Undersecretary Tofalo meets the Comsubin operators

(To Massimiliano Rizzo)
07/10/18

The Undersecretary of State for Defense met in recent days the special forces operators of the Underwater Grouping and Navy Raiders (Comsubin). Leading him on the fact-finding visit was the Chief of Staff of the Navy Admiral Valter Girardelli.

"Capacity, flexibility and operational and logistic autonomy make this department a very effective tool in the management of very critical situations", Said Undersecretary Tofalo,"I met highly skilled professionals who are able to guarantee very high operating standards thanks to a very hard, selective and in-depth training".

And then Tofalo adds that "to maximize the capacity of this niche of excellence of the Navy, it can not be excluded that in the near future there may be an opening towards the civilian underwater sector where the Comsubin could establish itself as a certification body by virtue of its high specialization".

From the Comsubin depend on the Operating Group Incursori (GOI), which is the only department of Special Forces of the Navy heir of the men of the Navy Assault Means; the Underwater Operating Group (GOS), the department in charge of which the divers are placed, the divers with the most powerful diving skills, the result of a tradition resident in the Navy for over 160 years; the Research Department, the beating heart of the technological development of the materials and means used by the men of the Operating Groups; the Schools Group, subdivided into Diving Schools, Incursors and Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, which in addition to selecting and training the new divers, Incursori, Doctors and Nurses, has the task of training the divers of all the Armed Forces and Police Corps of the state; the Naval Special Group, to which dependencies are placed three Naval Units (Aneto, Pedretti and Marino) that have been designed to provide the underwater support to the staff of the Operational Groups and the Schools of Comsubin; the Headquarters of the Grouping, which ensures the services and the maintenance of the efficiency of the Command in order to allow the aforementioned Groups to fulfill their mission.

At the end of the visit, Undersecretary Tofalo thanked all the specialists "for the work done to Italy" and then underlined that "ensure that every citizen understands the importance of supporting those who risk their daily life for collective security. This objective can be achieved with a good action to spread the culture of defense and security".