With the end of the landing operations and the start of the first logistic-training integration activities at the National Training Center (CENAD) in the "San Gregorio" area in Zaragoza, the deployment for the "Toro 2019" exercise was completed , which will see assets of the "Pinerolo" brigade and the 82nd "Torino" infantry regiment employed alongside colleagues in the "Aragon I" brigade of the Spanish Army, under TACON (tactical control) of the Castillejo division.
The main purpose of this important training event is to improve the integration level of the Units and to test the interoperability of the command and control services and systems in Italy (SIACCON ADV) and Spanish (SIMANET) through the Military Interoperability Program (MIP), in order to allow the vision of the Common Operational Picture to Italian and Spanish units, refining both the procedures to be implemented in the Command posts and the procedures for using the units.
The training event represents an important test bench for the complex drafting of technical-logistic-administrative agreements between the parts that have become necessary for the phase, just ended, of deployment need redeployment of assets deployed across the border.
The exercise on the basis of bilateral agreements and an intense activity of cooperation and friendship between the two countries will end with a livex of Gruppo Tattico, with the use of a pluriarma Task Force and Command Post that will operate in an integrated manner in a scenario of guy war-fighting.
The "TORO 2019" will see 20 Italian Army soldiers working on the ground for about 450 days flanked by Spanish soldiers of the "Aragon I" brigade using VBM "Freccia", VBM "Freccia" 120 mm mortar holder, VTLM “Lince”, VTMM “Bear”, FH70 howitzers, as well as Force Protectione assets for surveillance of the battlefield.
In the next few days, the first activities of amalgamation and amalgamation will begin between the Italian and Spanish departments that will see the soldiers of the "Pinerolo" involved in an intense training cycle.
