WHEREAS, review of existing rates of per dimes and allowances given to AFP personnel sent on training abroad reveals that these are now inadequate to meet cost of living in countries like the United States where officers and enlisted men of the AFP are sent for schooling and training:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines do hereby Order and Direct:

1. AFP personnel who are sent abroad to undergo training under the International Military Education and Training Program (IMETP) of the United States, the Foreign Military Sties (FMS)arrangement with the United States, Mutual Assistance Programs (MAP) and other training courses especially arranged with foreign countries shall be entitled to the following:

		Clothing	Daily Incidental
	Per Diem	Allowance	Travel Expenses
Officer	US$25.00	$250.00	$2.00
Enlisted Personnel	US$20.00	$200.00	$2.00

2. When a training grant offered by a foreign country includes provisions for a predetermined stipend, per diem, subsistence, lodging and other allowances, the amount of such privileges shall be deducted from his per diem entitlement. In the event that the amount given by the sponsoring government is equal to or more than the amount authorized herein, the per diem allowance provided in this Letter of, Implementation shall not be paid.

3. The clothing allowance fixed herein is subject to the limitation on frequency set by Executive Order No. 129, s-68 as amended by Executive Order No. 421, s-73.

4. The funds needed to implement these revised rates shall be charged to AFP appropriations.

5. All executive orders, rule and regulations, on parts thereof which are inconsistent or in conflict with, any provision of this Letter shall be deemed repealed or modified accordingly.

6. This Letter of Implementation shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 22nd day of December, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Assistant