WHEREAS, the basic subsistence allowance for each officer
and enlisted personnel as provided for in paragraph 7, Armed Forces of
the Philippines, Special Provisions, Presidential Decree No. 233,
General Appropriations FY 73-74, shall be five pesos (P5.00);
WHEREAS, General Order No. 14, dated October 3, 1972, was
adopted authorizing an additional daily subsistence allowance for all
enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and trainees
undergoing military training pursuant to Republic Act No. 4091, who are
attached to a regular unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
engaged in combat operations;
WHEREAS, the basic daily subsistence allowance currently
authorized to each officer and enlisted personnel, including cadets and
trainees is not adequate to meet the prevailing cost of prime
commodities; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide nutrition for the
officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in order to keep
and maintain at high level their physical fitness and efficiency in
carrying a great share of the grave burden of suppressing the activities
of a group of men actively engaged in a criminal conspiracy to seize
political and state power in the Philippines, and/or eradicating
lawlessness, anarchy, disorder and wanton destruction of lives and
property in the country;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, General
Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, and Proclamation No. 1104, dated
January 17, 1973, do hereby authorize and prescribe the basic daily
subsistence allowance of not less than six pesos (P6.00) for each
officer and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines:
Provided, That cadets of the PMA and PAFFS; trainees undergoing military
training pursuant to Republic Act No. 4091; Probationary Second
Lieutenants/Ensigns, ROTC Cadets on Summer Camp Training, reserve
officers and enlisted reservists undergoing training or
assembly/mobilization tests shall be entitled to the same basic daily
subsistence allowance authorized to members of the Regular Force while
on such training: Provided, further, That additional subsistence
allowance shall be paid to officers, enlisted personnel, Probationary
Second Lieutenants/Ensigns, draftees and trainees on duty at AFP Long
Lines relay sites, Air Defense Alert Centers, Air Rescue Alert Centers,
Military Sealift and Terminal Command and other alert centers, isolated
stations/sites/areas where personnel are on twenty-four-hour alert
status, that may be declared by the Chief of Staff, AFP at rates not to
exceed P1 .00 per day, and to PN officers, Probationary Ensigns, and
enlisted personnel when on sea duty at the rates of P2.00 per day for
officers, P1.00 per day for enlisted personnel, draftees and 20-year-old
trainees.
This Decree shall take effect as of January 1, 1974.
All
provisions of existing laws and decrees in conflict with this Decree are
hereby repealed.
Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of February, in the
year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary