A national fair dedicated to guidance, education, training and work: the largest in Italy. It is the Job & Orienta, held in Verona and in which the Defense Staff took part for the fifth consecutive year with an exhibition stand.
"Learning by working: in Italy you can"The slogan of this 26 ^ edition. To explain the reasons for the presence of Defense at the Salone, Captain Giuseppe Provenza, head of training and security office 85, Verona Regiment: "The reasons for participation are different. The first is to know, through the questions to the personnel of the Armed Forces present, what are the tasks and the role of Defense in the country. The story of the professionals' experience at the stand and the explanation of how much the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Carabinieri do in everyday life for Italians often amaze students or their own carers or family members. Moreover the possibility of finding a role or a profession in line with one's own expectations, pushes children to ask for information on enrollment. The idea of imagining themselves with a 'uniform' on them arises in many of them right here ".
An exhibition area, the Defense area, where it was possible to observe vehicles, materials, equipment in use both in the national territory, in competition with the police or to help the population, and abroad, in peace support operations. Positive feedback from students: regardless of the idea or the reason that prompted them to approach the stand of the General Staff, they were curious and precise in their questions. "The attitude towards men and women with stars that talk to them also changes; they begin to respect them for what they do and what they represent. And for many of them they also become a model, a goal to aspire to ”added Captain Provence.
The presence of Defense in a context of orientation and work can be considered as a new way of looking at the military, on the other hand, Provence added: "The Armed Forces are a force and a resource for the country. The presence in every sphere of protecting the safety of citizens, in Italy or abroad, the aid to populations in difficulty at all times and everywhere, confirm that ours is a life mission. But precisely for this reason, those who want gratification, sacrifice and usefulness from their professional future are driven to choose us. In the Armed Forces one must learn by working: those who want us will do it. "
