MILITARY SCIENCE (MS-1)
PO2 LARRY R SANTOCILDES PN
Upon completion of these lesson the student will:
 Define Civil Military Operations
 Enumerate the AFP programs to attain objectives
of CMO
 Differentiate the components of CMO programs
I. Definition
II. Objectives of CMO
III. Components of CMO programs
I. Definition:
Civil Military Operations (CMO) –
encompasses those economic, psychopolitical and psycho-social activities
undertaken by the AFP in coordination
with Civil Government Agencies (CGA),
Local Government Units (LGU) and NonGovernment Organizations (NGO) prior to
or
during
subsequent
to
combat
operations and/or natural or man-made
disasters and calamities.
II. CMO Objectives
Are pursued through
interrelated AFP programs
categorized into:
six (6)
generally
AFP Personnel-oriented Programs:
1. Military values education (MILVED)
2. Livelihood enhancement
(LIVELIHOOD)
3. Community Relations (COMREL)
4. Civic Action (CIVAC)
5. Public Information (PUBLIC INFO)

Enemy-oriented programs
6.Psychological Operations (PSYOPS)
III. CMO components:
1. Military Values Education
MILVED – the
dynamic
process
of
learning
internalizing, upholding and
practicing universal truths,
moral principles and timehonored intrinsic military values
and ethics essential to the
pursuit of afp goals and
objectives.
2. Military Livelihood
Enhancement Program
LIVELIHOOD - designed to
provide necessary assistance to
the soldier and his dependents
to embark on productive
ventures that enable him to
cope with harsh economic
realities while in the active
service and during retirement.
3. Military Civic Action
Program
CIVAC – the use of afp
resources in predominantly
non-military
projects
and
activities useful to the people
and supportive of combat
operations in such fields as
socio-economic: health and
sanitation;
agri-industrial;
education and the like.
4. Community Relations Program
COMREL – the active participation
of AFP personnel, individual or
collectively as an AFP unit, in
people – oriented rallies like: antidrug abuse, anti-smut and other
campaign
against
immoral
activities. It also includes openhouses, static displays of military
hardware, and use of camp
facilities/utilities for people oriented
projects.
5. Public Information Program
PUBLIC
INFO
–
is
the
dissemination
of
military
information through all forms of
communication media to include
inter-personal,
face-to-face
communication to the internal
audience and more specifically to
the public-at-large with the view of
informing them about what the afp
has done, is doing and plans to do
to bring about peace and security.
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