Opportunity for comparison between two generations of sailors

17/04/14

At the end of the stop in the port of Livorno, the three corvettes of the Navy Chimera, Fenice and Sphinx headed, with a southern route, to return to the Augusta base. The 264 ^ Naval Command School Session starts at the end.

The break in the city of Labronica represented an opportunity to meet and exchange between two generations of "Sailors".

The cadets of the Naval Academy of Livorno, who on this occasion embarked for the first time on a "Gray Ship", were able to witness the tactical conduct and the defense of the units, maneuvering the ships in first person, under the watchful guidance of their "older brothers", the patrons of the Scuola Comando.

During an outing at sea, right in front of the Naval Academy, there was an exercise that was used to show the students the techniques of self-protection, defense procedures and the tactics of contrasting ships, simulating to navigate with maximum realism in one crisis scenario.

Even the lunch time was not spared to the scenario: the students, as well as the crews, have experienced the "Action Mess": the operational canteen that provides for the consumption of a meal, in rotation among all the crew members, in just seven minutes, so as to ensure the full operational capacity of the ship without interruption.

After saying goodbye to the students who were returning to the Academy, Nave Sfinge, Nave Fenice and Nave Chimera began to head towards Augusta (SR), thus preparing to conclude their commitment in the "264 session" of the "Naval Command School".

Among the most delicate maneuvers carried out in recent days, the chairlift, a staff passage between two units side by side using a car seat that runs on a cable stretched from two ships sailing parallel in close formation, at a distance of about 30 meters.

Source: Military Navy