TRAVERSING JUNGLE PASSES. Patrolling teams need to traverse the natural obstacles such as the Makapiko River or the deep canyons that can best be traversed using ropes and makeshift bridges. (PIABohol/47IB)
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Nov. 20 (PIA) -- The Philippine Army (PA) Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) opens in Bohol a soldier’s patrol exercise that would be most arduous but assures soldier combat-patrol readiness through a battery of physical and mental endurance tests one candidate patrol team completes in a given time.
The patrol exercise would now be based in the Philippine Army’s new Jungle Base Camp in the middle of the forests of Batuan, Bilar, Balilihan, and Catigbian, which opened on Nov. 18, 2019 in Brgy. Rizal Batuan.
Patterned after a world-renowned soldier patrol exercise used by the elites of the British Army, the PA TRADOC in Bohol eyes whetting the operational capability of Philippine soldiers in leadership, field craft, discipline, mental, and physical toughness as well as creativity in the PA's Dagohoy Patrol Exercise.
"Dagohoy Patrol Exercise is a continuous long-range patrol of up to eight soldiers who must get across the most rugged and most mountainous terrains of Bohol in 48 hours," the operations officer of the Visayas Army Training Group, Capt. John Alvin Rico, said.
"Named after Francisco Dagohoy, the famous Boholano hero who led the longest revolt in the country, the Dagohoy Patrol Exercise would be open to all PA Units who intend to enhance their operational capability through a battery of physical and mental endurance tests," Rico added.
"The patrol is composed of an eight-man team each carrying a minimum load of 50 pounds, and as a team complete the various scenarios along the route that include tough exercises to score specific points," Rico, who briefed military officials and soldiers enrolled in the current training courses, explained.
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Nov. 20 (PIA) -- The Philippine Army (PA) Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) opens in Bohol a soldier’s patrol exercise that would be most arduous but assures soldier combat-patrol readiness through a battery of physical and mental endurance tests one candidate patrol team completes in a given time.
The patrol exercise would now be based in the Philippine Army’s new Jungle Base Camp in the middle of the forests of Batuan, Bilar, Balilihan, and Catigbian, which opened on Nov. 18, 2019 in Brgy. Rizal Batuan.
Patterned after a world-renowned soldier patrol exercise used by the elites of the British Army, the PA TRADOC in Bohol eyes whetting the operational capability of Philippine soldiers in leadership, field craft, discipline, mental, and physical toughness as well as creativity in the PA's Dagohoy Patrol Exercise.
"Dagohoy Patrol Exercise is a continuous long-range patrol of up to eight soldiers who must get across the most rugged and most mountainous terrains of Bohol in 48 hours," the operations officer of the Visayas Army Training Group, Capt. John Alvin Rico, said.
"Named after Francisco Dagohoy, the famous Boholano hero who led the longest revolt in the country, the Dagohoy Patrol Exercise would be open to all PA Units who intend to enhance their operational capability through a battery of physical and mental endurance tests," Rico added.
"The patrol is composed of an eight-man team each carrying a minimum load of 50 pounds, and as a team complete the various scenarios along the route that include tough exercises to score specific points," Rico, who briefed military officials and soldiers enrolled in the current training courses, explained.
SEEING MODELS, TESTING THEM. Patrol exercise candidates testing the makeshift bridges that they can construct as they move out on patrol exercise during the entire 48-hour course. (PIABohol/47IB)
The basic criteria to assess the performance of the patrol team is by determining whether or not they complete the various tasks and achieves its mission.
Most of these patrol exercises are assessed for military skills, orders and debriefing, as well as obstacle crossing drills, reconnaissance patrol, patrol base operations, field stripping, field observation, tactical combat casualty care including first aid and casualty evacuation procedures, land mine breaching and mine field awareness, raids, close combat skills, radio communications skills, and physical endurance.
"This Dagohoy Patrol Exercise aims to give a challenging patrol exercise to enhance unit operational capability and develop a common knowledge and understanding of the different kinds of operations," Rico said.
That same day, the PA also opened its Jungle Training base in Brgy. Rizal with the Commanding General of the Philippine Army, Lt. Gen. Macairog Alberto, TRADOC Commander Maj. Gen. Cornelio Valencia Jr., Bohol Administrator Atty. Kathryn Fe Pioquinto representing Gov. Arthur Yap, Department of Interior And Local Government Provincial Director Johnjoan Mende, Batuan Sangguniang Bayan Chair on Peace and Order Gamaliel Merlas representing Mayor Antonino Jumawid, Rizal Brgy. Chairman Rolando Pataca, and Police Regional Mobile Force Battalion Commanding Office P/Lt. Col. Esmail Gauna.
Also on that day, the government released to 25 former rebels (Kanhi Rebelde) or KRs now Kauban sa Reporma, livelihood cash assistance amounting to P975,000.
The cash the KRs received forms part of the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (ECLIP) of the government.
Given as an act of goodwill, the government through the ECLIP hands to the former members of the armed struggle and Militia ng Bayan (MB) assistance after they decided to go mainstream and take on the rule of law as they took anew their pledge of allegiance to the government for peace and order sustainment. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
The basic criteria to assess the performance of the patrol team is by determining whether or not they complete the various tasks and achieves its mission.
Most of these patrol exercises are assessed for military skills, orders and debriefing, as well as obstacle crossing drills, reconnaissance patrol, patrol base operations, field stripping, field observation, tactical combat casualty care including first aid and casualty evacuation procedures, land mine breaching and mine field awareness, raids, close combat skills, radio communications skills, and physical endurance.
"This Dagohoy Patrol Exercise aims to give a challenging patrol exercise to enhance unit operational capability and develop a common knowledge and understanding of the different kinds of operations," Rico said.
That same day, the PA also opened its Jungle Training base in Brgy. Rizal with the Commanding General of the Philippine Army, Lt. Gen. Macairog Alberto, TRADOC Commander Maj. Gen. Cornelio Valencia Jr., Bohol Administrator Atty. Kathryn Fe Pioquinto representing Gov. Arthur Yap, Department of Interior And Local Government Provincial Director Johnjoan Mende, Batuan Sangguniang Bayan Chair on Peace and Order Gamaliel Merlas representing Mayor Antonino Jumawid, Rizal Brgy. Chairman Rolando Pataca, and Police Regional Mobile Force Battalion Commanding Office P/Lt. Col. Esmail Gauna.
Also on that day, the government released to 25 former rebels (Kanhi Rebelde) or KRs now Kauban sa Reporma, livelihood cash assistance amounting to P975,000.
The cash the KRs received forms part of the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (ECLIP) of the government.
Given as an act of goodwill, the government through the ECLIP hands to the former members of the armed struggle and Militia ng Bayan (MB) assistance after they decided to go mainstream and take on the rule of law as they took anew their pledge of allegiance to the government for peace and order sustainment. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
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