Italian Air Force: 2025 Calendar presented in Milan at the Pirelli Tower

(To air Force)
28/10/24

A “high-altitude” presentation of the 2025 Air Force Calendar. It was in fact the Jannacci Belvedere, on the 31st floor of the Pirelli skyscraper in Milan, the location chosen to preview and present yesterday evening – in the presence of the Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force, Air Force General Luca Goretti – the pages that will accompany the twelve months of next year, through exclusive photos taken by the Armed Forces during operational missions, training activities and unrepeatable moments in the life of the Armed Forces.

The event, moderated and hosted by journalist and well-known TV personality Monica Bertini, saw the participation of numerous guests and military and civil authorities including the commander of the newly established command of the air squad – 1st Air Region of Milan, Gen. Alberto Biavati. Opening the event and illustrating the concept of the AM 2025 calendar was the head of the 5th “Communication” department of the Air Force General Staff, Brigadier General Urbano Floreani who highlighted: “Twelve pages in which iconic shots of the aircraft and personnel of the Armed Forces are combined with an equal number of 'motivational' phrases to immediately make evident the founding values ​​that have characterized the daily actions of the Air Force for over a hundred years, with constant attention to history and tradition but at the same time with an eye always projected towards the challenges of the future”.

Following, men and women of the Air Force, including the commander of the Frecce Tricolori, Lieutenant Colonel Massimiliano Salvatore, astronaut Colonel Walter Villadei and the team of the Farfalle azzurre, together with testimonials and well-known faces from the world of sport, culture and social issues - including the well-known sports journalist Guido Meda, Alessandro Costacurta former footballer and television commentator, the athlete of the Paralympic sports group of the Defense, bronze medalist in the foil at Paris 2024, Loredana Trigilia, the educator and founder of PizzAut, Nico Acampora, the non-profit organization that has been committed to supporting autistic children for years - took turns on stage to comment on the individual shots and the value messages associated with each page.

The Chief of Staff of the Air Force wanted to underline in his speech at the end of the evening: “This year we strongly wanted to present the Air Force Calendar here in Milan, in this suggestive location. Milan represents a very important place for us, right at the beginning of the month we inaugurated in this important city one of our high commands, the nerve center of all the operational activities of the Air Force: the air team command - 1st air region. We did it because we are very tied to this city and this Region and we are sure that we will continue to work well together also in the future”.

Referring then to the AM 2025 Calendar, General Goretti wanted to underline: “These photos, and the power of the messages that the words and phrases that accompany them are able to convey, are intended to be an immediate synthesis of the values, ideals, modernity, skills and abilities of those who know how to concretely carry out their role as leaders in the aerospace sector, in support of the entire Defense sector and, more generally, of the country system”.

General Goretti finally concluded by saying: “We continue to maintain our values ​​as the guiding stars of daily action, to deliver to the generations that will follow us an Armed Forces that is increasingly relevant, attentive and determined to write new glorious pages of history.”

Like every year, thanks to the collaboration with Giunti Editore, the distribution of the 2025 Calendar will take place through the widespread network of bookstores, with over 270 GIUNTI AL PUNTO points of sale, making it available throughout Italy to enthusiasts and the wider public. The publishing project was promoted by Difesa Servizi which, for some time now, has inaugurated a new path of valorization of the Armed Forces calendars for the diffusion of the culture of Defense.

The 2025 AM Calendar will also be on sale on the official Amazon store of the Italian Air Force www.amazon.it/aeronauticamilitare. You can review the presentation of the AM 2025 Calendar on the official YouTube channel of the Italian Air Force (https://www.youtube.com/@AeronauticaMilitareOfficial )