CAMP EVANGELISTA, Cagayan de Oro City: Fifteen former members of the communist New People's Army (NPA) are now full fledge soldiers, the military said on Thursday.

Maj. Francisco Garello Jr., chief of the Army's Division of Public Affairs, said that the 15 former rebels surrendered on separate occasions and are among the 281 new soldiers of the Army's Fourth Infantry Division (ID) here.

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