A day after his 30th birthday, Patrolman Regim Lachica Gacod of the 7th Special Action Force perished in a gunfight between government forces and armed men in Barangay Bualo Lipid, Maimbung, Sulu on June 24. Gacod of Kapangan, Benguet and San Gabriel, La Union, was deployed with his team in a joint operation with the