After the birth of Bobby, I was designated as Intelligence Officer, or Bn. S-2, 1st BCT, stationed in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. I had soldiers trained as Scout Rangers dressed in civilian clothes and armed with Thompson Submachine Guns carried in “bayon” or buri, who began operating in groups of six. Instead of riding Army convoys […]
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1994 Memoir – 165. Operations on Mt. Pinatubo Against the Huks
We got information that the HUKS were training their recruits in Mt. Pinatubo, Zambales (the volcano that exploded in 1991), where two cadre barracks called Station University were spotted by planes of the U.S. Air Force from Clark Air Base. This mountain overlooking Clark Air Base was infested by Huks. They had to be driven […]
1994 Memoir – 164. Work as a Fighting Lawyer
As a student officer in the Infantry School in Ft. McKinley, Rizal (New Fort Bonifacio), I not only missed using my profession as a lawyer but my salary was also reduced because of my reduction in rank. My only advantage being a regular officer is that my term of office was no longer just good […]