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THE Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA) will fully support the recommendation to make Filipino seafarers military reservists. In an interview on Special on Saturday, an online televised program of DZRH News, PMMA superintendent Commodore Joel Abutal replied an “absolute yes” to the proposal for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to issue an executive order automatically classifying the country’s 400,000 active seafarers as military reservists. The proposal was raised by former Defense secretary Norberto Gonzales during the National Defense College of the Philippines Alumni Association Inc. Annual Defense Forum where he mentioned that an executive order, and eventually a law, could formally…
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