Lactao up for higher post in Armed Forces

From the Visayan Daily Star (Mar 4): Lactao up for higher post in Armed Forces

Maj. Gen. Oscar Lactao, the commanding general of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, is up for a higher position in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, this month.

Lactao, who had served as commander of the 303 rd Infantry Brigade for almost two years in Negros island, yesterday confirmed his new assignment as Inspector General of the AFP in two weeks' time.

The AFP IG is a three-star position.

Lactao, who is expected to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general with his new position, is a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1984.

Other PMA Class 1984 members, who had served Negrenses, are Maj. Gen. Rey Leonardo Guerrero, who is also up for promotion as lieutenant general, being commander of the AFP Eastern Mindanao Command, and Brig. Gen. Jon Aying, deputy AFP chief of staff for Plans.

Newly-promoted, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Madrigal, Army chief of staff, was reportedly being groomed to replace Lactao as 4ID commander.

AFP chief of staff, Hernando Iriberri, and Brig. Gen. Joselito Kakilala, also a member of PMA Class 1984, are retiring from the military service next month.

Kakilala, a Bacoleño, is the commander of the AFP Civil Relations Service.

Iriberri had earlier said he already submitted his retirement papers to President Benigno Aquino III. He is retiring on April 22.

The retirement of Iriberri would trigger a reshuffling of senior military officers occupying key positions in the AFP hierarchy.

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