Camp Aguinaldo
{{Short description|Barangay in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines}}
{{Use Philippine English|date=January 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox military installation
| name = Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo
| nativename = Kampo Heneral Emilio Aguinaldo
| location = Quezon City, Philippines
| image = 35th National Reservists Week 10.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = General Headquarters Building of the AFP at Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City.
| type = Military base
| built = 1935
| materials = Concrete and Metal
| used = 1935–present
| controlledby = {{flag|Philippines}}
| garrison = 20px Department of National Defense
- National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
- Philippine Veterans Affairs Office
- National Defense College of the Philippines
- AFP General Headquarters & Headquarters Service Command
- NCR Command/ Joint Task Force NCR
- AFP Reserve Command
- AFP Command & General Staff College
- AFP Joint Special Operations Group
- AFP Peacekeeping Operations Center
|current_commander = 18px BGen Armand F. Arevalo, PA
| battles = {{bulleted list| World War II | Korean War | Vietnam War | Gulf War | Iraq War | Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines}}
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Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo (CGEA; formerly Camp Murphy), also known as Camp Aguinaldo, is the site of the general headquarters (GHQ) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
It is located in Quezon City along EDSA, a major thoroughfare of the metropolis, to which it is across Camp Crame, the national headquarters (NHQ) of the Philippine National Police (PNP). The military installation is named after Philippine revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo, who became the first Philippine president and fought in the Philippine Revolution, the Spanish–American War, and the Philippine–American War.
Land
The combined areas of both Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame covers a total land area of {{convert|220|ha|km2}}, with {{convert|34|ha|km2}} being part of a deed of donation from the Ortigas and Company Partnership Limited in the 1950s. The company had originally acquired these lands as estate holdings from the Augustinian Order, such as the Hacienda de Mandaluyon.{{Cite web|title=The Developer|url=https://www.ortigasproperties.com/the-developer/|access-date=December 15, 2021|website=Ortigas Land Properties|language=en-US}}
Camp Aguinaldo occupies {{convert|178.7|ha|km2}} of this total area,{{Cite web|last=Gonzales|first=Iris|title=Ortigas & Co. still keen to develop Camp Aguinaldo, Crame|url=https://www.philstar.com/business/2019/07/15/1934678/ortigas-co-still-keen-develop-camp-aguinaldo-crame|access-date=December 15, 2021|website=Philstar.com}} of which {{convert|152.5|ha|km2}} hectares were purchased by the government and the remaining {{convert|26.2|ha|km2}} hectares were donated by Ortigas and Company.{{Cite web|title=Ortigas & Co banks on realty projects for growth|url=https://www.philstar.com/business/2010/10/27/624131/ortigas-co-banks-realty-projects-growth|access-date=December 15, 2021|website=Philstar.com}}{{Cite web|last=Mendez|first=Christina|title=Lawmakers caution government on sale of police, military camps|url=https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2011/01/11/646692/lawmakers-caution-government-sale-police-military-camps|access-date=December 15, 2021|website=Philstar.com}}
History
File:Landing Fields - Philippines - Zablan Field - NARA - 68160714.jpg
File:Armed Forces of the Philippines (Boni Serrano, Quezon City; 01-18-2021).jpg
File:Defense.gov News Photo 000915-D-2987S-037.jpg William Cohen at the Camp Aguinaldo Grandstand and Parade Ground.]]
Camp Aguinaldo was established on January 11, 1935, as Camp Murphy, including Zablan Field, which acted as an airstrip. It was then part of San Juan, Rizal. It was named in honor of the first American High Commissioner to the Philippines Frank Murphy. It was renamed Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo in 1965, after the first president of the Philippines.{{cite web |title=Republic Act No. 4434 |url=https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1965/ra_4434_1965.html |website=The LawPhil Project |access-date=February 4, 2021}}{{cite book |last1=Yenne |first1=Bill |title=MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51 |date=September 19, 2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4728-3322-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UeQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT26 |access-date=February 4, 2021 |language=en}} The Philippine Constabulary General Service Battalion was the first to use the camp in January 1935. In December of that year, the National Defense Act paved the way for the formation of the Philippine Army.{{cite book |title=Army History: The Professional Bulletin of Army History |date=1989 |publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4V1OAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA7-PA1 |access-date=February 4, 2021 |language=en}} It also designated the Philippine Constabulary as the Army Constabulary Division,{{cite book |last=Chaffee |first=Frederic H. |title=Area Handbook for the Philippines |date=1969 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qoTlAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA369 |page=369 |access-date=February 4, 2021 |language=en}} which maintains its peacekeeping mission under the DND.
In June 1938, the Army Constabulary Division was separated from the Philippine Army and was reformed to become the National Police Force under the Department of Interior.{{Cite web |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20110108-313174/Camps-Crame-Aguinaldo-for-salePurisima |title=Camps Crame, Aguinaldo for sale-Purisima – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos |access-date=January 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110011023/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20110108-313174/Camps-Crame-Aguinaldo-for-salePurisima |archive-date=January 10, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
After World War II, Camp Murphy was divided into two camps—Camp Crame and Camp Aguinaldo. The Zablan Field's former Japanese runways now forms the roads of White Plains Avenue and a portion of Katipunan Avenue, just in front of White Plains subdivisions.{{Cite web|url=http://pacificwrecks.com/|title=Pacific Wrecks|website=Pacificwrecks.com|access-date=September 1, 2019}} The camp was transferred to the jurisdiction of Quezon City in 1941,{{cite web |title=Quezon's City: Corruption and contradiction in Manila's prewar suburbia, 1935–1941 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/22505B43861B5BB45FE261C348A1FDDF/S0022463416000497a.pdf/div-class-title-quezon-s-city-corruption-and-contradiction-in-manila-s-prewar-suburbia-1935-1941-div.pdf |last1=Pante |first1=Michael D. |website=Cambridge.org |date=February 2017 |access-date=July 24, 2021 }}{{cite PH act|chamber=CA|number=659|title=An act to amend sections two, three, twelve, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four, and twenty-seven of Commonwealth Act numbered five hundred and two, and inserting new sections therein, to be known as sections thirteen-A, twenty-one-A, twenty-one-B, twenty-one-C, twenty-one-D, twenty-one-E, twenty-one-F, A and twenty-one-G |url=https://lawlibrary.chanrobles.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67428:commonwealth-act-no--659&catid=92&Itemid=741|publisher=Chan Robles Virtual Law Library|date=June 21, 1941 |access-date=February 21, 2024}} and briefly became part of the City of Greater Manila, resulting from Quezon City's merger with Manila and several Rizal towns, from 1942 to 1945.{{cite PH act|chamber=EO|number=400, s. 1942|title=Creating the City of Greater Manila|date=January 1, 1942|accessdate=August 24, 2022|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1942/01/01/executive-order-no-400-s-1942/|publisher=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|archive-date=July 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701173652/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1942/01/01/executive-order-no-400-s-1942/|url-status=dead}}{{cite PH act|chamber=EO|number=58, s. 1945|title=Reducing the Territory of the City of Greater Manila|date=July 25, 1945|accessdate=August 24, 2022|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1945/07/26/executive-order-no-58-s-1945/|publisher=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|archive-date=March 8, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308195829/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1945/07/26/executive-order-no-58-s-1945/|url-status=dead}}
During the EDSA Revolution in February 1986, Camp Aguinaldo, along with Camp Crame, were targeted by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) - a cabal of disgruntled officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) led by RAM founder Col. Gringo Honasan as key strategic facilities to restrict counteroffensive from Marcos-loyal troops as a part of a coup attempt against Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, however the coup was quickly uncovered and was ultimately aborted.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-22 |title=EDSA PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION |url=https://www.amnesty.org.ph/2022/07/protestph-edsa-revolution/ |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=Amnesty Philippines |language=en-US}}
On November 21, 2013, Civic Groups and Volunteers were to be transferred to Camp Emilio Aguinaldo from Villamor Air Base in Pasay. It was done to give more storage spaces for those who were part of Oplan Salubong. All relief supports including food, medical and transportation services were to be transferred to Camp Aguinaldo together with the DSWD in the benefit of Typhoon Yolanda survivors.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2013/11/21/yolanda-survivors-be-sent-camp-aguinaldo-314876 |title=Typhoon Yolanda survivors to be sent to Camp Aguinaldo | Sun.Star |website=SunStar |access-date=July 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714222034/http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2013/11/21/yolanda-survivors-be-sent-camp-aguinaldo-314876 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/metro-manila/01/11/14/fire-hits-isafp-building-camp-aguinaldo|title=Fire hits ISAFP building in Camp Aguinaldo|website=ABS-CBN News}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/|title=The Manila Times|newspaper=The Manila Times}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.golfadvisor.com/courses/32219-camp-aguinaldo-golf-course|title=Camp Aguinaldo Golf Course|website=Golfadvisor.com}}
In March 2019, the DOTr announced that the Katipunan station of the Metro Manila Subway is planned to be built underneath a portion of the camp's property, along the intersection of Katipunan Avenue and Col. Bonny Serrano Avenue, in order to boost property values in the area and generate investments for the government .{{Cite web|url=http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1063770|title=6 subway stations to rise on gov't properties|website=Philippine News Agency|access-date=March 16, 2019}}
Barangay
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| leader_name = Gregorio R. Tolentino{{Cite web|title=Quezon City Barangay Officials|url=https://quezoncity.gov.ph/quezon-city-barangay-officials/|access-date=December 14, 2021|website=Quezon City Government|date=January 8, 2021 |language=en}}
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The military installation is situated in its own administrative division as a barangay of Quezon City, known as Barangay Camp Aguinaldo. Prior to this, Camp Aguinaldo was part of Barangay Socorro until the namesake barangay was created through Executive Order No. 29 signed by Mayor Norberto S. Amoranto on June 25, 1975. At the time of creation, the barangay had 250 households and a voting population of 800 people.
The land boundaries of Barangay Camp Aguinaldo are defined by Boni Serrano Avenue (formerly known as Santolan Road) to the north, EDSA to the west, White Plains Avenue to the south, and the eastern perimeter of the base to the east. Some non-military establishments can be found near the northern boundary with Barangay Socorro along Boni Serrano Avenue, such as the Saint Ignatius de Loyola Parish Church and the Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo High School.
Its barangay hall can be located at the intersection of Road 3 and Gozar Street.
See also
References
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;Bibliography
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140620201803/http://afp.mil.ph/ Official Page of the Armed Forces of the Philippines]
- Pobre, Cesar P. (2006). History of the Armed Forces of the Filipino People. New Day Publishers.{{ISBN|9711010410}}.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100829202854/http://www.afp.mil.ph/ghq_hsc/index.html Camp Aguinaldo Official website]
- [http://www.afp.mil.ph Armed Forces of the Philippines]
- Camp Murphy, Zablan Airfield, Camp Aguinaldo [http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/zablan/index.html Pacific Wrecks.org]
{{Military Bases of the Philippines}}
{{Military Headquarters}}
{{Quezon City}}
{{Geographic location
|North=Socorro
San Roque
Bayanihan
|Northwest=Bagong Lipunan Ng Crame
|West=Greenhills, San Juan
|Center=Camp Aguinaldo
|Southwest=Wack Wack-Greenhills East, Mandaluyong
|South=Ugong Norte
|Southeast=
|East=White Plains
Saint Ignatius
|Northeast=Blue Ridge A
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{{Metro Manila populated places}}
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Category:1935 establishments in the Philippines
Category:Barangays of Metro Manila