QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 341)
The statute authorizes the President to appoint not to exceed sixty reserve officer pilots into the Regular Force.
A reserve officer must be: (1) a pilot graduate of the PAF Flying School or US Air Force Flying School, or a non-pilot with technical qualifications for aircraft operation and maintenance; (2) a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, of good moral character, and physically fit for general military service; (3) have rendered at least two years of active commissioned service prior to June 22, 1957; and (4) have been on active commissioned status since June 22, 1957.
A pilot must be a graduate of the Philippine Air Force Flying School or the United States Air Force Flying School. A non-pilot must possess technical qualifications necessary for the operation and maintenance of aircraft.
It sets two conditions: (1) the reserve officer must have at least two years of active commissioned service prior to June 22, 1957; and (2) must have been on active commissioned status since June 22, 1957.
The total period of active commissioned service in the AFP is the basis for determining seniority, such that among all regular officers already in the PAF promotion list and those appointed under EO 341, the officer with the longer total active commissioned service in the AFP is senior, subject to the provisos in Section 2(a).
It is reckoned from the date of assignment for duty in any unit of the PAF.
Periods of active commissioned service prior to appointment as Aviation Cadet and periods of active commissioned service in any guerrilla unit are not credited.
It provides a safeguard in the seniority comparison: the difference between the officers’ total active commissioned service in the AFP (where one has longer active commissioned service in the PAF but lesser total AFP service) must not be less than the difference between their respective active commissioned service in the PAF. If it is, the officer with the longer active commissioned service in the PAF shall be senior.
The relative seniority existing among themselves during the flying training period must be maintained among the pilot officers who were student officers and graduated together.
They must be inserted as a group in the PAF promotion list effective at the time of appointment. The group is arranged according to their class standing upon graduation, such that the most senior is immediately below the least senior member of their class already in the promotion list.
Such officer is inserted in the promotion list immediately above the group of officers appointed under EO 341 whose length of active commissioned service is closest to but does not exceed his length of active commissioned service.
As a rule, they should not be inserted above any officer already in the PAF promotion list who graduated ahead of them. The exception is if the earlier graduate was deferred for promotion by a selection board under the provisions of Republic Act No. 291.
No reserve pilot officer may be appointed in a grade higher than that of any other regular pilot officer in the existing PAF promotion list who has more active commissioned service than the former.
(1) No non-pilot reserve officer shall be appointed in a grade higher than that of any non-pilot regular officer with more active commissioned service; and (2) no non-pilot reserve officer appointed under EO 341 may be placed above any non-pilot regular officer in the existing promotion list who has more active commissioned service than the former.
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.
At least twenty-five percent (25%) of those commissioned must be non-pilots.