Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 341)
The purpose of Executive Order No. 341 is to prescribe rules and regulations for the appointment in the Regular Force of the Philippine Air Force of reserve officer pilots who are graduates of the Philippine Air Force or United States Air Force Flying Schools, and non-pilot reserve officers on active duty possessing technical qualifications necessary for the operation and maintenance of aircraft.
To be eligible, a reserve officer must: (a) be a pilot graduate of a Philippine or United States Air Force Flying School or a non-pilot with technical qualifications for aircraft operation and maintenance; (b) be a natural-born Philippine citizen of good moral character and physically fit for general military service; (c) have rendered at least two years of active commissioned service prior to June 22, 1957; and (d) have been on active commissioned status since June 22, 1957.
Seniority is based on the total period of active commissioned service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. An officer with a longer total active commissioned service is senior, subject to specific rules concerning active service specifically in the Philippine Air Force and comparisons with other officers.
Pilot officers who graduated together maintain their relative seniority during flying training. They are inserted as a group in the promotion list arranged by class standing, with the most senior immediately below the least senior member of their class already in the promotion list.
No. No reserve pilot officer shall be appointed under this Order in a grade higher than any regular pilot officer in the existing promotion list who has more active commissioned service.
Non-pilot reserve officers must not be appointed in a grade higher than any non-pilot regular officer with more active commissioned service in the existing promotion list and cannot be placed above such officers.
Not less than twenty-five percent of those commissioned under the provisions of Republic Act No. 1231, as amended, and this Order shall be non-pilots.
The reserve officer shall be appointed in the grade equal to that of the officer above whom he is placed in the PAF regular promotion list.
The Order takes effect immediately upon issuance and shall continue in effect until the expiration of the two-year period provided for in Republic Act No. 1915.