The fight is not over. Wearing civilian clothes, dismissed cadet Aldrin Jeff Cudia faced the media on Monday. He didn’t speak but sat through the press conference his family called a week after his failed campaign to graduate in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). The family, who got an audience with President Benigno Aquino III, said the President promised them results in a week, but nothing happened. The special investigation board has not submitted its recommendation to military top brass. Jeff’s father said the boy has no plans to join the military anymore. “They will just make a fool of him.” Cudia was supposed to graduate as top of the Navy Class. The PMA Honor Committee declared him guilty of violating the Honor Code because he supposedly lied about the reason he was late in one class. The family wants the PMA to give Jeff his diploma so he can look for a job outside the military.
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