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The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (formerly called the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940) (codified at 50 U.S.C. §§ 3901—4043) is a United States federal law that protects soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, coast guardsmen, and commissioned officers in the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from being sued while in active military ...
Conscription remains a possibility as Section 4, Article II of the Constitution of the Philippines states: [13] "The Government may call upon the people to defend the State and, in the fulfillment thereof, all citizens may be required, under conditions provided by law, to render personal, military or civil service."
The Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP) ( Filipino: Sandatahang Lakas ng Pilipinas) are the military forces of the Philippines. It consists of three main service branches; the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy (including the Marine Corps ). The President of the Philippines is the Commander-in-Chief of the AFP and forms military policy with ...
pvao .gov .ph. 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, [ 3] PVAO serves to fulfill a national commitment as embodied in Section 7, Article XVI of the 1987 Philippine Constitution :
The United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands (Spanish: Gobierno militar estadounidense de las Islas Filipinas; Tagalog: Pamahalaang Militar ng Estados Unidos sa Kapuluang Pilipinas) was a military government in the Philippines established by the United States on August 14, 1898, a day after the capture of Manila, with General Wesley Merritt acting as military governor. [4]
From 1993 onward, women served only in Women's Army Auxiliary Corps of Philippine military. In 1993, women were granted the right to serve as combat soldiers with the passage of Republic Act No. 7192 and the first batch started the training in the Philippine Military Academy in April that year.
ACPC – Agricultural Credit Policy Council [ 1] AFAB - Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan. AFP – Armed Forces of the Philippines. AFPCES – Armed Forces of the Philippines Commissary and Exchange Service. AFPCGSC – Armed Forces of the Philippines Command and General Staff College. AIR RESCOM – Philippine Air Force Reserve Command.
The trial of Philippine president Joseph Estrada ( People of the Philippines v. Joseph Estrada, et al., 26558 Sandiganbayan, September 12, 2007) took place between 2001 and 2007 at the Sandiganbayan. Estrada, popularly called Erap, resigned from office in 2001 during a popular uprising in Metro Manila after an aborted impeachment trial in which ...