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Scout Rangers, Marines and Special Action Forces Officers under Investigation and Custody, in Detention, and/or Changed ================= ================= ================= ================= ================= ================= ================= ================= ================= ================= Sen. & Lt. Col. Gregorio Honasan ================= ================= ================= |
Mabuhay si Capt. Nicanor Faeldon! Ramon Farolan, Inquirer, December 18, 2005
Captain Faeldon is one of several junior officers involved in the Oakwood mutiny of July 2003. The young officers were airing their grievances which succeeding events proved accurate and well-founded. Unfortunately, they were cradling high-powered weapons while making known their complaints about the system. But if one thinks about it, how best can you highlight needed reforms in the Armed Forces except by drastic measures? Talk, talk, talk, usually gets us nowhere. At any rate, after negotiations for their return to barracks were successfully concluded, the government turned around and threw out the conditions agreed upon by the negotiators and the mutineers. Whatever happened to the recommendations of the Feliciano Commission which investigated the mutiny? Like the earlier Davide Report, not much seems to have resulted from the hearings. All we have to do is bring out both reports and check the findings and recommendations against the actions taken to see if we have made any progress. Faeldon was born on July 29, 1965 in the province of Batanes. After a degree in political science at the National University, he took up the Navy Officers' Qualification Course in 1990. He was called to active duty in January 1992. He then attended the Marine Officers' Basic Course, became airborne-qualified and attended the Force Recon Course which is the Marine equivalent of Special Forces training. At the time of the Oakwood incident, he was serving as an ordnance course director in ammunition management at the Marine Training Center in Ternate, Cavite. You can see that he is highly trained for combat. In a CD-recorded message released after his escape, he stated that he was leaving "to join the fight for a credible government." He is the second mutineer to escape from detention. The first was 2nd Lt. Junnibert Tubo, also with the Marines. As usual, the military announced a "nationwide manhunt" for Faeldon but if-as AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Generoso Senga says-the AFP has no wiretapping capability, how can the military hope to monitor or track down Faeldon as well as other "enemies of the State"? For that matter, how can it track down terrorists bent on carrying out bombing missions if it doesn't have such basic tools as wiretapping devices? Someone is fooling the Filipino people and, sooner or later, the truth will be revealed. Remember, it is the cover-ups that get people into real trouble. In the Watergate scandal, it was the cover-up, not the break-in by political operatives, which brought down the Nixon presidency. But going back to Captain Faeldon and his other colleagues still in detention, I wish them all more strength, perseverance and determination in their efforts to bring about a better armed forces, a better society for all Filipinos. Their time will come. Of this, I have no doubts. Mabuhay si Captain Faeldon! ===================================== |
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THE
Armed Forces of the Philippines has branded Marine Captain Nicanor Faeldon
as an "enemy of the State." What a silly statement! The last time I came
across this phrase was when communist insurgents used it to rationalize the
execution of some of their victims. Whoever is behind this declaration is
either hallucinating or completely out of touch with reality, and he is the
greatest ass-licker in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Actually, the
real enemies of our people today are walking in the corridors of power,
laughing their heads off.