QuestionsQuestions (GENERAL ORDER NO. 10)
It is an executive/military administrative issuance by the President under martial law, prescribing increased monthly quarters allowance for AFP enlisted personnel to maintain morale and efficiency while the AFP is engaged in suppression and anti-lawlessness operations.
Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972.
General Order No. 1 dated September 22, 1972.
The powers vested in the President by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the AFP.
To enhance and keep at a high level the morale and efficiency of AFP officers and men while performing the grave and delicate tasks of suppressing subversive/criminal conspiracies and eradicating lawlessness, anarchy, disorder, and wanton destruction.
Effective October 1, 1972.
One hundred pesos (₱100.00) per month.
One hundred pesos (₱100.00) per month.
Ninety pesos (₱90.00) per month.
Ninety pesos (₱90.00) per month.
Both are given eighty pesos (₱80.00) per month.
Eighty pesos (₱80.00) per month.
Master Sergeant/Chief Petty Officer—₱100; Technical Sergeant/Petty Officer First Class—₱100; Staff Sergeant/Petty Officer Second Class—₱90; Sergeant/Petty Officer Third Class—₱90; Corporal/Seaman First Class—₱80; Private First Class/Seaman Second Class—₱80; Private/Apprentice Seaman—₱80.
It refers to “monthly quarters allowance,” quantified as fixed monthly amounts per enlisted rank.
Done in the City of Manila on September 30, 1972.
It provides the stated policy justification for the executive measure—showing that the allowance increase is tied to sustaining AFP operational effectiveness during martial law.