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The Philippine Military Academy (Filipino: Akademiyang Militar ng Pilipinas / Spanish: Academia Militar de Filipinas) also referred to by its acronym PMA is the premier military academy for Filipinos aspiring for a commission as a military officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). [2]
The words cadet and officer candidate are synonymous in referring the rank below second lieutenant. In the Philippines, officer candidates are referred to RESCOM, AFPOCS and PCGOBETC students who had baccalaureate degree, foreign service academies and reserve officer pools [ 10 ] undergoing 4 months to 1 year of rigorous military training.
Several Philippine Military Academy classes have achieved notability, either due to highly decorated class members, significant changes in the PMA curriculum, or due to a high proportion of officers elevated to the highest ranks of the Armed Forces of the Philippines or the Philippine National Police. [31] [32] These include:
In 1982, 357 cadets entered the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio; only 128 [a] managed to graduate in 1986. [10] The class valedictorian (ranking first in the class) was Gilbert Gapay, the class baron (immediate assistant of the commandant) and ranking second was Rozzano Briguez, and the class goat (lowest ranking in the class) was Arthur Biyo.
Cadet 4th class Dormitorio, who would have been a member of PMA Madasigon Class of 2023, [7] was a 20-year old plebe of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), the military school of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). His father, retired Army Col. William Dormitorio, is a graduate of PMA Marangal Class of 1974.
In the Philippines, the term cadet is used in mostly military attached organizations, but it is more distinctive in the service academies of the Philippines, [e.g., the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA), Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA), Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) and ...
Graduating cadets of Philippine Military Academy at a homecoming The National Defense College of the Philippines is a graduate-level military college established in 1963. The Philippines patterned all its service academies after the United States Military Academy (West Point) and the United States Merchant Marine Academy (King's Point).
In 1993, women were granted the rights to become trained combat soldiers in the Philippine military when Republic Act No. 7192 was passed, [2] which granted Filipino women to become cadets in the Philippine Military Academy in April 1 of that year. The first women PMA cadets graduated in 1997. [3]