There are fifty-five new Navy Fusiliers "bascati" in the Piazza d'Armi of the Swabian Castle of Brindisi.
In front of about 300 guests, in the presence of the commander of the San Marco marine brigade, Rear Admiral Cesare Bruno Petragnani, the riflemen were given the beret with the frieze of the Navy on a red background, a formal act that formalizes the transition of status from pupil to rifleman . The throw in a basket of the old cap, called "stupid", enshrines the transformation from student rifleman to "Leone" of San Marco.
The 13th amphibious training course lasted two months during which the character and aptitude of the aspiring rifleman were evaluated through ground combat training, topographic marches, instruction in the use of weapons, conditioning. physical, military hand-to-hand combat, amphibious indoctrination with the use of wheeled and tracked amphibious vehicles, pneumatic boats, helicopters, the study of communications with radio equipment and defense against the threat Chemical, Bacteriological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN).
Every day a new notion, every day the weight of psychophysical fatigue. It is during the course that the instructors of the Scuole Caorle battalion, with their experience, begin to impress the basic notions that will allow the student to become a rifleman, a "Lion" of the Navy.
The ceremony, held in the castle's parade ground, gave way to the family members and guests taking part in the milestone reached by the 55 neo bascati of San Marco, today soldiers at the height of the activities they will have to carry out in their future as Rifiliere di Marina.
