THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
I 
First Regular Session 
f 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 
4 
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 count~y 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 further 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 th~s 
bill is earnestly requested. 
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THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC 1 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
1 
First Regular Session 
1 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 
Introduced by SENATOR LACS0 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING THE PHILIPPINE AIR FORCE ACADEMU (PAFA) AND 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THERIEFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress Assem bled: 
SEC 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. 
SEC2. 
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. 
SEC 3. 
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 OEcers of the Air 
Force. 
b) 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. 


c) 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 New 
Armed Forces of the Philippines may prescribe upon all cadets who may 
hereafter satisfactorily complete the approved course of studies. 
SEC 4. 
Department Title and Faculty - The Chief of Staff of the Armed 
Forces of the Philippines may prescribe the title of each of the 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. 
SEC 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 of four 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: 
1) 
Two (2) cadets from each Congressional District nominated by the 
Congressional Representative of the District; and 
Eighty (80) cadets fi-om 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 
Armed Forces shall automatically qua1iQ for admission. 
2) 


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. 
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. 
Four (4) years from the approval of this Act, women shall be admitted and shall 
comprise not less than five percent (5 %) of the strength of the Cadet Corps at any time. 
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. 
SEC 6. 
must be: 
1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
Eligibility for Admission - To be eligible for admission, a candidate 
Single and must never have been married; 
A natural born citizen of the Philippines; 
At least seventeen (1 7) years of age but not more than twenty two (22) 
years of age on the first day of April of the year of admission; 
At least high school graduate; 


5) 
A successfbl examinee of the prescribed physical and mental 
examination; and 
A successfbl examinee of the National Secondary Assessment Test. 
6) 
SEC 7. 
Pay and Allowances - The pay and allowances of the Cadets of the 
Academy shall be fixed by the President, 
SEC 8. 
Undertaking - Each cadet shall sign an agreement that unless 
sooner separated by duly authorized, authority, he shall 
1) 
2) 
Complete the course of instruction at the Academy; 
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. 
SEC 9. 
Cadet requirement - Any Cadet who shall afier 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. 
SEC 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. 
SEC 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. 
SEC 12. 
Transfer of Assets and Liabilities - The Philippine 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. 
SEC 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. 
SEC 14. Eflectivzty - This Act 
shall take effect upon approval. 
Approved,