Tuesday, December 18, 2012

PA: Philippine Army launches character excellence project

From the Philippine Army Website (Dec 17): Philippine Army launches character excellence project

The Philippine Army launches a character excellence project dubbed as “Destined to Win”, on Monday, December 17, at Luna Hall, ACSS, TRADOC, here. At least 100 people including soldiers, officers and special visitors from the academe and religious sector attended the ceremony at 10 a.m. “Destined to Win” is a character excellence project of the Army under the Army Transformation Roadmap (ATR) 2028 which aims to promote distinctive character and sustainable value system of individual soldier. The project also aims to inform, educate and internalize to Army personnel the foundation of correct values and character development necessary to raise the level of military professionalism in pursuit of the ATR.
 
Army Vice Commander Maj Gen Essel C. Soriano ably represented Army Chief Lt Gen Emmanuel T Bautista in the launching. In his speech, delivered by Soriano, Bautista said: “We will always be guided by the principles of the IPSP Bayanihan and the ATR which aims to provide an opportunity to strengthen values of our soldiers making them not only competent but also principled and morally upright individuals.” The ATR is a long-term, 18-year transformation and governance program aimed at promoting genuine transformation that would result to a world-class Army that is a source of national pride by 2028. Under it are comprehensive guidelines and approaches to achieve an Army that is credible, reliable, responsive, more capable and more professional committed to its mandate of serving the people and securing the land.
 
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“Destined to Win” emphasizes that the “man behind the machine” matters most in any transformation experience. At the end of the program, the Army is expected to have been able to provide spiritual and moral direction to its soldiers. “In order for us to become the world-class Army that we aspire to be, it is essential that we pay attention to enrich not only our physical and mental toughness but our moral configuration as well,” said Soriano reading CGPA’s message. The character excellence program shall be implemented until the command reaches its Base Camp in 2028 through the conduct of lecture series that are clustered into three areas. The first is the Discovery Series which is consisted of primordial use of equipment vis-à-vis values as direction finder for the succeeding activities. Second is the Exploration Series focused on the appreciation of other mission-essential values and may be supplemented as necessary. Coming in third is the New Generation Leader Series which is a ladderized training for advocates/facilitators/trainers to equip Officers and Non-Commission Officers in the workplace or mission area. After the launching, the Army hopes to further strengthen its resolve to contribute in the fulfillment of its mission to win the peace.
 

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