NOTES

1 Jesus Maria Alia Plana, El Ejercito Español En Filipinas – El Periodo Romantico, ESpaña, Tabapress, 1993, pp. 41-44 and 106-133.
2 Orders Number 6 GHQ National Guards, P.I. dated 8 September 1917.
3 General Orders Number 153 GHQ AFP dated 16 April 1952
4 General Orders Number 233 GHQ AFP dated 13 November 1957
5 Ricardo Trota Jose, The Philippine Army 1935-1942, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1992, Photo Number 33.
6 Lt. Col. Ambrocio P Peña, Bataan”s Own, Manila,: Muñoz Press, Inc., 1967, p. 45.
7 General Orders Number 459 Army Headquarters dated 29 July 1946
8 General Orders Number 255 HNDF dated 2 December 1947
9 Interview of Col Bienvenido V Baquirin PA (Ret) on 26 July 1996.
10 General Orders Number 362 GHQ AFP dated 7 July 1955
11 General Orders Number 379 GHQ AFP dated 7 March 1958
12 General Orders Number 288 GHQ AFP dated 28 December 1956
13 General Orders Number 5 H1TB, 1ID dated 1 March 1961
14 General Orders Number 14 H1ID dated 15 August 1963
15 General Orders Number 8 H1ID dated 25 July 1966
16 General Orders Number 449 HPA dated 4 April 1974
17 General Orders Number 252 HPA dated 24 June 1976
18 General Orders Number 171 GHQ AFP dated 8 April 1986
19 General Orders Number 571 GHQ AFP dated 20 November 2006

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

COLONEL RESTITUTO L AGUILAR CAV (GSC) PA started his career in the Armor as a Platoon Leader and later Executive Officer of the "B" Company, 20th Mechanized Infantry Battalion, 5th Inf Bde (Sep) from 1978 to 1979, PA; Commanding Officer of the 6th Light Armor Company (Sep), LABde, PA from 1992 to 1994 and Commanding Officer of the 1st Light Armor (Tagapanguna) Battalion, LABde, PA from 1994 to 1996. He also served as Deputy G3, LABde from 1991 to 1992 and became the first Editor in Chief of the Armor Newsletter (now Armor Journal). He is currently assigned as Group Commander, 4th Regional Community Defense Group, ARESCOM after his almost 3-year stint as Deputy Brigade Commander of the 601st, 602nd and 604th Infantry Brigades