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John Unson - Philstar.com
January 15, 2026 | 6:48pm
The new 44 Army lieutenants who reported to the headquarters of the Army's 10th Infantry Division in Mawab, Davao de Oro early this week were immediately assigned to different units of the division.
Philstar.com / John Unson
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The Philippine Army has assigned 44 new lieutenants to the 10th Infantry Division, to be mobilized for community projects meant to restore normalcy in areas its units had cleared from communist insurgents in recent months.
The 10th ID, under Major Gen. Alvin Luzon, has units in provinces and cities in Mindanao’s adjoining Regions 10, 11 and 13, where 1,459 members the now moribund New People’s Army had surrendered in batches and pledged allegiance to the government in the past six years through the joint backchannel intercession of military and police officials and local executives.
Luzon led the traditional military welcome ceremony for the 44 new Army lieutenants early this week at their headquarters in Camp General Manuel Yan Sr. in Barangay Tuboran in Mawab, Davao de Oro.
Luzon told reporters via text message on Thursday, January 15, that the neophyte male and female lieutenants shall be utilized for the humanitarian and other public service activities of their units in areas that soldiers and local government units have cleared from NPA presence in recent months.
“They shall also help reintegrate to the local communities the former members of the New People's Army who have availed of the government’s reconciliation program for them,” Luzon said.
The 10th ID deployed to far-flung areas just last December, for the same civil-military relations thrusts, 700 new members of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit trained by its Division Training School.
The newly-trained CAFGUs are now helping local government units rehabilitate the local communities that NPA had subjected before to forced taxation and its ruthless one-sided justice system that favored only its abusive members.
