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Philippine Army: Commander, AFP Western Command Appointed Branch Vice Admiral Alfonso F. Torres Jr. [94] May 18, 2024 (228 days) Philippine Navy: Commander, AFP Eastern Mindanao Command Appointed Branch Lieutenant General Luis Rex D. Bergante [95] [96] June 7, 2024 (208 days) Philippine Army: Commander, AFP Western Mindanao Command Appointed Branch
The AFPSOCOM traces its roots to the Army Special Warfare Brigade (ASWABde) that was organized in January 1978. [3] The Army Special Warfare Brigade was the first attempt to unify the specialties of two army units with the most highly trained personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Special Forces and the Scout Rangers, and structure their collective efforts into a highly ...
The AFP Counterintelligence Group (Armed Forces of the Philippines Counterintelligence Group or AFP-CIG) is the counterintelligence command of the AFP. The first iteration of the AFP-CIG was created in 1989 until it was disbanded in 1995 during the administration of then president Fidel V. Ramos. The current iteration of the AFP-CIG was fully ...
The Philippines' defence minister on Tuesday justified the country's deployment of a U.S. medium-range missile system and plans to acquire its own, despite opposition from China, a longstanding ...
Preemptive evacuation underway in Philippines. 08:30, Stuti Mishra. Over a hundred people have been evacuated from the coastal areas of the Philippines as typhoon Mawar raises alerts for heavy ...
The Philippine Air Force Blue Diamonds "Sabre" emblem on a F-86F Sabre, circa 1962. The Philippine Air Force had a number of aerobatic teams among which the PAF Blue Diamonds was the first to be founded, and was one of the oldest formal aerobatics teams in the world.
On 29 June, a band of militants launched an offensive on an AFP patrol base in Agusan del Norte. Eight militants and seven AFP soldiers were killed, and the rebels abducted three AFP personnel. [citation needed] On 31 June, three guerrillas were killed by the Philippine Army in Agusan del Norte. [citation needed]
651 units of KM-450 trucks were purchased by AFP in 2007 (603 for Army, the rest shared by General Headquarters and Philippine Air Force), and 137 units in December 2010. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] 190 more were delivered in 2013. 60 units of KM-451 were purchased by AFP in 2012, of which 48 went to the Army.