ARMED Forces chief Gen. Emmanuel Bautista will begin his farewell visits to major military units next week.
Bautista, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1981, is reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56 on July 20 but he will step down two days earlier. He assumed the post in January last year.
His first stop will be the Philippine Army, his branch of service, which will accord him a testimonial parade at the Army headquarters in Fort Bonifacio on Friday next week, Lt. Col. Noel Detoyato, Army spokesman, said yesterday.
It was not immediately clear when Bautista will make his farewell visits to the Navy and Air Force, the two other major services.
Detoyato said Army chief Lt. Gen. Hernando Iriberri will host the testimonial parade for Bautista. Incidentally, Iriberri is among the top contenders for the post of AFP chief.
Apart from Iriberri, other contenders to succeed Bautista are Lt. Gen. Gregorio Catapang, AFP vice chief; Lt. Gen. Virgilio Domingo, AFP deputy chief; Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Delgado, Air Force chief; Vice Adm. Jesus Millan, Navy chief; Lt. Gen. John Bonafos, chief of the AFP Central Command; and Lt. Gen. Rustico Guerrero, AFP Western Mindanao Command chief.
Catapang, Guerrero, and Domingo are classmates of Bautista at the PMA while Delgado, Millan and Bonafos are members of the PMA Class 1982. Iriberri is from PMA Class 1983.
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