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Senate Bill No. 254
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JUL-8 P2 -07
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Introduced by SENATOR LACSON
AN ACT
ESTABLISHING THE PHILIPPINE AIR FORCE ACADEMY (PAFA) 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The improvement of the Philippine Air Force’s (PAF) regular officer 
delivery system has been an impending need of the military establishment.
The PAF Flying Schools (PAFFS), which is at present the main source of 
regular officers in the PAF, could no longer provide the required number and 
proper training of officer pilots because of inadequate facilities and logistical 
support.
More so, since a college degree is an academic requirement for entrance 
into the PAFFS, thousands of poor high school graduates with great potentials are 
denied from joining the PAF because they have no financial support for a college 
education.
The creation of the Philippine Air Force Academy (PAFA) shall address 
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 ensure that our systems do not espouse an unwanted 
relationship among officers often called "regular officer homogeneity". Concerned 
sectors believed that this "officer homogeneity" may endanger a potentially 
explosive political situation where all the branches and levels of the Armed Forces 
are controlled by a regular-officer school. The creation of the PAF will help 
preclude this situation.
There is also a need to professionalize other officer career areas of the Air 
Force such as the aircraft maintenance, avionics and air logistics to further


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 these foregoing reasons, the approval of this bill is earnestly requested.
PANFI
LACSON 
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EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC } 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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First Regular Session 
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SENATE
Senate Bill No. 254
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JUL-8 P2-07
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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:
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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.
SECTION 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:
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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.
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.


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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 
Armed Forces of the Philippines may prescribe upon all cadets who may 
hereafter satisfactorily complete the approved course of studies.
SECTION ^.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.
SECTION S.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 as may be determined by the Academic Board.
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.
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; 
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6) A successful examinee of the National Secondary Assessment Test.


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SECTION l.Pay and Allowances - The pay and allowances of the Cadets of 
the Academy shall be fixed by the President.
SECTION ^.Undertaking - Each cadet shall sign an agreement that unless 
sooner separated by duly authorized, authority, he shall
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Complete the course of instruction at the Academy;
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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 
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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 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.
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,