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Air
Force stocks CVPC with old rifles
This
excerpt was taken from: The Visayan Daily Star (http://www.visayandailystar.com/2002/June/28/negor6.htm)
The
Central Visayas Polytechnic College has become a repository
of old firearms from the Air Force, with the arrival
of 500 garand rifles transported from the University
of Negros Occidental-Recoletos in Bacolod City to
its main campus in Bajumpandan.
The
guns arrived Wednesday on board a Huey helicopter.
Dr.
Henry Sojor, president of CVPC said that the school's
Airforce ROTC unit, including the naval ROTC, is the
biggest in terms of enrolment all over the country,
with about 3,100 enrollees.
Aside
from the ROTC training, CVPC is also implementing
the civic welfare program while the literacy component
of the National Service Training Program is already
inherent in the college of education of the state
college.
Sojor
said he believes that, after a period of time, the
CVPC airforce and naval ROTC trainees will become
the pool of reservists to be distributed to different
units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The
airforce ROTC unit of CVPC is under the command of
Capt. Luciano Saiyo.
Saiyo
is complemented by three trainors who are regular
members of the Philippine Airforce. However, due to
the increased enrollment, Saiyo is requesting for
additional personnel.
The
coordinator of the National Training Program, William
Aranas, said the school will soon adopt a model barangay
for its civic welfare training system.
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