Retired Marine general appointed DND Usec

From ABS-CBN (Sep 1): Retired Marine general appointed DND Usec

President Benigno Aquino III has appointed a retired Marine general as an undersecretary for the Department of National Defense.

Presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte first announced the designation of Retired Major General Natalio Ecarma.

DND spokesman Peter Paul Galvez said the agency will announce the specific title that Ecarma will hold on Tuesday.

However, a source from the DND said Ecarma will take over as undersecretary for defense affairs.

"General Ecarma is taking over as undersecretary for defense affairs. Actually he already reported as early as last week," the source said.

Ecarma headed the multi-national United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in Syria in 2010.

He is a member of the Philippine Military Academy class of 1981, and was a classmate there of Armed Forces chief Gen. Emmanuel Bautista and PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima.
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