The Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has sent one battalion of soldiers to help in the reconstruction and repair of ruined houses typhoon-devastated areas in the Visayas.
Captain Alberto Caber, Eastmincom information chief, said the soldiers under the Joint Task Force Tambayayong (JTFT II) came from the Army’s 4th and 10th Infantry Divisions.
They were deployed along with the Naval forces in eastern Mindanao, soldiers from the Engineering Units, and medical volunteer from Kiwanis International Divisions 7 and 8.
This time, the battle-tested soldiers were called as carpenters who would help in rehabilitation and reconstruction of structures in communities badly hit by super typhoon “Yolanda,” Caber said.
These soldiers, he added, had once been in the frontline of the rehabilitation and repair of more than 700 houses, government facilities, schools and churches in the typhoon-stricken areas in Davao provinces.
These soldiers are armed, not with guns and bullets, but with hammers, crew bars, saws and other light construction equipment, Caber said.
http://www.tempo.com.ph/2013/11/carpenter-soldiers-sent-to-leyte/#.UowV044o4cA
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