By Froilan Gallardo, Special Correspondent . PRESIDENT Duterte has appointed the commander of the 4th Infantry Division to be the chief of the Army. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed the appointment of Major General Andres Centino as the new chief of the Army in Manila last night. Centino Centino Duterte signed the appointment on May 14 but the official announcement was only made last night. Centino is the 47th commander of the 4th Infantry “Diamond” Division that covers Misamis Oriental Camiguin, Bukidnon, Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Sur and Surigao del Sur, and Dinagat Island province. He commanded four Army Brigades—the 401st, 402nd, 403rd and the 901st—to fight the largest concentration of New Peoples Army in Mindanao. Centino employs the strategy of setting up forward military bases in the mountain ranges to disrupt the operational command and logistics of the communist rebels. Belonging to the Philippine Military Academy “Maringal” Class of 1988, Centino is a graduate of Master of Science in Natural Resource Strategy at the National Defense University, Washington DC. Centino hails from Tacloban City, Leyte and rose ranks with the Army Scout rangers.