BASIC ROTC COMMON MODULE
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Number of units: 3
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COURSE OUTLINE and REFERENCES: This course, which is specifically designed for students enrolled in the Paralegal
Program, focuses on the most important canons of legal ethics practiced in the legal profession.
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TOPIC/ACTIVITY
1. PHYSICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE CADET
CORPS and COURSE ORIENTATION
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 Course orientation
 Organization of the Cadet Corps
Organizing the Cadets by squad/platoon,
company and its equivalent of the Cadets
Corps. Course orientation (General
Provisions, attendance, Grading System,
Merits System, Condition of the Service).
2. NSTP Program
(RA 9163)
 NSTP
 NSTP Program
a. Preamble
b. IRR
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a. Citizenship Training
 Citizenship Training
a. Self-awareness
b. Good Citizenship Values
Leadership for the Development
of the Youth
b. Drugs Education
a. An introduction to Dangerous
Drugs prevention and control
b. Drug Trafficking
c. Controlled Substances
Preamble
IRR
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Self-awareness
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Good Citizenship Values
Leadership Values
 Drug education
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Prevention and control
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Drug trafficking
Controlled substances
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Controlled Substances
d. What everybody should know
about drug abuse
e. Government Counter Action
against Drug Abuse
c. Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management
a. Overview of Philippine Disaster
Management System (PDMS
Disaster)
b. Risk Profile of the Philippines
(Focus on specific Region/Area
where the school is located )
c. Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management (DRRM) concepts,
principles and trends
d. Hazard mapping and contingency
planning
e. Disaster Response, Rescue and
Relief Operation
e.1. Basic Disaster Response
Training (Survival Training)
- first aid/Basic Life Support
- Search and Rescue (Water,
Earthquake, Landslide, Fire)
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About drug abuse
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Actions against drug abuse
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Disaster risk reduction and management
Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies and Risk
Management Practices
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PDMS disaster
Philippine disaster management system
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Risk profile of the Philippines
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DRRM
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Mapping and planning
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Disaster response, rescue and relief
operation
basic life support
Search and rescue (water)
Land
Earthquakes
Fire
d. National Security Concerns
 National security
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Types of threats, Human and
Ecological Security
Organization that are inimical to
peace and order and development of
the country
The capabilities and vulnerability
e. Environmental Protection
a. General Concepts to
environmental education
b. Brief related Laws and Regulations
to ensure environmental
protection
 Environmental security
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Environmental education
Concept of environmental education
Related laws and regulations
c. Climate change adaptation and
challenges
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d. Strategies for Ecowaste
Management
Climate change adaptation and
challenges
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
on Philippine Coasts
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Eco-waste management
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ROTC
Fundamental law in ROTC
Pertinent republic act in ROTC
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Military organization
Chain of command
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Military courtesy and discipline
Salute
Courtesies
Insignias in AFP
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Interior Guard Duty
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Military Justice
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Human Rights
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Human Rights provisions
3. Military Orientation
a. ROTC legal basis
Specific provisions of the
fundamental law and pertinent
Republic Act.
b. Military Organization
Chain of Command (Commanderin-chief, DND, and AFP) Brief
history of the AFP, mission,
organization and capabilities of
the AFP, Major Service RESCOMS
and AFPRESCOM
c. Military Courtesy and Discipline
Definition of terms. Who, What,
When, Where, Why and How to
salute, Services and last
courtesies, Identification of Ranks,
Insignias in the AFP
d. Interior Guard Duty
Brief history of the AFP
AFP mission
organization and capabilities of the AFP
Major Service RESCOMS and
AFPRESCOM
Definition of terms, sequence of
formal/informal guard mounting,
11 General Orders.
e. Military Justice
Military Justice System, Sources of
Military Law, Military Jurisdiction,
Selected punitive Articles of War,
and relationship between civilmilitary courts.
f. Human Rights
Provisions of Human Rights
Selected punitive Articles of War
relationship between civil-military courts
g. Threats National Security
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Threats National Security
h. Anti and Counter Terrorism
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Anti and Counter Terrorism
4. COMBAT TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL
SOLDIER (CTIS)
 CTIS
 COMBAT TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL
SOLDIER
a. Basic Signal Communication
Introduction to signal communication,
five (5) means of communication,
familiarization of different radio
equipment, its capabilities and
limitations. Military pro-words, Morse
code, flashing lights, hand and arm
signal, semaphore and recognition
distress signal.
b. Basic Intelligence
Definition of terms, principles of
intelligence, intelligence axioms,
intelligence cycle.
c. Basic Survival
Familiarization on various field craft,
survival of the sea, water and food
discipline and other survival technique
d. Basic Map Reading
Map orientation; types of maps
according to scale; azimuths and
directions using a compass and a
protractor. Measuring distances on
maps; locating points on the map and
means of locating ones position on
the map and on the ground.
e. Basic Obstacle Course
Familiarization with the different
obstacle found in the battlefield.
f. Intro to CMO
Different pillars of CMO, concept,
roles and significance of CMO for the
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Intro to signal communication
Means of communication
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Basic Intelligence
Intelligence
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Basic Survival
5 Basic Survival
Survival (Food)
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Map Reading
Basic Map reading
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azimuths and directions using a compass
and a protractor
Using compass
Map Scale Types
Map Scales
Measuring distance on map
How to measure distance on a Map
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Obstacle course
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Obstacle found in battlefield
furtherance of the AFP mission.
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Movement technique
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Unit Formations
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Types of Combat formation
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Marches and Bivouacs/Land Navigation
Definition of Terms; classification of
troop movements (Tactical and
Admin) Control Measures in the
proper conduct of foot and vehicular
marches; selection and occupation of
bivouac area.
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Classification of troop movement
AGOS/Heliborne Opns
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AGOS
Procedures
g. Individual Movement Technique
Day and night movement, cover and
concealment, camouflaging,
organizing the squad/platoon into
their individual role as a Rifleman.
h. Basic Unit Formations
Different types of combat formation
(Team, Squad, Platoon, and
Company).
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Marches and Bivouacs/Land
Navigation
selection and occupation of bivouac area
Bivouac area
Selection Bivouac area
Procedures on directing, troop and
dismount from a helicopter.
5. INDIVIDUAL PROTECTIVE MEASURES
a. Personality Hygiene and Sanitation
 Protective measures
 Individual protective measures
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Personality Hygiene and Sanitation
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Types of wounds and treatment
Health maintenance and sanitary
practices, types and treatment of
communicable disease, measures to
protect and improve health
responsibility for military sanitation.
b. 1st aid/ Basic Life support
Types of wounds and treatment,
application of tourniquet and
casualty. Intro to Basic Life Support,
ABC BLS, Respiratory and
application of tourniquet and casualty
ABC BLS
Respiratory and Cardiovascular System
Technique of Basic CPR
Cardiovascular System, Technique of
Basic CPR, Evacuation procedures.
c. Basic Self Defense
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Evacuation procedures
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Basic Self Defense
Methods of arming and disarming to
include basic offensive and defensive
strikes.
6. BASIC WEAPONS TRAINING
 Weapons training
a. M16 .56mm/M14 7.62mm/Cal 30 M1
Garand
Nomenclature, general data, cycle of
operation assembly and disassembly,
care and maintenance
b. Hand Grenade
History of Grenade, Parts of Grenade,
Capability and Limitation Procedure of
throwing hand Grenade.
7. PRE-MARKMANSHIP TRAINING
Fundamentals of firing, types of firing
positions (Prone Sitting, Kneeling,
Standing to prone and Standing to
sitting). Correct Sight Picture,
Triangulation and coach and pupil
techniques.
8. DRILLS AND CEREMONIES
a. Dismounted Drill
Lecture and conduct dismounted
drills, ceremonies, parades, inspection
of individual equipment.
b. Ceremonies
Parade and Review. Conduct of Arrival
of Honor, Presentation of Sponsors.
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Hand Grenades
Grenades history
History of grenade
Parts of grenade
Grenade
Throwing hand grenade
Hand grenade gripping procedure
Pre-markmanship training
Pre-markmanship
Firing fundamentals
Firing positions
Correct sight picture
 Drills and ceremonies
 Dismounted drill