Military housing backed

From the Manila Standard Today (Feb 19): Military housing backed

Vice President Jejomar Binay said soldiers who are ready to give up their lives for the country need more than a roof over their heads.

“The housing program for soldiers is only part of the government’s efforts to improve lives in recognition of their unselfish contribution in shaping a new Philippines,” he said in Pilipino at the homecoming of the Philippine Military Academy over the weekend.

Binay, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, said he expected the Department of Budget and Management to release on time over P20 billion pledged by the national government for the housing needs of the armed forces.

Addressing the PMA alumni following the parade of classes at Borromeo field, he underscored the discipline of the soldiers joined by the citizenry to reject oppression in the historic EDSA Revolution of February 1986.

Binay said the same sense of discipline would enable the nation to face “more complex issues on our territorial integrity, such as the challenge of the West Philippine Sea,” climate change and internal security.

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