FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC } 
1 
7' JUN 30 i74 :i% 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
1 
Introduced by SENATOR PANFILO M. LACSON 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The improvement of the regular officer delivery system of the Philippine Air 
Force (PAF) has a long - left need in the military establishment. 
The PAF Flying Schools (PAFFS) which is at present, the main source of 
regular officers in the PAF can no longer cope with the required number and proper 
training of officer pilots for the PAF because of inadequate facilities and logistical 
support. Additionally, since a college degree is an academic requirement for entrance 
into the PAFFS, thousands of our gifted high school graduates are denied the 
opportunity of serving our country through the PAF simply because they are unable to 
obtain financial support for a college education. 
The creation of the Philippine Air Force Academy (PAFA) is a response to this 
problem in line with the constitutional mandate of guaranteeing equal access of 
opportunity for public service. 
Given the inherent political instability of a developing country such as the 
Philippines, we should see to it that an unwanted relationship among officers often 
called "regular officer homogeneity" is not created. Concerned sectors believed that 
this "officer homogeneity" may endanger a potentially explosive political situation 
where an Armed Forces is controlled in all its branches, and at all levels, by regular 
officer school. The creation of the PAF academy will help preclude this situation. 
There is also a need to professionalize the other Air Force officer career areas 
like aircraft maintenance, avionics and air logistics to Iiurther enhance the efficiency 
and effectiveness of the PAF. These highly specialized career fields cannot be 
adequately addressed by a traditional military academy like the Philippine Military 
Academy. 
The PAF Academy as conceptualized, is geared towards making available an 
adequate and dedicated corps of professional Air Force officers with the proper 
education, training and orientation to lead and manage the complex technologies 
inherent in the field of aviation. 
For this foregoing reasons, the approval of this bill is earnestly requested. 
Senator 


FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC } 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
1 
First Regular Session 
1 
Introduced by SENATOR LACSON 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING THE PHILIPPINE AIR FORCE ACADEMY (PAFA) AND 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress Assembled: 
SECTION 1. Philippine Air Force Academy - There shall be established in the 
Philippine Air Force an educational institution to be known as the Philippine Air Force 
Academy (PAFA), hereinafter referred to as the Academy, for the instruction and preparation 
for military service of Air Force Cadets. 
SECTION 2 Administration - The academy as herein established shall be organized 
and administered by the Commanding General Philippine Air Force (PAF) under the general 
supervision and control of the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. 
SECTION3. Academic Board - The Academic Board of the Academy shall be 
composed of the Superintendent, the Dean of the Corps of Professors, the Commandant of 
Cadets and the Heads of the departments to be constituted as follows: 
a) 
The Superintendent and the Commandant of Cadets of the Academy shall be 
detailed to those positions by the President from the Officers of the Air Force. 
The Dean of the Corps of Professors shall be appointed from the permanent 
professors who have served as heads of departments of instructions at the 
Academy. 
The Academic Board shall have the power to confer the degree of Bachelor of 
Science under the rules and regulations as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces 
b) 
c) 


of the Philippines may prescribe upon all cadets who may hereafter satisfactorily 
complete the approved course of studies. 
SECTION4. Department Title and Faculty - The Chief of Staff of the Armed 
Forces of the Philippines may prescribe the title of each ofthe departments of instruction and 
professors of the Academy. However, each change of the title of the department or professor 
shall not affect the status, rank or eligibility for promotion or retirement of, or otherwise 
prejudice, a professor of the Academy. 
SECTION 5. Cadet Corps of the Philippine Air Force - The student body of the 
Academy shall be known as the Cadet Corps of the Philippine Air Force (CCPAF). The 
president is authorized to appoint annually, subject to such physical and mental examinations 
as may be prescribed, the number of cadets necessary to maintain the Cadet Corps at a 
strength offour hundred (400) and not exceed four hundred eighty (480) at any one time. 
The strength of the Cadet Corps of the Philippine Air Force is as follows: 
I) 
Two (2) cadets from each Congressional District nominated by the 
Congressional Representative of the District; and 
Eighty (80) cadets from the Philippines at large which shall be composed of: 
a) Twenty (20) selected in order of merit, as established by competitive 
examination from the children of members of the Armed Forces who were 
killed in action or died of wounds or injuries received or diseases contacted 
in or pre - existing injury or disease aggravated by active service; Provided, 
that children of members by the Armed Forces who were awarded the 
Medal of Valor for an act performed while in the Aimed Forces shall 
automatically qualify for admission. 
For the purpose of this Act, a determination by the Line of Duty Board of 
the major service connected is binding upon the Secretary of the National 
Defense. 
2) 
b) Forty (40) from the enlisted members of the Armed Forces, twenty (20) 
from the regular Armed Forces and twenty (20) from the reserve 
component of the Armed Forces. The Secretary of the National Defense 


shall prescribe regulations for the selection of candidates under this 
subsection. 
c) Twenty (20) from cultural communities as may be selected by the 
President. 
The Academy shall provide for educational and physical facilities for the recruitment 
and training of women as member of Cadet Corps. 
All cadets shall be appointed by the President. An appointment is conditional until the 
cadet is admitted. 
If it is to be determined that, upon the admission of the class to the Academy, the 
number of cadets at the Academy will be below the authorized number, the Chief of Staff may 
nominate, as may be qualified, alternates and other qualified candidates who competed for 
nomination and are recommended and found qualified by the faculty as are necessary to meet 
the need of the Air Force, but not more than the authorized strength of the Cadet Corps. 
SECTION 6. Eligibility for Admission - To be eligible for admission, a candidate 
must be: 
1) Single 
2) A natural born citizen of the Philippines; 
3) At least seventeen (17) years of age but not more than twenty two (22) years of 
age on the first day of April of the year of admission; 
4) At least high school graduate; 
5) A successful examinee of the prescribed physical and mental examination; and 
6) A successful examinee of the National Secondary Assessment Test. 
SECTION 7. Pay and Allowances - The pay and allowances of the Cadets of the 
Academy shall be fixed by the President. 
SECTION 8. Undertaking - Each cadet shall sign an agreement that unless sooner 
separated by duly authorized, authority, he shall 
1) 
Complete the come of instruction at the Academy; 


2) 
Accept an appointment and serve as a commissioned officer of the Armed 
Forces of the Philippines for at least eight years immediately after graduation from the 
Academy. 
SECTION 9. Cadet requirement - Any Cadet who shall after entrance to the 
Academy and before completion of the prescribed courses of training, be found physically 
and mentally unfit for military assignment by reason of injury or disease incident to the 
service, shall be retired with the rank of second lieutenant of the Armed Forces of the 
Philippines. 
SECTION 10. Prohibition Against Hazing - Subject to the approval of the Secretary 
of the National Defense, the Superintendent of the Academy shall issue rules and regulations 
preventing hazing and prescribe dismissal suspension and other adequate punishment for 
violation thereof. 
For the purpose of this Act "hazing" means any unauthorized assumption of authority 
by a cadet whereby another cadet suffers or is exposed to any form of injury, indignity, 
humiliation, hardship or oppression or the deprivation or abridgement of any right. 
If a cadet is charged with violating any rule or regulation issued pursuant to this 
section, the penalty of which is dismissal from the Academy, a request in writing for a trial by 
a general court martial may be submitted. 
A cadet dismissed from the Academy for hazing shall not be reappointed as an Air 
Force Cadet and shall be ineligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in the Armed 
Forces of the Philippines unit after two (2) years from the graduation of the class. 
SECTION 11. 
Commission - Upon satisfactory completion of the course of 
instruction at the Academy, the Cadets shall be commissioned second lieutenants in the 
regular force of the Philippine Air Force with the relative rank in the order of final general 
standing as determined by the Academic Board of the Academy and approved by the Chief of 
Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. 


SECTION 12. Transfer of Assets and Licibilities - The PhiIippine Air Force Flying 
School, including the members of its faculty and personnel, its records, equipment, assets and 
liabilities are hereby transferred to and integrated with the Philippine Air Force Academy. 
SECTION 13. Budget - The initial appropriations necessary for the establishment of 
the Academy shall be charged to the appropriation of the Department of National Defense. 
Thereafter, the amount necessary for the improvement, operation and maintenance of the 
Academy shall be included in the Annual General Appropriations Act. 
SECTION 14. Effectivity - This Act shall take effect upon approval. 
Approved,