Talk:University of the Philippines ROTC

Silvino M. Gallardo

Silvino Gallardo was a Filipino who served in the American colonial military and is noteworthy for having been the first military instructor of the American colonial college, the University of the Philippines.

Early life and education

Gallardo was born in Tanay, Morong, on 17 February 1887. He belonged to the first group of American colonial subjects sent to the United States in 1903 as scholars of the colonial government. Known as pensionados, they attended various colleges. Gallardo initially lived in the home of a Mrs H. H. Arnold in Hueneme, Ventura County, California from 1903 through 1904 with three other Filipino scholars. All four, who were the first known Filipinos to live in this part of America, were assigned to Charles F. Blackstock, a local high school principal. Gallardo then attended a defunct business school in Illinois, Dixon College, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in accounting. He also attended the DeKalb Normal School and the University of Illinois at Champaign, a land-grant college where military training was compulsory. In the last institution, which he attended from 1906 through 1907, he pursued special studies in commerce at its liberal arts college. He also served as a freshman private in Company M of the University Regiment and was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club. A fellow scholar, José G. Sanvictores, who had also been in Hueneme in 1903 and also attended the University of Illinois from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree, became the sergeant major of the First Battalion of the Cadet Regiment and was awarded the Hazelton Prize for competitive drill. He also joined a number of college clubs. Returning to the Philippines, he became a colonial government clerk and lived in Pasig, Rizal. Around the World War I period, he was a captain in the American militia in the Philippines. By the late 1910s Sanvictores was an assistant director of agriculture. He would later represent the Fourth District of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu during the Eighth Philippine Legislature, and during World War II he served the Philippine government as the Food Administrator and was the founder of Bigasan ng Bayan.

Career

In 1912, the year compulsory military training began at the University of the Philippines, Silvino Gallardo became that institution's first military instructor. The following year Gallardo entered the officer training unit of the American colonial gendarmerie, the Constabulary School, and was replaced by Juan P. Villasanta as U.P. military instructor. Gallardo was appointed third lieutenant on 22 July 1913 and graduated on 31 October 1913. On 11 February 1915 he was promoted to second lieutenant, and on 16 May 1917 to first lieutenant. On 23 August 1918 he became a captain, and was later awarded the Victory Medal. In 1919 he was again the instructor in military science at U.P. In 1921 Captain Gallardo had two assistant instructors:

1. Capt. Juan Villasanta, Air Service, Philippine National Guard. Villasanta, who had earlier been a military instructor at U.P., had later joined a unit which was the air arm of the American militia in the Philippines. Villasanta was a member of the first class of Filipino military aviators, which numbered twenty-five. These pilots were trained at the Curtiss School of Aviation at the PNG's Camp Claudio at Parañaque in 1918. In 1936, Captain Villasanta, by this time a reservist of the American colonial army, was assigned to Camp Henry T. Allen near Baguio as the tactical officer of Company "B" of the first graduating class of the Reserve Officer Service School. At the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 Major Villasanta was the commander of the Second Battalion of the Thirty-second Infantry Regiment of the Thirty-first Division, a unit which would fight in the Battle of Bataan the following year.

2. Lt. J. A. X. Burgos, Philippine Constabulary. J. Antonio Xerez Burgos graduated with the 1917 class of the Philippine Constabulary Academy. First Lieutenant Burgos, who was from Marinduque and by the 1920s was married with children, died in Baguio on 30 November 1927 at the age of thirty-four. He is buried at the Manila North Cemetery.

In 1922, Gallardo was replaced at U.P. by an American army officer. On 11 March 1924 he was promoted to major. Around the middle 1931, Major Gallardo, who by this time was married, was Inspector, 1st Insp. Div., Mindanao-Sulu, with station at Cagayan, Misamis Oriental. Earlier in the year he had been stationed in Cabanatuan. In 1939, Gallardo was in Cebu as a constabulary division inspector.

On 8 December 1941, LCL Silvino Gallardo, 0-1016, was the commander of the American colonial army's Forty-first Infantry Regiment located at Lipa, Batangas. This unit, which was an element of the Forty-first Division, would fight at Bataan. By 1942, Gallardo was a colonel in E Company of his regiment.

35–B "War is a Science"

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• University of the Philippines ROTC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.147.50.169 (talk) 10:49, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Gavino '33

"Les Grandes Batailles" is a French documentary series of the 1960s and 1970s. The episode "La Bataille du Pacifique: la Reconquête" has an interview with Brig. Gen. Roman T. Gavino. Gavino, like Gens. Antonio Luna of the Liberation Army and Basilio Valdes of the Colonial Army, was a Filipino general officer who knew French.

American military instructors

• Chester Arthur Davis
• Abraham Garfinkle

WPMILHIST Assessment

Long and thorough, but needs a little work. I don't think it's quite clear enough from the introduction paragraph that this is a native Filipino military group and not somehow a branch of the US military - Douglas MacArthur was American, and ROTC is an American term (certainly not a Spanish or Filipino one), so I think it can be confusing, particularly for American readers. Also, there are elements which do not read encyclopedically, and sound as if they were written by a member of the unit, taken from the unit's webpage or something like that. In particular, "Duty well performed, Honor untarnished, and Country above-self has been the shibboleth and clarion call of the UP Vanguard since its inception 78 years ago" sounds like an overly embellished self-proud sort of way of describing the unit's history - not very objective or encyclopedic. A great start, just needs some work. Thanks. @LordAmeth 09:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Other units

Please include details about the ROTC/CMT units of U.P. Baguio and U.P. Los Baños, and any other U.P. ROTC/CMT unit. Current articles and histories concentrate only on the U.P. Manila and U.P. Diliman ROTC units. Also include details about such matters as the Vanguard Magazine, a publication of the U.P. Corps of Cadets which existed in the early 1950s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.131.147.186 (talk) 03:45, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Official tailor

In a 1941 Philippine Army publication there is an advertisement which reads: Atienza's Tailoring/552 Rizal Avenue/Official Tailor for the University of the/Philippines' ROTC Unit, Manila —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.97.222.154 (talk) 08:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I have a business card from the mid-1980s which reads:

U.P. CMT & CAT OFFICIAL

TAILORS

U.P. VANGUARD MEN'S WEAR

SHOPPING CENTER - U.P. CAMPUS

MAIN OFFICE:

VM'S TEXTILE EMPORIUM

852 Aurora Blvd, Cubao, Q.C.

Tel. No. 79-78-20 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.52.227.22 (talk) 03:21, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Film appearance

The 1990 movie Tora Tora, Bang Bang was partly filmed at the Department of Citzen Military Training at U.P. Diliman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.105.117.98 (talk) 08:36, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

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