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(File photo) MANILA - Some senators are determined to revive the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program as a mandatory subject for Filipino students. Reviving the ROTC, Senator Francis Tolentino said on Thursday, would instill discipline, a sense of leadership, teamwork, and patriotism among the youth. "Notably, the program would be conducted during the youths' formative years, thus, molding them at a prime age to be nationalistic citizens prepared to uphold the Philippine Constitution," Tolentino said in his Manila Bulletin column. He said this would be also very helpful in the government's campaign for disaster response preparedness and would play a significant role in times of calamities and disaster relief operations. Tolentino, a Brigadier General of the Philippine Army Reserve, cited a provision under the 1987 Constitution saying, "The prime duty of the government is to serve and protect the people. The government may call upon the people to de ....

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