{"id":84773,"date":"2017-01-11T22:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T03:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84773"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:09:21","slug":"majority-of-10000-new-troops-to-be-allocated-to-army-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/11\/majority-of-10000-new-troops-to-be-allocated-to-army-afp\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of 10,000 new troops to be allocated to Army \u2013AFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84786\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10945530_10153025018473766_3393297630233857540_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84786\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10945530_10153025018473766_3393297630233857540_n.jpg\" alt=\" Majority of the 10,000 additional troops which the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) (Pictured) is now authorized to recruit will be given to the Army.\" width=\"960\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10945530_10153025018473766_3393297630233857540_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10945530_10153025018473766_3393297630233857540_n-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10945530_10153025018473766_3393297630233857540_n-768x593.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majority of the 10,000 additional troops which the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) (Pictured) is now authorized to recruit will be given to the Army.( Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/armedforcesofthephilippines\">Armed Forces of The Philippines\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013Majority of the 10,000 additional troops which the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is now authorized to recruit will be given to the Army.<\/p>\n<p>This was stressed by AFP public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo in a briefing Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 10,000 additional troops, 8,000 will be allocated to the Army while the remaining 2,000 will be divided evenly between the Air Force and Navy.<\/p>\n<p>He also clarified that the additional soldiers will be used to bring to bring up to strength undermanned units.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These new troops will be used to reinforce under strength units. We will not be raising any new divisions or battalions despite being allowed to recruit 10,000 more soldiers,&#8221; Arevalo said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>He also clarified that the additional 10,000 troops have been long requested by the AFP but was only granted by the incumbent Chief Executive.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the AFP numbers around 125,000 troops with an 85,000 allocated to the Army and remaining 45,000 split between the Air Force and Navy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These additional troops are needed for our various security engagements,&#8221; Arevalo when asked on the reason for the new troopers when the government is now engaged on peace talks with various separatist groups.<\/p>\n<p>By security engagements, the AFP official is referring to the Abu Sayyaf, Maute Group and other lawless elements.<\/p>\n<p>Besides this, new soldiers are needed to man the brand-new equipment and platforms now being acquired by the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>He added that recruitment of these new troopers is already accompanied by a budget allocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Majority of the 10,000 additional troops which the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is now authorized to recruit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[3244,13339],"class_list":["post-84773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","tag-edgard-arevalo","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84773","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=84773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}