exercises executive supervision over the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO), the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP), the Government Arsenal (GA), and Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC). It is also ...
The Veterans Memorial Medical Center was established pursuant to Public Law 865, 80th U.S. Congress on July 8, 1948, which provided $9.4 million for the construction of a hospital facility with the land to be donated by the Philippine government. [1]
Delfin Negrillo Lorenzana, OLH, KGOR (born October 28, 1948) is a retired Philippine Army general who currently serves as the Chairman of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority since 2022. He previously served as Secretary of National Defense in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2016 to 2022. [ 1]
Instituted a reorganization program in the Department of National Defense to assert civilian supremacy over the military; Initiated reforms in the Retirement and Separation Benefit Systems (RSBS), the pension fund of the soldiers; Instituted a computerization program for the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO)
Fortunato Abat was born on 10 June 1925 in San Juan, La Union to Epifanio Abat and Esperanza Ubongen. He studied in Singalong Elementary School in the city of Manila from 1932 to 1939, then in Araullo High School from 1939–41. His secondary education was abruptly halted by the Japanese invasion during World War II.
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Statistics source: Philippine Veterans Affairs Office The Capas National Shrine ( Filipino : Pambansang Dambana ng Capas ) in Barangay Aranguren, [5] Capas, Tarlac , Philippines was built by the Philippine government as a memorial to Allied soldiers who were interned at Camp O'Donnell at the end of the Bataan Death March during the Second World ...