98th anniversary of the establishment of the Air Force

(To air Force)
30/03/21

It was the evocative historic site of Palazzo Aeronautica that was the setting for the celebrations for the 98th anniversary of the establishment of the Air Force, officially born as an autonomous and independent Armed Force on March 28, 1923, with Royal Decree No. 645.

The special anniversary was celebrated during an event in a reduced and contained form and in full compliance with the anti-Covid rules, in which the oath and baptism of the course also took place at the same time. Boreas VI of the Air Force Academy of Pozzuoli, an official and mandatory act with which every soldier swears allegiance and assumes a formal commitment to the Flag.

For the occasion, all the flags of war and institute of the flocks, departments and bodies of the Air Force, symbols of the traditions and values ​​of these 98 years of history, together with the historic banner of 1923, were exceptionally gathered at the "Hall of Heroes" of Palazzo AM, which this year marks the 90th anniversary of the official inauguration, as it happened in April 1937, on the eve of the handover of the flags to the flocks of the Regia Aeronautica.

A suitably reduced ceremony but with a high symbolic and institutional value, testifying to the continuity of that heritage of values, passion and identity of the Armed Force, today more than ever essential for contributing, together with other civil and military institutions, to national security and of the community, while expressing all the capabilities of aero-space power in support of the country's military instrument.