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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 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]
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 Philippine House Committee on Veterans Affairs and Welfare, or House Veterans Affairs and Welfare Committee, is a standing committee of the Philippine House of Representatives. Jurisdiction [ edit ]
For bilateral development projects, the managing office is the United States Agency for International Development, while military affairs are managed by Defense Attaché and the Joint U.S. Military Assistance Group in the Philippines. The Veterans Administration also has its only overseas office, and outpatient clinic, at the Embassy in Manila. [1]
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 ...
Newark Advocate veterans columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library shares Perry Miles' firsthand account of the 1899 Philippine-American War.