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The document discusses the legal basis for mandatory Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) in Philippine colleges and universities. It cites sections from the 1987 Constitution, Republic Act No. 7077, Commonwealth Act No. 1, and Presidential Decree No. 1706 that require military training for students and establish ROTC units at educational institutions to produce enlisted and officer reservists. The training is meant to qualify students for commissions in the armed forces reserve.

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Preamble

The document discusses the legal basis for mandatory Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) in Philippine colleges and universities. It cites sections from the 1987 Constitution, Republic Act No. 7077, Commonwealth Act No. 1, and Presidential Decree No. 1706 that require military training for students and establish ROTC units at educational institutions to produce enlisted and officer reservists. The training is meant to qualify students for commissions in the armed forces reserve.

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Evin Jhoerelle C.

Halon
Ba 1-10

Preamble
We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and
humane society and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the
common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the
blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom,
love, equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.

Sections 38 and 39 of Republic Act No.7077


SECTION 38. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). – Military training for students enrolled in
colleges, universities and similar institutions of learning is mandatory pursuant to the provisions of the
National Defense Act and the 1987 Constitution. 

SECTION 39. Establishment of ROTC Units in Schools. – At such colleges, universities and similar
institutions of learning that request for the conduct of military training in their institutions, there shall be
established and maintained Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units as the Secretary of National Defense
may approve, which shall conduct military training for the students of such institutions for the purpose of
producing enlisted and officers reservists. The program of institution shall be prescribed by the Secretary
of National Defense and may include instruction to prepare female students for military service: Provided,
That such course of instruction shall not exceed two (2) academics years in the case of enlisted reservist,
and four (4) academic years in the case of officer reservists which shall include as necessary summer
probationary training of not more than sixty (60) consecutive days. The first two (2) years of training,
which is mandatory, shall hereafter be referred to as basis ROTC while the second two (2) years after said
basic ROTC, which is voluntary, shall hereafter be referred to as advance ROTC. The allocation of ROTC
units to the various major services of the AFP shall conform to the projected manpower needs of their
respective reserve components. 
Evin Jhoerelle C. Halon
Ba 1-10

Section 35 of Commonwealth Act. No. 1


Section 35. At such colleges and universities as the President may designate there shall be established and
maintained Reserve Officers' Training Units of such arms and services as he shall specify, where every
physically fit student shall be required to pursue a course of military instruction designed to qualify him
for a commission as a third lieutenant66 of the Reserve. In so far as may be practicable, the student shall
be permitted to choose the arm or service in which he wishes to train. This course of military instruction,
if pursued to completion, shall exempt students from trainee instruction. It shall not exempt them from
registration.

Section 2 & 3 of Presidential Decree No. 1706


Section 2. National service shall be obligatory for all citizens of the Philippines. As used in this decree,
"National service" shall consist of three main programs namely: civic welfare service, law enforcement
service; and military service.

Section 3. Each citizen shall render national service in any of the three main programs stated in Section 2
of this decree or a combination thereof: Provided, That such service shall be credited in his favor for the
purpose of fulfilling educational requirements established by law.

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