Adeluis Bordado

Vice Admiral Adeluis Santelices Bordado is a Filipino retired Admiral who served as the Flag Officer in-Command of the Philippine Navy from 8 June 2021 to 8 September 2022. Prior to his post, he served as the vice commander of the Philippine Navy, the Chief of Naval Staff and the AFP Education, Training and Doctrine Command (AFPETDC). He is a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy "Maringal" Class of 1988.

On June 8, 2021, Bordado assumed his post as the 39th Flag Officer in-Command of the Philippine Navy, replacing Vice Admiral Giovanni Bacordo. As the Chief of the Philippine Navy, he vows to continue his predecessor's programs through "continuity and change" and also affirms his plans to upgrade the navy's education and training systems to boost the Navy's competence. He earned his third star and was promoted to the rank of vice admiral in July 2021.

Bordado was promoted to rank of commodore in 2017, and served as the commander of the Sealift Amphibious Force; commander of Naval Forces Southern Luzon; and commander of the Naval Installation Command. He earned his second star and was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in 2019, and served as the commander of Armed Forces of the Philippines Education, Training and Doctrine Command (AFPETDC); the Chief of Naval Staff, the third highest post of the navy in May 2020; and as the vice commander, Philippine Navy, the navy's second highest post, in December 2020.

After graduating the PMA, Admiral Bordado took various courses locally and abroad, such as the Naval Officers Qualification Course (NOQC) ‘A’ , at the Fort San Felipe, where he graduated as the Top 1 of his class; the Foreign Officer Supplementary List Executive Course (FOSLEX) at the Royal Australian Naval College, HMAS Creswell in New South Wales, Australia; the Basic Airborne Course (BAC Class 77–96) at the Naval Special Forces School in Naval Base Cavite; the Naval Command and Staff Course (NCSC Class 44) at the Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) in Zambales; the Naval Intelligence Officer's Course (NIOC Class 58) at the Naval Intelligence Training Institute (NITI); the AFP Comptrollership Course 14; Command at Sea Course 3–06 at the Navy's Fleet Training Center; and the Command and General Staff Course Class 48 at the Armed Forces of the Philippines Command and General Staff College. He also studied at the Naval Command College (NCC 2012) at United States Naval War College (USNWC), and the Combined Forces Maritime Component Commander (CFMCC Course 19-1c) at the Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Vice Admiral Bordado was commissioned as an ensign after his graduation at the PMA in 1988, and is described as a well-rounded officer, as he was assigned to various positions in the Philippine Navy and in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, relatively in naval squadrons, naval operations, intelligence, information technology, budgeting, operational planning, and education and training positions. He held his first command-at-sea position as he skippered the BRP Fort San Felipe (AM-700), a signals intelligence (SIGINT) ship of the Naval Intelligence and Security Force. He also skippered the RPS Explorer, a research vessel of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the BRP Rajah Humabon (PS-11), the Philippine Navy's former flagship.

Vice Admiral Bordado was born at San Roque, Calabanga, Camarines Sur on 9 September 1966. He is a son of a family of a public school teacher, and is the third child of his six siblings. He entered the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in 1984, and graduated as the Top 4 of the "Maringal" Class of 1988.