Colonel
Agapito Carmelo S NagrampaJr (Center), Chief
of Staff of
1st Infantry (TABAK) Division, Philippine Army
together with
the beneficiary CAFGU Active Auxiliaries
(CAAs)
retirees.
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PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, Aug. 5 (PNA) -– The Philippine Army through the First Infantry
“Tabak” Division has released P427,050 retirement pay to 13 Citizens Armed
Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) personnel who retired from the militia
service.
Army’s First Infantry
Division Public Affairs Officer-in-Charge Capt. Franco Suelto on Tuesday said
each of the 13 CAFGUs received P 32,850 in check each as a separation or
gratuity from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Suelto said the
checks were personally handed over last week by First Infantry Division
Chief-of-Staff Col. Agapito Carmelo Nagrampa, Jr. to the militia retirees in an
event in conjunction with the closing ceremony of Civilian Active Auxiliary
(CAA) Replacement Training at CAFGU Training Center (CTC) in Barangay
Pigkalawag, Sultan Naga Dimaporo, Lanao del Sur.
Suelto said the CAAs
or better known in the community as CAFGUs are part-time soldiers who render
duty for 15 days in a month’s time in detachments in their respective
communities.
Being a CAFGU, Suelto
said, it entails services rendered in meeting local insurgency threat including
disaster rescue and response. The CAFGU are automatically included in the ranks
of reservists in Mobilization Center per provinces of the Ready Reserve Units
of the AFP.
He said there are
more than 10,000 CAFGUs serving in seven provinces that are within the
jurisdiction of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division. (PNA)
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