For over two years now, versatile actor Dingdong Dantes has served as a member of the Reserve Force of the Philippine Marines with the rank of Master Sergeant. Recently, he went with the Third Technical Service Battalion for a socio-civic service (medical mission-community service) in Jolo, Sulu.  He confesses that he would have been a military officer had he not been lured to show business. His grandfather is formerly a brigadier general in the Philippine Constabulary.