For nearly 80 years, college students have been mandated by the government to undergo military or civilian training to prepare Filipinos to serve the nation. The National Defense Act, the National Service Act, the Basic Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), and the Expanded ROTC Program are all laws that require each of us to perform personal military or civilian service. However, at the beginning of the 2002 school year, the Republic Act 9163 or National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001, where students are given the option to choose between Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS), Literacy Training Service ( LTS) and ROTC, was implemented which led to the abolition of mandatory ROTC in the Philippines. Mark Welson Chua, a former engineering student at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), became a victim of illegal ROTC practices. Chua's death exposed the violence and corruption within the ROTC fueled by its leaders, which ultimately led to a massive uprising by concerned youth and parents against the ROTC program. This paved the way for the creation of the NSTP to fulfill the government's duty to prepare citizens to serve the country. In the final months of 2013, attempts were made to revive mandatory ROTC. There were at least four bills seeking to reinstate mandatory ROTC for tertiary students in colleges and universities. If such a bill were to be passed, there would be a constitutional provision which would give the power to compel the people to defend the State and to order them to perform military or civilian service. Cavite Representative Francis Gerard Abaya (2013), as cited in Salaverria (2013), believes that compulsory military training has become more true and current due to recent events where the country... middle of paper... .and skills applicable to our daily lives. Some even recommended that women undergo compulsory military training. The participants' belief is that males can help defend the country from threats while females can assist in the care and initial response to victims of disasters and emergencies. For those who do not recommend mandatory ROTC, they suggested that freshmen only consider ROTC. They supported the current national service law in which every student is given the opportunity to choose between the three components. They remained faithful to current NSTP practice. In addition to the prepared research questions, the researchers also asked Ms. Bernadette Dimaculangan, DLSL's NSTP area president, other questions related to the research topic. Dimaculangan's other questions and corresponding answers are listed in Table 6 below.