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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 ================= ================= =================
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Col. Orlando de Leon: The Officer Who Said No Rimban Luz, PCIJ, June 23, 2006
The Marine leadership would later explain that de Leon was being relieved in anticipation of his next assignment - as chief of staff of the Naval Education and Training Command in Zambales. But his farewell speech delivered during the turnover ceremony at the Marine Headquarters on June 15, 2006 says something else. By his gesture, however, de Leon, a member of PMA Class 1982, has shown the public that the country’s armed services do have officers who know how to just say no. Of course, there had been others before him, like the late Army Capt. Rene Jarque, a staunch reformist but who had to leave his career in 1998 disillusioned by the unchecked corruption in the military he had exposed. More recently, there were Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani (now retired), and Col. Alexander Balutan, both also from the Marines, who defied a presidential order against military officers appearing before congressional inquiries when they testified before the Senate last year on allegations of widespread cheating during the 2004 elections. Gudani, who was assistant superintendent of the PMA then, even prefaced his testimony by invoking the honor code taught to cadets - "that a cadet does not cheat, does not steal, does not lie nor tolerate these things." Other soldiers, however, have chosen to stay to reacquiant the public with the idea that there could be more than a few good men in organizations as politicized and tainted with corruption as the AFP and the Philippine National Police (PNP). Some of them are featured in the November-December 2005 i Report story written by Luz Rimban, The Officers Who Say No. =====================================
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week’s resignation of Marines chief of staff Col. Orlando de Leon citing a
politicized military among his reasons only highlights the woes that
continue to plague the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) since the time
of Marcos, but which has again become more pronounced under Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.