1ID promotes 2 medical front-liners, dons rank to 8 reservists

From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 20, 2021): 1ID promotes 2 medical front-liners, dons rank to 8 reservists (By Teofilo Garcia, Jr.)

The Philippine Army’s 1st Infantry Division (1ID) promoted to the next higher ranks two medical front-liners of the command, an Army official said Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Generoso Ponio, 1ID commander, said the two promoted medical front-liners are Major Lorelyn Cabute, who was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and 1st Lieutenant Naciba Guro to Captain.

Ponio said Cabute, a chief nurse, and Guro, of the medical corps, are both assigned at 1ID Station Hospital.

At the same time, the 1ID donned ranks to eight newly-commissioned reservists in a ceremony Monday at Camp Major Cesar Sang-an that houses the 1ID headquarters in Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur.

Commissioned to Lieutenant Colonels were Mister Simlo Lomarda (public school district supervisor), and Miss Dinah Ortezuela (teacher); for Majors were Mister Joel Siotong (Dean of Student Affairs at the Mindanao Autonomous College Foundation, Inc. in Basilan), Mister Ricky Alagase (teacher), Mister Junard Sagape (teacher); for Captain was Pagadian City Councilor Sam Tyra Co; and for 1st Lieutenants were Mister Ronnel Montebon (school registrar) and Mister Jeffrey Tagapulot (teacher).

“We the Army, will continuously evolved into a professional organization, it will tap the vast resources afforded to us by our citizenry. We should instill patriotism, love of country in our young professionals and encouraged them through the spirit of volunteerism to serve our country and our people as reserve officers,” he said.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1137336