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  ROTC in the Ateneo > Training Activities > Weapons Training > Wooden Rifles
 
 

Rifle facscimiles were introduced in the Ateneo de Davao College in School Year 1992 - 1993; signaling the return of ROTC, replacing Citizen Military Training.

Firing position practice during a formation at the Agro-Industrial College of the Philippines Grounds in the late 80's. Note the field marker used by one of the cadets, in lieu of a wooden rifle. Unknown photographer

Prior to this, weapons training had been limited to annual familiarization firings, and basic firing position lessons -- using rifles borrowed from the Ateneo High School Citizen Army Training armory. Cadets were no longer taught the manual of arms.

 

Firing position practice at the Matina campus.

Unknown photographer

All this changed with ROTC's return. The rifles however, at least in Davao City, were purchased by the cadets themselves. It was a controversial practice that even brought charges of corruption against a Commanding Officer of the Regional Community Defense Unit that oversaw ROTC.

The policy remains till the unit's dissolution; though progressive-minded cadets and training staff had been steadily expanding the unit's inventory of rifles -- with the end view of eliminating the need for cadets to purchase rifles.

Wooden Rifles
Firing Accident of 1990

 

   
 

 

 
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