Proposed amendments: Further strengthening professionalism in or unsettling the AFP?

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Since Dec. 21, 1935 after the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) was established by virtue of the National Defense Act of 1935 to date, there had been 58 chiefs of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines or AFP (CSAFP) — 59 since Gen. Andres Centino was appointed twice. General and former senator Rodolfo Biazon served the shortest stint having been in the CSAFP post for only 78 days during the presidency of Corazon Aquino. Gen. Benjamin Defensor Jr. was CSAFP for 79 days during the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, while Gen. Noel Clement served for only 102 days under President Rodrigo Duterte. While Arroyo in her nine years in the presidency had 11 CSAFPs and President Benigno Aquino 3rd during his term appointed seven, not one commander in chief beats Duterte. He has appointed 11 CSAFPs during his term as president. A total of 38 regular CSAFPs, two acting CSAFPs and one reappointed since the Aquino presidency. Thus, Republic Act (RA) 11709 was enacted to "obviate revolving-door accommodation promotions" among CSAFPs and which is supposed to be the main meat of this piece of legislation, until it tinkered with the compulsory retirement age of officers, tenure-in-grade and the promotion of senior officers, among others.