Noy installs senior military aide as new PSG chief

MANILA, Philippines - President Aquino has designated his senior military aide, Navy Capt. Raul Ubando, as the new commander of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) replacing Brig. Gen. Ramon Mateo Dizon who retired from the service yesterday.

Dizon turned 56 today, the mandatory retirement age for the military.

Aquino, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, led yesterday’s change of command ceremony at the PSG Grandstand in Malacañang.

Ubando is a member of Philippine Military Academy Class of 1985.

He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from PMA and was commissioned as an ensign in the Philippine Navy in 1985.

The new PSG chief also earned his masters in management from the Philippine Christian University.

Like Dizon, Ubando served as platoon leader of the presidential guards’ second security company protecting the late President Cory Aquino in December 1989, his first tour of duty in PSG, which was then headed by now Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin.

In 1999, he returned to his duties in the Navy.

In 2002, Ubando was assigned to Camp Aguinaldo and was designated assistant chief, moral and welfare division.

Four years later, he went back to the Navy and was named deputy director for Naval Management and Fiscal Office.