{"id":861,"date":"2015-12-15T02:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T02:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intranet.untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/?p=861"},"modified":"2015-12-15T03:01:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T03:01:45","slug":"afp-vows-heightened-efforts-to-recruit-citizen-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"AFP Vows Heightened Efforts to Recruit Citizen Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.untvweb.com\/photos\/?p=79\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-867\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AFP-SHF.png\" alt=\"RADM Aurelio Rabusa Jr. of the AFP&#039;s Reservist and Retirees Affairs discusses with Get It Straight host Daniel Razon the organization&#039;s efforts to recruit more citizen soldiers (Photo from UNTVweb.com).\" width=\"576\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AFP-SHF.png 576w, https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AFP-SHF-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief of Staff for Reservists and Retiree Affairs, J9 Rear Admiral Aurelio Rabusa, Jr. recently remarked that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will heighten its efforts in recruiting citizen soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen or reserved soldiers are those individuals who voluntarily offer their services to support the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s military reserve force helps the government in resolving internal conflict as well as in providing humanitarian assistance, and rescue and relief operations in times of disasters and natural calamities.<\/p>\n<p>During Rabusa\u2019s guesting in the UNTV public affairs program Get It Straight with Daniel Razon, he said that the organization is intensifying its recruitment endeavors, especially in the provincial level. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be serious [in our efforts]. From 2016 to 2022, we need to see the establishment of army, navy and air force in each province,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP also aims to boost the disaster response and rescue operations trainings reservists undergo. <\/p>\n<p>RADM Rabusa further pointed out the significant help reservists can contribute in safeguarding the territories of our country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Reservists] can aid in maintaining community defense per province so that our regular troopers can concentrate on the territorial defense of our whole nation,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p>This December, the AFP is celebrating their 80th founding anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Chief of Staff for Reservists and Retiree Affairs, J9 Rear Admiral Aurelio Rabusa, Jr. recently remarked that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will heighten its efforts in recruiting citizen soldiers. Citizen or reserved soldiers are those individuals who voluntarily offer their services to support the AFP. The country\u2019s military reserve force helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,129,25,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}