AFP launches review of reserve force policies after medal controversy

A single photograph — a reservist's chest bearing more medals than the AFP Chief of Staff — surfaced what soldiers had long whispered among themselves: that honor and rank in the Reserve Force had, for some, become a matter of influence rather than sacrifice. The Armed Forces of the Philippines now faces not merely a policy question but a deeper reckoning about whether its institutions reflect the values it asks its soldiers to live by. An investigation is underway, and a broader review of Reserve Force recruitment and promotion has been promised — but the real test, as it always is, lies not