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Gibo wants BCDA scrapped, AFP to keep remaining assets
Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. opposes the conversion of other military bases in the Philippines, calling the model a failure.
Teodoro stated that converting military bases is an injustice not only to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) but also to the Filipino people.
He explained that the assets removed from the AFP during these conversions were strategic and often irreplaceable.
The Defense Secretary emphasized that replicating these lost bases would require immense financial resources, potentially trillions of pesos, and some assets are simply unique.
Teodoro's remarks were made during the closing ceremony of the AFP Joint Exercise (AJEX) "DAGIT-PA".
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