Inaasahan ang pagpalit ng PRO3 director?

Matagal na inaasahan ang gagawin major resuffle ni Chief PNP General Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar sa mga Police Regional Office director.

Ito ang napag-alaman ng intelligence officer (IO) ng Dateline na kung saan maaari nitong katapusan ng Hulyo ay mayroon mga Police Regional Director ang tatamaan ng major resuffle.

Sang-ayon sa IO, ang PRO3 director ay mabibilang umano sa masasama sa resuffle na gagawin ni Eleazar. Ang pagka-alam ng IO, nitong katapusan ng buwan ay inaasahan ng aakyat si Brig. Gen. Valeriano De Leon, PRO3 director at maaaring matalaga na sa National Police Headquarters sa Camp Crame.

Kung masasama sa resuffle si De Leon, iba naman ang kanyang magiging assignment at siya ay m at at al aga sa posisyon na pang Two Star, ayon sa IO.

Halos mag-iisang taon na si De Leon bilang PRO3 director kaya naman inaasahan na siya ay masasama sa resuffle, ayon pa sa IO.

Subali't hanggang kasalukuyan, wala pang nababalitaan ang Dateline kung sino ang maaaring pumalit kay De Leon.

Hindi kagaya noon, kapag papalitan na ang RD, mayroon na tatlo o dalawang Brig. Gen. ang matunog ang pangalan.

Bago naupo si De Leon sa PRO3, si Brig. Gen. Nievez ang matunog na papalit noon kay dating RD na si Brig. Gen. Sermonia.

Bakit kaya hanggang ngayon wala pang matunog na papalit kay De Leon? Nagtatanong lang po...

Traffic light sa harap ng Vista Mall dahilan ng trapik Napapansin ng mga motorista na dumadaan sa harapan ng Vista Mall sa Barangay San Agustin na nagiging dahilan ng grabeng trapik ang pagkakalagay ng traffic light ng Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH3).

Tuwing 8:00 am hanggang 9:00 am ay naka yellow light ang traffic light, subalit pagkatapos ng nasabing oras, gagana ang nasabing Traffic Light at doon nagkakaroon ng mahabang trapik.

Ang haba ng trapik ay simula sa Barangay San Isidro hanggang sa St. Jude Village.

Maging ang mga motorista papunta sa Angeles City ay naapektuhan din ng na trapik dahil lamang sa traffic light na nilagay sa harapan ng Vista Mall.

Sang-ayon sa mga nakausap ng Dateline, binibigyan lang ng prayoridad ang Vista Mall upang ang kanyang mga kliyente o kostumer ay makadaan o makapasok kaagad sa mall na 'no hassle.'

Mas maganda siguro kung tanggalin na lang ang traffic light sa harapan ng Vista Mall?

Hindi ba matanggal tanggal ng city government ito dahil DPWH ang nagtayo nito? Nagtatanong lang po ....

“THAT should be the last,” Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Cirilito Sobejana quoted President Rodirgo Duterte as saying following the crash of the C-130 that carried 96 passengers. Around 50 died, including three residents on ground, and injured 49 others. The aircraft came all the way from Villamor Air Base in Pasay, enroute to Lumbia airport, and flew to Jolo.

“We cannot afford to have a similar incident in the future,” the President reportedly said. The crashed aircraft was one of the two C-130 Hercules acquired this year through a grant from the US government. It arrived on Jan. 29, 2021 and joined the Philippine Air Force (PAF) fleet officially on Feb. 18. The Philippines shelled out P1.6 billion as counterpart of the US government’s P800 million. This utilitarian type aircraft— used for troops, medical evacuations and cargo transport— is a four-engine turboprop military vehicle designed originally by Lockheed, now

Lockheed Martin.

This recent accident is the third involving C-130’s in the Philippines. On Dec. 16, 1993, a PAF C-130 Hercules crashed into Mount Manase while on descent towards Naga Airport. On Aug. 25, 2008, another C-130, an L100-20, crashed into sea after it took off Davao City. Up to this day, the cause of the crash after it lost contact shortly after it took off had not been determined.

In this recent accident, the

black box had been found and there should be proper investigation soon following the period of national grief.

Initially, this is what Sobejana said as far as available details of the accident went: “One of our C-130s, while transporting our troops from Cagayan De Oro, na-miss nya ‘yung runway, trying to regain power, at hindi nakayanan, bumagsak doon sa may Barangay Bangkal, Patikul, Sulu (One of our C-130s, while transporting troops from Cagayan De Oro, missed the runway, tried to regain power but failed, and ended up crashing in Barangay Bangkal, Patikul, Sulu).

The C-130, heavily used during the US war in Korea and Vietnam, is one of the most sucessful designs in aviation history, built to transport troops in medium distances and is capable of landing even in austere fields.

The C-130 aircraft we’ve been buying are old, refurbished ones, and would require heavy maintenance and even more intense training for their custodians considering the potential odds and ends of old parts. Although retrofitted, these aircraft had gone beyond their supposed retirement age. Although, the C-130 has a record accident rate of “one per 250,000 flying hours over the last 40 years,” the UK Royal Air Force’s data reported. The figure means that the C-130 is one of the safest aircraft it operates.

As these old aircraft are used by our military, it may be important to ask how the maintenance requirements are being addressed— budget, expertise, training, etc. Aircraft maintenance procedures are reputedly more rigid than any other modes of transport ever invented. “This should be the last,” true, we have seen the tragic losses we have to deal with in the Patikul crash— the billions in taxpayers’money and, certainly, the lives of our soldiers.