01/22/2021

Dariel C. De Venecia

BS CRIM 1E – 1

ROTC REACTION PAPER:

AFP MANDATE, MISSION, FUNCTION AND ORGANIZATION

The AFP is responsible for upholding the sovereignty, supporting the Constitution, and
defending the territory of the Republic of the Philippines against all enemies foreign and domestic;
advancing the national aims, interest and policies; and planning the organization, maintenance,
development, and deployment of its regular and citizen armed force for National Security. The Chief of
Staff, AFP (CSAFP), under the authority and direction of the Secretary of National Defense (SND) and the
President, is responsible for the execution of National Defense Programs and armed forces missions;
and prescribe the organization, powers, duties, and functions of the various AFP staffs, services and
offices in accordance with the policies of the SND. The functions of AFP is to secure the sovereignty of
the state and the integrity of the national territory, protect the country from foreign aggression and
internal subversion, to advance the national aims and interest, to perform such duties as the President
may direct and the vision of AFP is an armed force that is fully mission effective, right sized, credibly-
equipped, versatile and highly responsive to the technological, doctrinal and sociological changes. The
Organization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is composed the three major services, namely
the Philippine Navy (PN), Philippine Army (PA) and the Philippine Air Force (PAF). The organization is
loosely based on the structure of the United States military, which it was patterned after during the
Commonwealth era.