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End of an era
The following excerpts from the indicated Letran News articles record the demise of the ROTC unit at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran -- one of the first ROTC units in the Philippines.
http://www.letran.edu/news/jun-aug2002.html
Implementation of the NSTP-CWS Program in the Colegio
By Amur Mina Mayor
. . . President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, signed into law Republic Act 9163 or the National Service Training Program (NSTP).
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It has three service components: the Reserved Officers? Training Corps (ROTC), the Literacy Training Service and the Civic Welfare Training Service (CWS).
Of the three, the Colegio opted to offer the CWS Program . . .
Orientation on the Implementation of the National Service Training Program (NSTP) NCR School Registrars? Association
By Rey Reyes
In accordance with the request of the CHED during the 8th FOSRA Conference in Dagupan, the various registrars? associations in the different regions were instructed to give the NSTP the widest dissemination.
Among the salient points clarified during the open forum were the following:
1. The program of instruction of the ROTC will be more conceptual in orientation, similar to subjects in the general education program. The goal of the AFP is to have a reservist force about 4 times the size of the regular army. This translates to only about 22,000 cadet graduates a year.
2..Schools with less than 350 student-cadets shall have their ROTC units deactivated. A clarification was made that all office equipment in the deactivated units bought out of the share of ROTC fees or trust find belong to the AFP and may be pulled out. Letran was cited as a case in point.
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