George S. Patton
Ex-defense chief hits Arroyo for failure to upgrade AFP equipment
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 09/13/2008 1:34 PM
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/09/13/08/ex-defense-chief-hits-arroyo-failure-upgrade-afp-equipment
The Arroyo government has failed to release badly-needed funds the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) needs to buy equipment it needs to effectively protect civilian communities in Mindanao, according to a former defense secretary. In an interview by Ricky Carandang on ANC's The Big Picture, former Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz said the AFP lacks essential equipment that would raise its capability to protect civilian communities in the south. "It’s very clear that they need an additional funding to purchase mission-essential equipment. They lack mobility," Cruz said.
no shit! talagang kailangan nila
Among the urgent equipment the AFP needs, Cruz said, are trucks to transport soldiers, C-130 planes, helicopters, bullets, and hand-held radios. “For instance, they are short of about 5,000 trucks in the AFP. On top of that, you need medium-lift vessels. We had only two C-130s and now, it’s down to just one,” he said.
Gezas!!! one C-130 transport plane! Mag cecebu pacific na lang ang mga sundalo natin kung pupunta ng mindanao.
As a result, Cruz said the AFP's equipment readiness rate is "just on the border line of passing." "Our estimate before was, we need P10 billion for mission-essential equipment, for six years, in order to raise the readiness rate of our equipment from 45% to 70%. The passing is 50%," he said. "So we’re just on the border line of passing. So we have to raise it to 70% so that our AFP can be effective in protecting our civilian communities in Mindanao," he added.
"The expectations are high, the demands are very high on them to protect these communities. They will be spread out, they need mobility, they need firepower. They lack helicopters, they lack airplanes, bullets, trucks, hand-held radios. At that time when I was still at DND, they still lacked 12,000 hand-held radios," Cruz said.
Binigyan tayo ng US ng Huey helicopters a few years back. ok naman ang Huey kahit luma na. yung binigay ni uncle sam eh ginawa noong early 1980's. itsura pa lang alam ko na early 1980's silang ginawa. hindi naman sila vietnam 1960's model. my friend in the PAF told me na top condition pa yung mga Hueys.
nagamit ba kaagad ng mga sundalo natin? hindi. yung first three helos according to my friend sa PAF were converted to presidential choppers. ayos ba!? first "combat mission" of those choppers? rescuing udong mahusay... remember him?
mukha siyang bakla
He said the AFP needs P10 billion yearly to be able to purchase these equipment, but the Arroyo government has failed to release the money even if the item has been appropriated in the budget. "My frustration then was, the money was not being released. It was in the AFP budget, it was approved by the Office of the President. We had completed the circular of requirements, it could already be bidded out but no money was released,” he said.
binulsa na ng mga trapo at corrupt dyan sa gobyerno
“So I pity the soldiers. We assign them a big task, run after the rogue MILF commanders, protect the community in Mindanao.” He said the Arroyo government could easily have funded these items in the budget with the expansion of the Value-Added Tax from 10% to 12% and other tax measures passed.
kawawa talaga. tapos itong si gloria pa trip trip lang sa iba't ibang lugar sa pilipinas. papunta punta sa mga beaches...you bitch!
tapos mga sundalo natin hindi ma medivac
But the government still failed to release the funds. “In fact, with the increased collection of VAT, when we were collecting the 12% VAT, the price of oil was $30 or $40 a barrel, then it went up to $100 a barrel, that’s a lot of extra revenue of government,” Cruz said. He said the P10 billion is again part of the P1.4 trillion budget for 2009, so it's just a matter of releasing the money. “I was able to talk to [DND Secretary] Gilbert Teodoro at the US embassy, and he’s continuing it, this capability upgrade plan. But it appears the money isn’t being released,” he said. "In light of the hostilities in Mindanao, it’s so urgent to release funds for the AFP so they can buy mission-essential equipment," Cruz said.
forget about it Mr Cruz. malapit na ang election. gagamit na yung pera na yon sa kampanya, pambili ng boto at pandaraya.
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