Title
Allowances for Philippine Army Air Force Personnel
Law
Executive Order No. 10
Decision Date
Jul 31, 1946
Executive Order No. 10 establishes allowances for flight personnel, restores longevity pay for officers, sets rental allowances for officers stationed in the provinces, and repeals or modifies inconsistent orders and regulations, ensuring consistency and coherence in the compensation and benefits provided to military personnel.

Questions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10)

Executive Order No. 10 is issued “for the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of section ninety of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, known as the National Defense Act, as amended.”

Officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Air Force who, by order of competent authority, are required to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flight and in consequence do participate in such flight.

It is equivalent to 25% of the monthly base pay received by non-flying personnel of the same rank and grade.

First-class mechanics: P75; second-class mechanics: P50; third-class mechanics: P25. This benefit is limited to not exceeding 15% of the enlisted men of the Air Force.

Qualified first, second, and third-class mechanics are “not exceeding 15 per centum of the enlisted men of the Air Force.”

Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of National Defense, enlisted men rated as specialists who are directed to perform duties requiring technical skill shall receive extra pay corresponding to each class per month.

First class: P60; Second class: P50; Third class: P40; Fourth class: P30; Fifth class: P20; Sixth class: P10; Seventh class: P8; Eighth class: P6; Ninth class: P3.

It restores the payment of longevity pay to officers of the Philippine Army who have already acquired such right and privilege under the law.

No. It states that payment of longevity pay to officers who “have already acquired such right and privilege under the law” is restored—i.e., it applies to those who already had the right.

It sets monthly rental allowances by rank: Colonel P60; Lieutenant Colonel P50; Major P40; Captain P30; First Lieutenant P25; Second Lieutenant P25.

The officer must be stationed in the provinces and “when not occupying public quarters.”

Executive Order No. 4 dated July 11, 1946, and other inconsistent orders and regulations, are repealed or modified accordingly.

They apply only when required by order of competent authority to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flight and the personnel do participate in such flight as a consequence.

The Secretary of National Defense is tasked to prescribe, “under such regulations as the Secretary of National Defense shall prescribe,” the implementation for specialist extra pay.


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