{"id":240754,"date":"2019-12-24T12:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=240754"},"modified":"2019-12-24T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T17:52:23","slug":"shortlist-for-afp-chiefs-successor-now-being-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/24\/shortlist-for-afp-chiefs-successor-now-being-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlist for AFP chief\u2019s successor now being created"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142154\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Major-General-Noel-Clement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142154\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Major-General-Noel-Clement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Major-General-Noel-Clement.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Major-General-Noel-Clement-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Major-General-Noel-Clement-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clement was appointed AFP chief last September 24. He is scheduled to retire early January when he reaches the mandatory military retirement age of 56. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/agiladivision\/photos\/a.1728895737130036.1073742098.107520479267578\/1728896007130009\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/agiladivision\/\">10th Infantry Agila Division Philippine Army\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A shortlist on the possible successor of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief-of-Staff Gen. Noel Clement is being drawn up, military spokesperson, Marine Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo, said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The list, Arevalo said, will be forwarded to Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who will then give it to President Rodrigo R. Duterte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;All of the recommendees possess the character, the competence, managerial expertise, leadership and the respect of our troops (which is needed) to follow the (AFP) Transformation Roadmap,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clement was appointed AFP chief last September 24. He is scheduled to retire early January when he reaches the mandatory military retirement age of 56.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clement, a member of Philippine Military Academy Class of 1985, succeeded his classmate, Gen. Benjamin Madrigal Jr., who left the service after reaching the mandatory military retirement age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The AFP chief was born Jan. 5, 1964 in Lipa, Batangas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; A shortlist on the possible successor of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief-of-Staff Gen. Noel Clement is being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":142154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240755,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240754\/revisions\/240755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}