Leah Agonoy, Tabak Defense Press Corps president. |
By JONG CADION
PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, (Jan. 13 Fronbtline News) -– The Philippine Army’s First
“Tabak” Infantry Division held an Entrustment of Firearms ceremony as the
command issued service firearms to the newly-enlisted 137 soldiers.
The ceremony was held
Saturday at the Tabak gymnasium at Camp Major Cesar Sang-an that houses the
headquarters of the First Infantry Division in Barangay Upper Pulacan,
Labangan, this province.
First Infantry
Division commander Maj. Gen. Felicito Virgilio Trinidad said the ceremony was
participated in by the following: Mayor Maria Fe Pitogo, Josefina town, this
province; Salong Sunggod, regional director of the National Commission of
Indigenous Peoples (NCIP); Fr. Miguel Cahanap, parish priest of Molave, this
province; Pastor Jerry Carbajosa Jr., head of this city’s All the World
Outreach Church; Nestor Carbonera, executive director of Xavier Agricultural
Extension in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay; Dr. Helen Bulawin, Tabak Elementary
School principal; and, Leah Agonoy, Tabak Defense Press Corps president.
Trinidad said they
were tasked to entrust the firearms to the newly-enlisted soldiers.
The firearms were
handed over to them and they were the ones who turn it over to the soldiers
coupled with advises on their responsibility in handling the guns as soldier.
Trinidad said the
ceremony is aimed to instill service-oriented attitude to the soldiers.
The ceremony was
witnessed by some members of the family of the newly-enlisted soldiers who also
provided moral advice to them during the occasion.
The newly-enlisted
soldiers, all with the rank of private, composed of the six-month Candidate Soldier
Course Class 318-2013 that graduated last Dec. 16.
Fr. Miguel Cahanap, parish priest of Molave, ZamboSur |
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