QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 1069)
To establish the Chaplain Service as a regular component of the Armed Forces of the Philippines by amending provisions of Republic Act No. 291 (Armed Forces Officer Personnel Act of 1948).
Appointments are made in the Air Force, Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Service, Chaplain Service, and the several corps of the Medical Service; otherwise appointments are made in the Regular Force without specification of branch, arm, or service.
Transfer to but not from the Air Force and the Navy is permitted.
The Secretary of National Defense assigns, and may transfer or reassign, officers (excluding the JAG Service, Chaplain Service, and Medical corps) based on the officers’ professional qualifications and the needs of the branches, arms, and services.
The authorized numbers in each grade for each branch/promotion group (Air Force, Navy, JAG, Chaplain Service, Medical corps, etc.) are to be determined by the Secretary of National Defense within the authorized active list of the Regular Force and within legal limitations.
Officers vested with office in the Regular Force in commissioned officer grades under appointments as officers in branches/arms/services (excluding Air Force, Navy, JAG, Chaplain Service, and Medical corps) are deemed to hold such offices under appointments in the Regular Force without specified branch, arm, or service.
The Secretary prescribes authorized numbers in each grade for each promotion list using a schedule of percentages in each grade for each list.
Up to: 4% for colonel, 10% for lieutenant-colonel, 16% for major, 21% for captain, and 48.5% for the combined grades of first and second lieutenants.
There shall be no second lieutenants in these promotion lists; the numbers authorized for first lieutenant are all those not authorized in higher grades.
It allows numbers to be authorized for any grade in any promotion list in lieu of authorizations in higher grades.
No. The provision shall not operate to require a reduction in permanent grade of any officer already holding a permanent appointment in any promotion list.
The Regular Force promotion list contains names of all promotion list officers except officers of the Air Force, Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Service, Chaplain Service, and the Medical corps.
Except as authorized or expressly provided by law, all initial appointments of Regular Officers shall be in the grade of second lieutenant.
(1) Graduates of the Philippine Military Academy or U.S. Military/Naval Academies or PAF/USAF flying schools; (2) honor graduates of senior military training units in schools/colleges; (3) enlisted men meeting at least one full term of service and other qualifications prescribed; (4) others with qualifications prescribed by the Secretary of National Defense.
Applicants must be not less than 25 nor more than 35 years old; for JAG, engaged in practice of law for at least two years; for Chaplain Service, engaged in practice of the ministry or priesthood for at least two years; and the appointments are in the grade of first lieutenant.
Applicants must be not less than 25 nor more than 35 years old and must have engaged in the practice of medicine or dentistry for at least two years, respectively; appointments are in the grade of first lieutenant.
The President may appoint professors without military rank for the Military Academy with compensation as prescribed; they may be carried in commissioned grades of the Regular Force as the President determines, to be carried as a separate roster in addition to the number of commissioned officers.
It allows vacancies in the grade of first lieutenant and captain to be filled by promotion from lower ranks (second lieutenant and first lieutenant) before completion of three years and seven years of service respectively, and it leaves the required years of service for the Air Force, Navy, JAG, Chaplain Service, and Medical Service to be prescribed by the Secretary of National Defense.
The President selects from permanent grade brigadier-general and colonel. A colonel must have completed at least one year in that grade before nomination. Officers appointed in the JAG, Chaplain, and Medical Services are not eligible for nomination or appointment as Chief of Staff.