By Manny Mogato, News5 editor-at-large
(October 17, 2023) – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has named a seasoned military pilot as the new commander of a joint commander guarding the first family and promoted the current commander to the next higher rank.
The Presidential Communications Office has announced on Tuesday Marcos has appointed Air Force Brigadier General Jesus Nelson B. Morales as the new commander of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), a regiment-size military and police unit.
His appointment was made on Sunday.
Morales, the deputy commander of the Air Force’s logistics command, took over from Army special forces officer, Brigadier General Ramon P. Zagala.
Zagala would take over his new command next week, leading the Armed Forces Civil Relations Service, a position that carries a two-star rank.
As a young military pilot, Morales was formerly assigned at the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing and had flown four presidents, from Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Benigno Aquino and Rodrigo Duterte.
Morales graduated from the Philippine Military Academy in 1993 and trained as a pilot at the Air Force flying school in Fernando Air Base in Lipa City.
Zagala, a media savvy officer, was the former spokesman of the armed force before he was named PSG commander last year. He was also a battalion commander in Davao area and was trained as special forces office.
His father was the former commanding general of the Philippine Army when the late dictator imposed martial law in September 1972. The late general Rafael Zagala was among the dictator’s so-called Rolex generals.
A military source said the president has approved other new appointments in the armed forces, including the new commander of the military intelligence service.
A former defense attache in Pakistan, Brigadier General Edmundo Peralta, a member of the Philippine Military Academy batch 1992, will be the next Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
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