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(General Fabian Ver (left) with President Ferdinand Marcos)
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Ver grew up in the town of Sarrat in Ilocos Norte, the town where President Ferdinand Marcos was born in 1917.
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Ver attended the University of the Philippines and was an alumnus of its reserve program. He also joined the UP Vanguard in 1941. However, the outbreak of World War II disrupted his studies. After the war, he resumed his studies at the University of Manila where he obtained a Bachelor of Law degree and later at the University of Louisville where he graduated with a degree in police administration in 1963. He also undertook training in Hawaii and with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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During World War II, he acted as a guerrilla intelligence officer with the rank of third lieutenant and after the war, he went on in the military service. During Ferdinand Marcos' term as Senate President in the early 1960s, he was one of his military advisers. He was at that time serving in the Criminal Investigation Service of the Philippine Constabulary (present day the Philippine National Police) with the rank of captain.
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Ver remained captain for 11 years until newly elected President Ferdinand E. Marcos made him his chief bodyguard in 1965.
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Within five years, Ver rose to General and later headed the National Intelligence and Security Administration (NISA), the present day National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, wielding more power than any other military officer. 
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Ver was described by former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile in his autobiography as a "Man of Marcos" through and through. Ver's loyalty to Marcos is unflinching, so has been Marcos' public support of Ver.
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One tale is how Marcos decided once to test Ver and asked him to jump out a window of the presidential palace.
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"Yes, sir",  Ver reportedly replied, "What floor?"
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Ver was the most trusted military officer of President Marcos as <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/627/today-in-philippine-history-on-september-21-1972-president-ferdinand-e-marcos-placed-the-philippines-under-martial-law" class="news_link">Martial Law was declared on September 21, 1972</a>.  He was also known as one of Marcos' chief enforcers of Martial Law and commanding general of the Presidential Security Group, then known as the Presidential Security Command or PSC that was tasked to secure Marcos and his family. 
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When he was due for retirement in 1976, Marcos extended his term indefinitely. 
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President Marcos named him AFP Chief of Staff in 1981.
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January 20, 1920: Fabian Ver, Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff under President Marcos, was born