245 Candidate Soldiers Undergo Military Training

At least 245 candidate soldiers from various parts of Cagayan Valley and Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) are now undergoing military training.

Capt. Jefferson Somera, public affairs chief of the 5th Infantry Division, said the trainees,  after passing all the requirements in the recruitment process such as the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Service Aptitude Test, physical and medical examinations, among others, will undertake a rigid four-month military training.

Somera said the training aims to provide the candidate soldiers the strength and discipline befitting a soldier and to transform them into fighters that can defend the country.

He said the candidate soldiers are composed of 73 college graduates, five of whom are board passers, 43 college levels and 129 high school graduates.

Somera hopes that all of the 245-strong candidate soldiers will be able to finish their training courses so that they will be deployed in various military units of the Philippine Army. (ALM/MGE – PIA-2/Isabela)