Maj. Gen. Daniel Casabar has been named commanding general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Central Command in the Visayas.

Casabar will replace Lt. Gen. Pedro Ike Inserto as the CentCom chief, in turnover of command rites, today, to be presided over by AFP chief of staff Alexander Yano at Camp Lapu-Lapu in Cebu City.

Casabar was formerly commanding general of the Special Operations Command that supervises the Army’s elite Special Forces and Scout Ranger Regiments of the Army, as well as the counter-terrorist unit Light Reaction Battalion, and, later, as AFP deputy chief of staff for Logistics, military records show.

Inserto who is reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56 for military and police personnel, is hanging up his military uniform.

Brig. Gen. Vicente Porto also took over the command of the 3rd Infantry Division from Maj. Gen. Nestor Ochoa who is now assigned as 5th Infantry Division chief in northern Luzon.

The 3rd Infantry Division in Western Visayas and 8th Infantry Division in Eastern Visayas are among the key military units in Visayas, being supervised by the AFP Central Command.*GPB

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