Army chief Ortiz
visits 8ID units
By CMO Battalion, 8ID PA
September
8, 2011
CAMP LUKBAN,
Catbalogan, Samar – The Commanding General of the Philippine Army,
Lieutenant General Arturo B. Ortiz AFP arrived last Friday for a
three-day field visit of 8th Infantry (Stormtroopers) Division units.
This field visit of the Division is the second one so far for the year
2011.
Field visits of major
service commanders like the CGPA is usually performed to check not
only on the morale and welfare of the troops but also to size up their
capability of carrying out the Army’s mission. In these visits, it is
common for Commanders to tag along staff assistants who represent the
various functions of the Army in order to readily address specific
troop concerns.
Being the host
commander in the region, MGen Mario F Chan AFP, the 8ID Commander,
briefed LtGen Ortiz of updates in his Division’s support to “winning
the peace” in Eastern Visayas. In acknowledgement of the
accomplishments, the CGPA recognized outstanding personnel and units
in the visited sites.
The CGPA’s visit of
Eastern Visayas has always been special. It was in this region
particularly in Leyte Island that Lieutenant General Ortiz could
recall fond memories of his early years in the Army. Each time he
comes for a visit, he never fails to meet the families who once hosted
him as a young officer.
