Medal of Valor awardee appointed to head Isabela-based 502nd Infantry Brigade

From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 13): Medal of Valor awardee appointed to head Isabela-based 502nd Infantry Brigade

Col. Bartolome Vicente O. Bacarro, one of the Medal of Valor awardees of the Philippine Army, is set to assume the leadership of the 502nd Infantry Brigade in Echague, Isabela.

This was announced by Army spokesperson Col. Benjamin Hao in a statement Thursday.

Incidentally, Isabela is the place where Bacarro won his Medal of Valor very early in his military career.

The latter, a member of Philippine Military Academy Class of 1988, will be replacing 502nd Infantry Brigade commander James V. Jacob, on October 17.

Bacarro, who was then commanding the 6th CAFGU Active Auxiliary Company, 21st Infantry Battalion, was awarded with Medal of Valor for his courage and gallantry in action during a 10-hour armed engagement with more or less 150 fully-armed communist insurgents that attacked the town of Maconacon, Isabela on Jan. 26 to 27, 1991.

The engagement resulted to the killing of 16 terrorists, wounding of several others, and recovery of one M-14 rifle, one Garand rifle, one claymore mine and one home-made land mine.

He also extricated one wounded civilian, along with his men, and provided immediate medical treatment to them.

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