Background
Ermita, Eduardo R. was born on July 13, 1935 in Balayan, Bantangas, Philippines.
Philippine government official
Ermita, Eduardo R. was born on July 13, 1935 in Balayan, Bantangas, Philippines.
Special Forces Course, Fort Bonifacio, 1963. Command and General Staff Course, Fort Bonifacio, 1974. Defense Resource Management Course, Naval Post-Graduate School, Monterey, California, 1979.
Student, Airborne School, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States of America.
Ermita took his Defense Resource Management Course at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, United States.A. from 1978–1979. Command and General Staff Course, Fort Bonifacio, 1974. Unit Psychological Officers Course, Kennedy Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States.A., 1970–1971.
Special forces Course, Fort Magsaysay, 1962–1963.
Counterintelligence Course, Special Intelligence School, Fort Boniofacio, 1962. Airborne School, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.A., 1961.
Ranger School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1960-1961. Ermita was a three-term congressman representing the first district of Batangas from 1992-2001.
He was appointed on October 3, 2003 as Secretary of National Defense.
He is the provincial chairman of LAKAS-CMD in Batangas and Regional chairman of Lakas CMD in CALABARZON since 1992. He was the Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines during the series of coup attempts from 1986 to 1988, and Undersecretary of National defense during the last major coup attempt in December 1989. Head of the Special Information group during the EDSA People Power Revolution in February 1986.
President, Philippine Military Academy Alumni Association, 1986–1988
Ermita is married to the former Elvira Ramos from Dipolog City with whom he has four children.
Member of Committee on National Defense, 9th Congress and 10th Congress (senior vice-chairman 1992-1998), Special Committee on the Peace Process and Integration, 10th Congress (chairman 1995-1998).
Married Elvira Ramos. 4 children.