The tragic death of UST ROTC cadet Mark Chua in 2001 signaled the decline of the country's citizen home defense program. Amidst the fury of the people on the senseless loss of life, lawmakers passed a compromise law that appeased the call for the abolition of ROTC but severely failed to account the need for a national self-defense force. The NSTP was born and implemented in 2003-2004 which revised the whole concept of citizen nation building into voluntary ROTC, Civil Welfare Training Service (CWTS), and Literacy Training Service. While these three components of NSTP are laudable, their implementation is poor. Dozens of disasters later, it is only the ROTC component that proved to be organized and reliable in responding to disasters and able to give a meaningful and relevant training for young men and women to become strong citizens of the Republic.
I have below just some of the pictures I took for the UPOTC. More pictures and description of UPROTC can be found here: http://www.uprotc.org/
I have below just some of the pictures I took for the UPOTC. More pictures and description of UPROTC can be found here: http://www.uprotc.org/