National Service Training Program, also referred to by the acronym NSTP, is a ci

vic education and defense preparedness program for Filipino tertiary education s
tudents instituted by the Government of the Philippines on 23 January 2002 by vi
rtue of Republic Act 9163, otherwise known as the "National Service Training Pro
gram (NSTP) Act of 2001".
Coverage[edit]
Under the NSTP Program, The Study of JOBET CARUMBA THE GREAT baccalaureate degre
e course or technical vocational course in public or private educational institu
tions are obliged to undergo one of three program components for an academic per
iod of two semesters. The students, however, are free to choose which particular
program component to take. The three NSTP Program components are:[2]
Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
This program component is designed to provide students with activities contribut
ory to the general welfare and betterment of life of the members of the communit
y especially those developed to improve social welfare services.
Literacy Training Service (LTS)
This program component is designed to train students in teaching literacy and nu
meracy skills to schoolchildren and out-of-school youths.
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)
This program component is designed to provide military education and training fo
r students to mobilize them for national defense preparedness.
Graduates of the ROTC program component are organized into the Citizen Armed For
ce, while graduates of the LTS and CWTS program components are organized into th
e National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) administered by the Department of Nation
al Defense, the Commission on Higher Education and Technical Education and Skill
s Development Authority.

Precedent
President Manuel Quezon controlled the National Assembly which enacted the Natio
nal Defense Act of 1935
President Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 1706 in 1980
There have been several legal precedents to the National Service Training Progra
m (NSTP) Act of 2001. These include:
Commonwealth Act No. 1
Main article: National Defense Act of 1935
Commonwealth Act No. 1, otherwise known as the "National Defense Act", was enact
ed by the National Assembly of the Philippines on 21 December 1935. It provided
for obligatory military service for all male citizens of ages between 18 and 30.
Presidential Decree No. 1706
Presidential Decree No. 1706, otherwise known as the "National Service Law", was
signed by President Ferdinand Marcos on 8 August 1980. It made national service
obligatory for all Filipino citizens and specified three categories of national
service: civic welfare service, law enforcement service and military service.
Republic Act 7077
Republic Act 7077, otherwise known as the "Citizen Armed Forces of the Philippin
es Reservist Act", was enacted by the 8th Congress of the Philippines on 27 June
1991. The Reservist Act provided for organization, training and utilization of
reservists, referred to in the Act as "Citizen Soldiers". The primary pool of ma
npower for the reservist organization are graduates of the Reserve Officers' Tra
ining Corps basic and advance courses.

Statistics
According to the Commission on Higher Education, over a ten-year period from 200
2-2012 the CWTS component has produced 8,614,000 graduates, the highest among th
e three NSTP components. This is followed by the ROTC component, with 1,435,000
AFP reservists and the LTS component with 538,700 graduates

A. Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)

Refers to the program component designed to provide military training in order t
o motivate, train, organize and mobilize students for national defense preparedn
ess.
B. Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
Refers to the program component or activities contributory to the general welfar
e and betterment of life for the members of the community or the enhancement of
its facilities, especially those devoted to improving health, education, environ
ment, entrepreneurship, safety, recreation and moral of the citizenry.
C. Literacy Training Service (LTS)
Refers to the program component designed to train students to teach literacy and
numeracy skills to school children, out-of-school youth and other segments of s
ociety in need of their service.

My role as a student in the implementation of NSTP

promote the common good, conserve our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our
posterity, the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law
Filipino people stands by what they believed are right and can r
esult to the betterment of the society. NSTP is one proof that we cared. Giving
students a chance to show what we can do, and how we can make a change to the pr
oblems that all the people are commonly dealing with, is one of the aims of the
NSTP.
I do believe in what Dr. Jose P. Rizal said KABATAAN ANG PAG-ASA NG BAYAN , that s no
t debatable, for we know that that is true. And as one of the entrusted youth, I
have to take responsibility and be active in whatever things I can do with my a
bility to be of service not just to my fellow countrymen but to the nation.
GOOD EDUCATION: I am proud to be a Filipino citizen, for Filipin
os are very different from the other race, kind, hospitable, and respectable. A
s a student I can prove and I can show what I can do to help others specially th
ose who are in need.
DRUG EDUCATION: Drug addicts, are very rampant nowadays, and it s
very sad to say that most of the population addicted to drugs are youth. We can t
blame anyone or them why they indulged in that thing, but we can still help them
by giving them proper education and teaching them what drugs can do to their he
alth, since I am a student, we can impart our knowledge to those who are lacking
guidance and knowledge about this thing.
NATIONAL SECURITY: Not only those people carrying guns are respo
nsible to stop possible crimes, even it is a small or big crime, we have to take
part of it, even how little it just is to solve the problem or we prevent it in
the least way we can do. That s why we are sent to school to earn courage to face
things and be educated of what is right and wrong, so why be scared?
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: Nothing is constant in this world exce
pt change. We are living on a changing world, from paradise to a world gradually

becoming a wasteland. The paradise was left to us to be taken care of, not to b
e destroyed, but since we can t undone the things that we had done in the past few
millennia we can still prevent the total destruction that may happen, by suppor
ting and be an active member of the CLEAN AND GREEN program of the government an
d do the things that can still save mother earth like putting the proper garbage
in the proper trash can, planting of trees, etc.
DISASTER AWARENESS, PREPAREDNESS AND MANAGEMENT: As what I said
earlier, we are changing in all aspects, and as we change the world change, and
we suffer more violent reactions from mother earth, that s why as early as now, a
college freshmen, we should be prepared in whatever ways, cause we don t know what
will happen in the future or even in a little span of time.