The official was the guest of honor and speaker during the
turnover of command rites held at the 15th Regional Community Defense Group
headquarters, Philippine Army Advance Command Post, Barangay Bancasi, this
city.
Miciano said that the ARESCOM which (is) a major unit of the
Philippine Army has continued with its mandate which is to develop, train,
administer and equip reservists and prepare them to augment the regular forces
in cases of national emergencies such as wars, invasion or a full scale
rebellion, as well as during disasters and calamities.
According to Miciano, ARESCOM has 50,000 ready reserve
forces nationwide and more or less equal number of standby reserve forces.
“Ready reserve forces can be readily mobilized in a certain number of days,
while the standby reserves are those aged and retirees, but who can still
provide services, not necessarily combat actions but the services which are
very necessary in cases of the aforementioned eventualities,” Miciano
explained.
According to him, the ARESCOM recruits reservists from
various sources such as the Reserved Officers Training Course (ROTC), the
Citizen’s Military Training (CMTs) or military retirees.
He said that the country’s reserved forces is also ready and
prepared as well as equipped to respond not only during external and internal
security threats but also during emergencies, disasters and calamities.
“Yearly, we are frequently visited by typhoons, floods and
earthquakes. Thus, included in the trainings of the reservists are disaster and
calamities response, water search and rescue, collapsed structure rescue and
retrieval operations,” Miciano said.
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