Lt. Gen. Roy Cimatu, Southcom chief, personally gave each soldier recuperating at the Camp Navarro General Hospital (CNGH) here, a Christmas package.
At the same time, Cimatu said Gen. Diomedio Villanueva, the Armed Forces’ chief, is now working out the soldiers’ promotions.
Col. Joselito Castro, the CNGH chief, said majority of the soldiers were wounded in clashes with the Abu Sayyaf, and the rest with followers of renegade Muslim leader Nur Misuari.
Some of the soldiers contracted malaria while operating in the jungles of Basilan. — Roel Pareño