AFP at the cusp of trial and error

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REPUBLIC Act 11939, the new law amending RA 11709, went through the crucible before it was signed by the President. Since both chambers of Congress want to have a claim to fame in rectifying the flawed provisions of RA 11709 that they passed, a bicameral conference committee had to harmonize the two versions of the bills each house has passed. Resource persons from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) were again summoned to help legislators strike a "happy compromise" between what will be acceptable to the military and what the legislators are willing to adopt.