By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Can you still remember that famous and courageous soldier who took off
his Kevlar helmet and bullet vest as quid pro quo to ISIS
rebels in Marawi City so he could save a four years old girl and other
Christian hostages from the ISIS rebels in Marawi City in exchange of
containers of water, soft drinks, and biscuits?
Yap, he is Army Captain Jeffrey Buada, commander of the 15th Scout
Ranger Company.
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British Royal Marine snipers with their L115A1 sniper rifles.
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After he was feted recently by his town Mangaldan in Pangasinan for his
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in Marawi, I asked Buada, a graduate
of the Philippine Military Academy, about those incidents while we consumed our
snacks treated by Mangaldan Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno and the town’s chief of
Police Superintendent Jeff Fanged.
Buada’s wife told me that the spouse is a sniper, too.
Indeed he was as I saw earlier on his shoulder badge a sniper’s logo
embroidered with a glaring red word “Sniper”.
Marksmen like Buada played a major role in the urban warfare in the
Philippines where the State Security just won in a protracted Pyrrhic victory
against the international terrorist Islamic groups and their associates’ Maute
Muslim rebels in the now scorched to that ground Southern Philippines’ city.
