The Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) has officially
launched a list of former and current cadets of the Philippine Military Academy
(PMA).
PVAO launched "The Academy Register 2016: A Register of
Former and Current Cadets of the Philippine Military Academy and Allied
Services Academies" to honor the 17,000 men and women who have attended
the PMA and donned its gray uniform since its establishment in 1898.
PVAO Veterans Memorial and Historical Division head Brig.
Gen. Restituto Aguilar (retired) said the list contained names of the first PMA
graduates in 1898 and incoming members of PMA Class of 2020 who are now in
their first or plebe year.
The register also includes those sent by the Philippines
Present during the launching ceremonies were Defense
Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, PVAO administrator Lt. Gen. Ernesto Carolina
(retired), AFP Chaplain Brig. Gen. Tirso Dolina, Lt. Gen. Salvador Mison,
Academy Register 2016 Edition adviser, PMA head Major Gen. Donato B. San Juan
II, and PMA Alumni chief executive officer and chair Deputy Director Anselmo S.
Avenido.
Aguilar spent over 17 years of intensive research,
particularly on the personal data that were difficult to obtain and if
available, were found in various and separate documents and kept in innumerable
locations.
“I was still quite young when I started with a dream. Now,
over 17 years later, I am glad it is no longer an empty statement but a
reality," he added.
The register also contains the individual military history
of all young men and women who were appointed by the Military and Civil
Governors General of the American Colonial Government and the Presidents of the
Commonwealth and the Republic of the Philippines
to train in their nation’s Constabulary and Military Academies
“This is not a mere list of individuals. It is a history
book of over a century of the academy’s existence. It narrates the history of
the individual, of the class, and of the academy,” Aguilar added.
The register is expected to gain worldwide circulation as
copies will be furnished the US Library of Congress; the libraries of the US
Military Academy, US Naval Academy, US Air Force Academy, and US Coast Guard
Academy; Virginia Military Institute; The Citadel; Australian Defense Force
Academy; Royal Military Academy – Sandhurst (UK); Ecole Special Militaire de
Saint-Cyr (France); Japanese National Defense Academy; Republic of Korea Armed
Services Academies; Southeast Asian military academies; and the AFP, PNP and
PCG training institutions and selected universities and colleges in the
Philippines and abroad.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=909289
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