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The US Navy stopped recruiting
Filipino nationals at the end of 1992, ending a unique program under which tens
of thousands of Filipinos served in the Navy since the Spanish-American War
when the Philippines became a US colony. The recruitment of Filipino Sailors
was formalized in 1947, when the
PILIPINOS IN THE U.S. NAVY. In l903, the U.S.
Navy listed 9
Pilipinos in the ranks; by l905, there were 178. Pilipinos were
restricted to the steward rating until the late l970's, but were
found throughout the Navy, on ships, at shore stations, and
wherever senior Navy officers were assigned. Between World War I
and World War II, the number of Pilipinos remained more or less
constant at roughly 4,000. Despite their restriction to the
steward rating, duty in the Navy was far preferable to remaining
in the barrio. A Pilipino steward remaining in the Navy until
retirement could lump his retirement pay and savings together and
live rather handsomely in his Philippine hometown.
World War II precluded the enlistment of native
Pilipinos in
the Navy, but immigrant Pilipinos in the
join both the Navy and the Army. But, as before, the Pilipinos
in the Navy were limited to the steward rating. After the allied
landings in l944, native Pilipinos were again recruited by the
U.S. Navy, with 2000 enlistments by l946.
The primary motivation for Pilipinos to join the Navy
was,
and is, poverty at home. The 1946 wartime devastation at home
left little hope for a future in the
Pilipinos who had retired from the U.S. Navy and returned home
were respected by their villages because of their high social and
economic status. As a result, the number of Pilipinos wanting to
enlist has always exceeded the number of available openings.
Competition is keen for the limited slots. (Regents of the University of
California. Letters in Exile.
Pilipinos have a "special relationship" with
the
as a result of the Military Bases Agreement of l947. Article 27
of that agreement allows the
not initially set quotas or restrict the enlistees to the steward
rating; those were Navy policy decisions. The agreement was
modified in l952 and l954, setting the number of Pilipino
enlistments at 1,000 and then 2,000. The thousands of applicants
for these limited positions have allowed the Navy to selectively
recruit only better qualified individuals, many with some college
education. By l983 there were l9,733 Pilipino enlisted persons and
379 officers in the U.S. Navy. The
Pilipino enlisted personnel and 588 Pilipino officers in the
Navy. These figures represent 3.7 percent of the enlisted force
in the Navy, and .8 percent of the officer force. All ratings
that do not require specific security clearances are open to them
just as they are to other personnel. (Pido, Anthony. The Pilipinos
in America. New York: Center
for Migration Studies of New York, Inc., l985)
In l985, Commander Tem E. Bugarin became the first
Pilipino
to command a surface ship of the line when he assumed command of
USS Saginaw, LST1188. Bugarin was born in Bay-Bay Leyte
(Republic of the
parents at the age of 2. 1. (Almodouar, Evelyn F.
"First Filipino CO Was Runaway Teen
Chasing a Dream." All Hands (August
l989)
As of June 1992 Filipino-American in the
Rank ---Title ----------Filipino ---Total Asian-- Total, all active
E-1 ------Recruit -----------499------- 675 -------22,974
E-2 ------Apprentice------- 699------- 982------- 30,067
E-3 ------Seaman ----------1505 -----2110 -------69,112
E-4 ------PettyOfficer 3rd-2644 ----3372 ------101,044
E-5 ------PettyOfficer 2nd-3966 ----4486 ------102,649
E-6 ------PettyOfficer1st-----471 ----4991 --------84,281
E-7 ------Chief
E-8 ------Sr Chief -----------1055 ----1102 -------10,219
E-9------- Master Chief -----403 -----423 ---------4,842
W-1------- Warrant Off ---------0 --------0 -------------53
W-2------- WO2 ----------------43 -------46 ----------1534
W-3 -------WO3 ----------------34 -------34 -----------813
W-4 -------WO4 ----------------17 -------18 -----------533
O-1 -------Ensign ------------101 ------243 ---------7,753
O-2 -------Lt (jg) -------------100 -------250 --------9,870
O-3 -------Lt ------------------213 -------474 --------2,4382
O-4 -------Lt Cdr --------------89 -------193 -------13,368
O-5 -------Cdr -----------------46 ---------95 --------7,847
O-6--------Captain -----------14 ---------36 --------3,612
O-7 -------Rear Adm(L)------- 0 ----------1 ----------124
O-8 -------Rear Adm(U)--------0 ----------0 -----------80
O-9------- Vice Adm------------ 0 ----------0 -----------29
O-10 ------Adm-------------------0 ----------0 ------------9
I am
getting a copy of the US-Philippine treaty that ratified our contract in 1953.
A former US Army Veteran who worked hard in behalf of the WW2 Filipino Veteran
in
During the height of US Navy recruitment there were more Filipino
Sailors in the
Thousands of Filipinos took advantage of this enlistment to find a way
to come to
This is the 50th anniversary of the initial enlistment in
1947. I am not surprised to see that one of the "you might be a
Filipino" traits was "if one of your parents is in the
Filipinos Coming to America
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