‘Tabak’ Division releases P427,050 retirement pay to 13 militiamen

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Aug. 5 (PNA) -– The Philippine Army through the First Infantry “Tabak” Division has released P427,050 retirement pay to 13 Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) personnel who retired from the militia service.

Army’s First Infantry Division Public Affairs Officer-in-Charge Capt. Franco Suelto on Tuesday said each of the 13 CAFGUs received P 32,850 in check each as a separation or gratuity from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

Suelto said they have served more than eight years in the militia service under the Army’s 5th Infantry “Cadre” Battalion. Eight of them are from Lanao del Norte while the other five from Zamboanga del Sur.

Suelto said the checks were personally handed over last week by First Infantry Division Chief-of-Staff Col. Agapito Carmelo Nagrampa, Jr. to the militia retirees in an event in conjunction with the closing ceremony of Civilian Active Auxiliary (CAA) Replacement Training at CAFGU Training Center (CTC) in Barangay Pigkalawag, Sultan Naga Dimaporo, Lanao del Sur.

Suelto said the CAAs or better known in the community as CAFGUs are part-time soldiers who render duty for 15 days in a month’s time in detachments in their respective communities.

Being a CAFGU, Suelto said, it entails services rendered in meeting local insurgency threat including disaster rescue and response. The CAFGU are automatically included in the ranks of reservists in Mobilization Center per provinces of the Ready Reserve Units of the AFP.

He said there are more than 10,000 CAFGUs serving in seven provinces that are within the jurisdiction of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division. (PNA)
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