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The escalation of China’s provocative actions at the West Philippine Sea has prompted a congressman to call for the Senate’s passage of a bill reviving the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps curriculum as mandatory for all Filipino college students.
Villafuerte was one of the lead authors of the House-approved bill restoring ROTC in higher education institutions and technical-vocational institutions. The ROTC has been renamed the National Citizens Service Training Program under the House-approved Substitute Bill 6687. Under the measure, those completing the NCST program will be deemed national service reservists and Armed Forces of the Philippines reservists who will make up the proposed National Service Reserve Corps .
To be civilian in nature, the proposed reserve corps will be a source for volunteers and conscripts in times of national or local exigencies such as calamities, disasters or armed conflicts to perform non-combat and non-military duties and services as the President or local councils may deem necessary.
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