A female Army captain today directed a fire drill with individual and departmental weapons in which seventy marshals of the Officers' School of Viterbo.
Dora di Camillo, thirty-five years old originally from Caserta, transmission officer is the commander of the fifth company, the unit that has now trained to use the latest generation Beretta ARX assault rifle, the 40 mm grenade launcher. GLX, MINIMI machine gun and 60mm mortar.
"I feel fully aware of the responsibilities of commander" - said the captain of Camillo - "the fact of being a woman at the top of a purely male team does not create me any difficulty".
The future army marshals alternate on the shooting line wearing the equipment provided. Their captain observes, corrects, comments on each stage of the training.
"What counts in my work is professionalism, enthusiasm" - continues di Camillo - "elements that together with feminine sensitivity facilitate my assignment".
There are also five students in Dora's company. "With them I have an excellent relationship, but even in this case no difference in treatment. The objective is to prepare us to the best to face the difficulties of a profession, that of weapons, laboriously exciting ".
