Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 341)
Eligibility requires that a reserve officer must be a pilot graduate of the Philippine or US Air Force Flying Schools, or a non-pilot with technical qualifications for aircraft operation and maintenance, be a natural-born Filipino of good moral character and physically fit, have rendered at least two years of active commissioned service before June 22, 1957, and 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, with detailed provisions regarding active commissioned service in the Philippine Air Force and considerations of service in guerrilla units or prior to Aviation Cadet appointment.
Pilot officers who graduated together maintain their relative seniority from flying training; groups are placed collectively according to class standing; officers not immediately commissioned or without continuous service are inserted accordingly; and no reserve pilot officer is placed above a regular pilot officer with more active service.
Yes, non-pilot reserve officers cannot be appointed in a grade higher than any non-pilot regular officer in the existing PAF promotion list who has more active commissioned service.
Not less than twenty-five percent of those commissioned must be non-pilots.
The Order takes effect immediately upon issuance and continues in operation until the expiration of the two-year period provided for in Republic Act No. 1915.
No, periods of active commissioned service in guerrilla units are not credited for seniority purposes.
June 22, 1957, marks the date by which the reserve officer must have already rendered two years of active commissioned service and have been on active commissioned status since that date to qualify for appointment under this Order.