Editing Armed Forces of the Philippines (section)

===Five-star rank===
{{Main|Field Marshal of the Philippines}}
President [[Ferdinand Marcos]], who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965 to 1967 and 1971 to 1972), issued an order conferring the [[Five-star rank|five-star officer]] rank to the [[President of the Philippines]], making himself as its first rank holder.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} Since then, the rank of five-star general/admiral became an honorary rank of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces whenever a new president assumes office for a six-year term, thus making the President the most senior military official.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.op.gov.ph/museum/pres_marcos.asp |title=Ferdinand E. Marcos |access-date=September 30, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080804093918/http://www.op.gov.ph/museum/pres_marcos.asp |archive-date=August 4, 2008 }}, Malacañang Museum.</ref>

The only career military officer who reached the rank of five-star general/admiral ''[[de jure]]'' was President [[Fidel V. Ramos]] (USMA 1950) (president from 1992 to 1998) who rose from second lieutenant up to commander-in-chief of the armed forces.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.op.gov.ph/museum/pres_ramos.asp |title=Fidel V. Ramos |access-date=April 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430170805/http://www.op.gov.ph/museum/pres_ramos.asp |archive-date=April 30, 2008 }}{{failed verification|date=May 2010}}, Malacañang Museum.</ref>

[[General of the Army (United States)|General of the Army]] [[Douglas MacArthur]] was also made [[Field Marshal of the Philippines|Field Marshal]] of the [[Philippine Army]] with five-star rank in 1938, the only person to hold that rank. [[Emilio Aguinaldo]], the first [[President of the Philippines]], holds an equivalent of five-star general under the title ''[[Generalissimo]]'' and [[Marshal|Minister/Field Marshal]] as the first commander-in-chief of the AFP.

The position is honorary and may be granted to any military officer, especially generals or admirals who had significant contributions and showed heroism, only in times of war and national defense concerns and emergencies. The highest peacetime rank is that of four-star general which is being held only by the AFP Chief of Staff. However, no law specifically establishes the rank of five-star general in the Armed Forces of the Philippines unlike in the United States and other countries.