Determining and resolving in any emergency on the national territory, their main task was and continues to be, to operate on the front line to open gates in the opponent's defensive works and at the same time delay their advance; the men and women of the Arma del Genio celebrate today the Victory of the Battle of the Piave, which took place 102 years ago, to whose favorable results their predecessors contributed decisively, demonstrating great audacity and boldness.
Even today their irreplaceable work is esteemed both in international operations, where the staff of the Engineers have the opportunity to be appreciated for their high competence and professionalism especially in the field of defusing explosive devices (Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Lebanon, Iraq are only a part of the missions in which their contribution was decisive), both in relief operations for populations affected by natural disasters on the national territory, where the Army's military genius has given ample proof of its ability with the intervention in areas affected by the 2016 earthquake in Central Italy.
In addition, in the latest Covid-19 emergency, the Corps of Engineers has contributed, with the broad spectrum of its functions, to containing and contrasting the spread of the virus and guaranteeing the performance of essential activities for our country, providing its support in rail transport in Emilia Romagna, in the infrastructural adaptation of the "Celio" military hospital, for the establishment of a 120-bed Covid Hospital Hub, in the setting up of the field hospitals, as well as in the uninterrupted remediation of dangerous explosive devices explosives, which are found daily in our area.
An incessant work conducted with modesty and pragmatic industriousness, which makes the men and women of the Weapon of Genius, undisputed specialists and resolvers, on the ever increasing occasions, in which their intervention is required.
Their professionalism is testified by the Italian Army Center of Excellence Counter IED (Improvised Explosive Device), the only national center for training, training, doctrinal development and testing of materials and equipment peculiar to the CMD (Conventional Munitions) sectors. Disposal) and Counter IED, which every year trains and trains specialists belonging to all the Armed Forces and Police Forces.
The Arma del Genio, with its four specialties Pioneers, Pontieri, Ferrovieri and Guastatori and its regiments scattered throughout Italy, is an essential and versatile pawn of the Italian Army which, in addition to its operational use in international missions, is capable of to intervene in cases of public calamity and utility, at any time, throughout the national territory in support of the community.
