The Alpine troops are the military whose peculiarity is to move, operate and fight in the mountains. And the combat skills in the winter mountain environment were the scenario of the “Blue Eagle” exercise.
To operate, in defense on the snowy ground, many departments, men of the 8th Alpini, the 3rd artillery, the Piedmont Cavalry (2 °) of the task force Altair of the Army Air Force, of the 41st of Cordenons and the special forces of the 4th Alpine Parachute Regiment.
The Alpine troops intervened to neutralize the intended enemy (in fiction) to sabotage an aqueduct. The firefight, the helicopters' intervention, the handling of the wounded on the field showed the abilities of the Alpini in the third millennium to the top of the Army and to the local administrators who arrived in Misurina.
Men forged by training and fatigue (they slept for over 30 days in tents at high altitude to prepare for the activity) who still today, like their Fathers and their grandparents, have the main tactical and moral training ground in the mountain and its rules .
Present at the ceremony was the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Army General Salvatore Farina who complimented the preparation demonstrated in the field by his staff.
The mayor of Auronzo Tatiana Pais Becher observed the war, however simulated, on its territory.
The morning exercise was a prelude to the twin "White Wolf".
As the first showed the military's operational capability to operate in the mountains, the second will verify their integration into the relief system.
Another challenge to face.
