The Southern Luzon Command, known officially as the SolCom, is one of the Armed Forces of the Philippines

Armed Forces of the Philippines

The Armed Forces of the Philippines is composed of the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force...

' Wide Support Commands Combating Terrorism and Insurgency in Southern Luzon.

Mission

Their mission is to conduct sustained Internal Security Operations (ISO) in Southern Luzon to neutralize the Communist-Terrorist Movement (CTM) and reduce their operational capabilities. One of their missions is to support local Law Enforcement as well as the Philippine National Police

Philippine National Police

The Philippine National Police is the national police force of the Republic of the Philippines. It is both a national and a local police force in that it does provides all law enforcement services throughout the Philippines...

 in containing the NPA

New People's Army

The New People's Army is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. It was formed on March 29, 1969. The Maoist NPA conducts its armed guerrilla struggle based on the strategical line of 'protracted people's war'.The NPA exacts so called "revolutionary taxes" from business owners...

 while supporting the peace process; and destroy the JI network operating in their AOR. This is needed to establish a secured backdoor to mainland Luzon and maintain a physically & psychologically sound environment conducive to growth and development in this southernmost part of the island.

Lineage of Commanding Generals

• MGen Resituto G Padilla 0-4198 AFP - (1 January 1987 – 30 June 1987)
• MGen Antonio R Samonte AFP - (1 July 1987 – 25 March 1988)
• BGen Alejandro A Galido 0-4295 AFP (26 March 1988 – 26 January 1990)
• BGen Evaristo G Carino 0-4514 AFP (27 January 1990 – 18 March 1990)
• BGen Federico F Ruiz 0-4478 AFP (19 March 1990 – 22 March 1992)
• MGen Cesar F Fortuno 0-4580 AFP (23 March 1992 – 31 March 1993)
• BGen Raymundo T Jarque 0-4566 AFP (31 March 1993 – 30 January 1994)
• MGen Oswaldo P Villanueva 0-4647 AFP (8 March 1994 – 20 July 1995)
• MGen Clemente P Mariano 0-4829 AFP (23 July 1995 – 19 March 1996)
• MGen Jose Maria G Solquillo 0-4909 AFP (15 March 1996 – 22 April 1997)
• MGen Samuel T Dunque 0-5010 AFP (22 June 1997 – 27 August 1998)
• MGen Voltaire T Gazmin 0-5447 AFP (21 September 1998 – 16 July 1999)
• MGen Diomedio P. Villanueva 0-5443 AFP (16 July 1999 – 1 March 2000)
• MGen Jose S Lachica 0-5222 AFP (1 March 2000 – 16 March 2001
• MGen Narciso L Abaya 0-5911 AFP (28 March 2001 – 12 December 2001)
• MGen Ernesto G Carolina 0-5637 AFP (13 December 2001 – 21 May 2002)
• MGen Roy V Kyamko 0-5693 AFP (23 May 2002 – 11 May 2003)
• LGen Pedro R Cabuay 0-6538 AFP (26 October 2004 – 30 July 2006)
• LGen Alexander B Yano 0-7261 AFP (31 July 2006 – 24 August 2007)
• LGen Rodolfo S Obaniana 0-6700 AFP (25 August 2007 – 16 May 2008 )
• MGen Delfin N Bangit (16 May 2008 – Present)

Units

The following are the units that are under the Southern Luzon Command.

• 2nd Infantry (Jungle Fighter) Division, PA
  2nd Infantry (Jungle Fighter) Division
  The 2nd Infantry Division, Philippine Army, known officially as the Jungle Fighter Division, is the Philippine Army's primary Infantry unit specializing in jungle warfare....
  
  
• 9th Infantry (SPEAR) Division, PA
  9th Infantry (SPEAR) Division
  The 9th Infantry Division, Philippine Army, known officially as the Spear Division, is the Philippine Army's primary Infantry unit assigned to combat communist insurgency in the Bicol Region....
  
  
• Naval Forces Southern Luzon, PN

Operations

• Anti-guerrilla operations against the New People's Army
  New People's Army
  The New People's Army is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. It was formed on March 29, 1969. The Maoist NPA conducts its armed guerrilla struggle based on the strategical line of 'protracted people's war'.The NPA exacts so called "revolutionary taxes" from business owners...
  
  * Anti-terrorist operations against known terror groups operating in their AOR.

Trivia

• SOLCOM has produced (5) Commanding Generals for the Philippine Army and (3) AFP Chief's of Staff.