{"id":243207,"date":"2020-01-27T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=243207"},"modified":"2020-01-27T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:29:44","slug":"afp-chief-santos-promoted-to-4-star-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/27\/afp-chief-santos-promoted-to-4-star-rank\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP chief Santos promoted to 4-star rank"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_241808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241808\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cs-santos-1-6-20-a-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241808\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cs-santos-1-6-20-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cs-santos-1-6-20-a-1.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cs-santos-1-6-20-a-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cs-santos-1-6-20-a-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cs-santos-1-6-20-a-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-241808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Newly appointed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff, Lt. Gen. Felimon Santos Jr. delivers a speech in his first flag-raising ceremony as AFP chief at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Monday (Jan 6, 2020). (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; New Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Lt. Gen. Felimon Santos Jr. on Monday received his fourth star when he was promoted to the rank of General, the highest post in the Philippine military.<\/p>\n<p>Santos&#8217; fourth star was donned by the Department of National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana during short ceremonies at the DND Building in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>Present were his family and senior military officers led by AFP vice chief-of-staff Vice Admiral Gaudencio Collado Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Santos\u2019 ad interim appointment was approved by President Rodrigo Duterte effective January 14.<\/p>\n<p>He took over as 53rd AFP chief on January 4 replacing General Noel Clement who retired from the service after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.<\/p>\n<p>Santos is a member of the Philippine Military Academy 1986 while his predecessor was a member of PMA Class of 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Military honors at the General Headquarters Canopy was accorded to the newly-promoted general after the donning ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; New Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Lt. Gen. Felimon Santos Jr. on Monday received his fourth star &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":241808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243207","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\/243207","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=243207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243208,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243207\/revisions\/243208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}