A recent Pulse Asia survey question commissioned by a senator reveals 78 percent agree to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) being mandatory in college, with a similar percentage being for it because it fosters discipline. Some online reactions questioned why the public at large and not just affected students, were asked their opinion, which reveals a limited understanding of how policy is arrived at or even a sense of broader national community. One possibility is that the question reveals the relative high regard in which the armed forces are held, an opinion demonstrated in a Social Weather Stations survey in 2019 when 79 percent of respondents had high trust in the military.

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