Of his martial law record, Primitivo Mijares has this for Ramos: "In the military, I could only point out to Major General Fidel V. Ramos, Constabulary chief, as the only relatively clean ranking officer of the armed forces."[REF] .
When belittled by the press regarding his combat record, Ramos responded with trademark sarcasm (July 31, 1987):I fought the communists as part of the battalion combat teams, I went up the ladder.