Pma cadet cudia biography

I will presume that readers know generally about the case of Cadet First Class Aldrin Jeff Cudia and probably have an opinion about the Philippine Military Academy&#;s endorsement of the student Honor Committee&#;s dismissal of Cadet Cudia from the school for a violation of honor, to wit, lying about why he was late for a class.

The dismissal has provoked a lot of public outrage for the severity of the punishment doled out to a student set to graduate near the top of his class. It has also provoked a great deal of determination among military people to defend strict rules of honor because, on the battle field, honor and time down to the second are life and death matters.

The circumstances of what happened to make Cadet Cudia late are confusing and arguable. So everyone is arguing them.

Arguing the details is not the purpose of this blog. The purpose of this blog is to propose that honor can be defined more than one way. The Filipino military way is by the book. I suggest there is another way, and it is much more important to the winning of battles than a by-the-book interpretation of honor.

• honor (noun): high respect; esteem.  Synonyms: distinction, glory, kudos, prestige

In the military, the term &#;honor&#; is often used to reflect bravery under fire, thus the awarding of a &#;medal of honor&#; to those who do distinctive things on the battlefield. In a school setting, it is used to express an understood, fully committed, disciplined obedience to the rules. I suppose it could be looked at as a proxy of a cadet&#;s courage and discipline under fire. A cadet is required to state an oath that he will obey the rules and the failure to do so is considered a LACK of honor.

It was determined by the PMA Student Honor Board that Cadet Cudia was lacking the high degree of honor that is needed to be a qualified military leader in

If a “little lie” by a cadet cost his dream of becoming a soldier, then there is no reason to allow the burial of a dictator like Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB), an official said.

National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) chairperson Prof. Maria Serena Diokno said opposition to the burial of the late dictator at the hero’s cemetery in Taguig City must continue because the interment in LNMB revises the country’s history and sends the wrong message to the youth.

Diokno’s agency earlier conducted a comprehensive study tackling the lies made by the late strongman about his military records in the United States.

“Sa US archives, ang daming pagsisinungaling. Mismong yung ranggo niya nag-sinungaling siya,” Diokno told dzMM.

“Ang pinakita namin, ganon bang record na iyon ang bibigyan niyo ng karangalan at kahit mismong bilang sundalo ililibing niyo sa Libingan?”

(In the US archives, there are a lot of lies. He even lied about his rank&#; What we showed, is that the kind of record that you want to honor as a soldier at the LBNM?)

Diokno then pointed out the case of Aldrin Cudia, who was expelled from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) after violating the Honor Code for lying about the reason for his tardiness in one of his classes.

Cudia’s case reached the Supreme Court, which later sided with the PMA. This ended his dream of becoming a soldier.

Diokno said it baffles her that the high court did not let pass Cudia’s “little lie” but was too liberal in siding with President Rodrigo Duterte, who allowed the dictator’s burial in hallowed grounds despite the numerous atrocities during his year rule.

“Nung panahon ni PNoy (then president Benigno Aquino III), iisang estudyante sa PMA na nagsinungaling dahil late sa class — maliit na pagsisinungaling lang iyon kung tutuusin — tapos nag-appeal at nasa SC at sinust