The importance of the exercise aimed at maintaining operating efficiency in any circumstance is well expressed in the training effort that the "Garibaldi" Bersaglieri brigade is carrying out under the command of General Nicola Terzano.
Besides military 200 and 50 vehicles between tracked and rotated of the "Garibaldi" bersaglieri brigade took part last week, in a training event, diversified in terms of conduct and type of deployed assets, oriented to the achievement of a single objective: the maintenance of operational capabilities of the "heavy multi-pack maneuver brigade" in the FSOs (Full Spectrum Operations). From the beginning of the year, in fact, taking advantage of the great capacities made available by the District of Persano, the "Garibaldi" began a series of cyclical training activities with the rotating involvement of all its assets. These activities are carried out in line with the new structure of the Army which has imposed the updating of its organization in order to reach the standards required by the new "operating concept" of the brigade level, that is, to train "organisms" with a modular structure with maximum operational and logistic autonomy.
Careful planning, speed of action, integration, perfect coordination and self-sufficiency, these are the characteristics expressed by the departments employed on the structure Fighting, Combat Service e Combat Service Support, including cells of the brigade command and unity of the command department and tactical supports that have deployed and activated a tactical command post for managing WAR scenario operations.
Several activities were carried out simultaneously in the training areas of the District of Persano in a two-day event full of events. Inside the rural village, a specially recreated area for training operations in urban areas, in a simulated environment CRO (Crisis Response Operation - Crisis Response Operation), unit IEDD (Improvised Explosive Device Disposal - Improvised Improvised Explosive Devices) of the 21 ° genius guastatori, have been employed in the reclamation of improvised explosive devices with the safety frame guaranteed by the bersaglieri of the 8 ° regiment.
In parallel, in the so-called "Box Manoeuvre"Or maneuvering box, the 19th Guides cavalry regiment of Salerno has deployed a command post engaged in the planning, organization and conduct of an exercise at an integrated minor complex level (in a WAR scenario, or high intensity of combat), nuclei of assets exploring, Advanced Combact-Engineer Reconnaissance Team (ACRT) of the 21 ° regiment genius guastatori, nuclei of Surveillance Acquisition of Visual Objectives (SAOV) of the 8 ° "Pasubio" artillery regiment, crews of the 4 wagon regiment up Ram and an infantry platoon of the 8 ° Bersaglieri regiment.
The exercise called "Black Shadow", Saw the advancement of the assets, of the integrated minor complex, within an Area of Operations in the WAR environment, in order to test and acquire information on the location, size, nature, attitude and movement of the" enemy ".
The simulated "activations" (that is, the possible activities that the enemy can use to his advantage in a real scenario) have allowed the exercised to field the abilities of the IEDD assets of the engineers with the reclamation of anti-tank mines, those exploring the guides used aboard VBL Puma and busway Centaur, the mobile fire capacity expressed by Ram of the 4 ° floats, reserve of the device, with the intervention of two crews employed in the neutralization of the enemy artillery and supported in the action of shooting by the SAOV nuclei of the 8 ° Artillery. At the end of the fire action, in the final phase of the exercise, the 8 ° sharpshooters were engaged in mopping up activities, in order to declare "clear", that is, clean, the area and allow the maneuver to continue insecurity. At the end of the exercise also the simulation of a medical evacuation in favor of personnel on board one of the armored vehicles Centaur. The driver of the vehicle, not seriously injured during the firefight, received the first assistance from the crew members, was immobilized and extracted to allow the usual stabilization procedures performed by specialized personnel (military nurses and units with enabling SO - Health Assistant).
Any type of intervention, even in the case of exercises, requires the development of all phases for the conduct of a military operation, among which the importance of the logistic support structures should not be forgotten, which is why in a dedicated area called "Ogliastri" , the "Garibaldi" logistic regiment, set up one Service area at company level that has carried out maintenance, refueling and provisioning activities in favor of all the personnel trained with the use of a field kitchen by 500 rations.
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