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Officers and gentlemen! HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/09/2011

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Officers and gentlemen!

HE SAYS
Aldrin Cardon
03/09/2011
Courage. Loyalty. Integrity.
And when they forget all these, they either get rich or they develop amnesia.
A wayward few develop suicidal tendencies, but that’s too punk for a PMA graduate.
They did not start that way. The crooks developed their crookedness along the way.

And there are many forms that make one mark his career with bends — some small, others wide. The higher the position he gets, the greater the degree of his dishonesty.

He becomes unscrupulous, his ways fraudulent. He becomes a crook.

It was not too much for President Aquino to ask the first batch of PMAers to graduate from their courses under a P-Noy leadership to stay clean.

That is all he can do, especially when the Armed Forces of the Philippines is under tremendous scrutiny after revelations of cases of stolen money by the millions of pesos while junior officers rebel against an old, problematic system and get punished for it..... MORE

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