This paper studies the daily lives of those hundreds of men from different areas of New Spain (and even other areas of the Indian space) that were ostracized and sent periodically from the port of Acapulco (New Spain) to the Philippines and the island of Luzon, where they worked as soldiers in the King fixed regiment for a period of eight years because they had deserted from the militia, committed a some misdemeanor or simply were considered “vagos”,”ociosos” and “malentretenidos”. Most of these individuals who integrated one battalion of 400 members had been prisoners in the jail of “La Acordada” and in the Royal Court Jail (located in Mexico City) or people “sin oficio conocido” (without known occupation) that had been captured in cam carried out by the mayors of the towns and villages of central New Spain. Also deserters who had fled from the various existing military posts in New Spain, the Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Havana) or the Iberian Peninsula were sent to the Philipines. In general, it was required that such individuals were white, sturdy and “good fit” and have not committed crimes “despicable” and “shameful.”