‘What are the Americans doing in Vietnam, anyway?’

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The likes of Victor Corpus will never come again in the military – or the communist New People’s Army

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After graduation, the radicalized Corpus briefly joined the now-defunct Philippine Constabulary before returning to the PMA as an instructor. Three years later, in 1970, the 26-year-old soldier defected to the communist doing the unthinkable: he led communist rebels in a daring December raid of the PMA armory, carting away nearly all the academy’s short and long firearms and leaving a deep scar in the institution that would take decades to heal.

A rebel by nature, he railed against corruption that persisted in the armed forces and the government. So that when the hard-partying and womanizing actor Joseph Estrada was elected president in 1998 and was accused of massive corruption, Corpus turned into a rebel again, but this time from within. He was one of the key officers who persuaded the late military chief of staff Angelo Reyes to withdraw support from Estrada, triggering thein January 2001.

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