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Military Reform – 1999

Ferrer reports of a third batch named Alpha that consists of 1,506 MNLF members which passed the physical examination, and a third batch (Bravo) that consists of 1,036 soldiers, 50 officers, and 250 auxiliary service troops to start training in November (1999).¹

Villanueva and Aguilar report that as of September 1999, a total of 4,850 MNLF members had graduated and had been integrated into the AFP: 160 as 2nd Lieutenants and 4,690 at the rank of private. This number comes very close to the sum of Ferrer’s batch one, two, and three (1,211+1,854 = 4,571).²

1. Miriam Coronel Ferrer, “Integration of MNLF Forces into the PNP and AFP.”
2. Cesar Villanueva and George Aguilar, “The Reintegration of the Moro National Liberation Front in Mindanao,” Centre for International Cooperation and Security (University of Bradford, 2008).