Change at the top of the 186th "Folgore" parachute regiment

(To "Folgore" Brigade)
11/11/21

The changeover ceremony in command between Colonel Federico Bernacca and Colonel Massimo Veggetti took place at the “Bandini” barracks, headquarters of the 186th Folgore Parachute Regiment.

All the civil, military and religious authorities of the city of Siena took part in the ceremony, presided over by the commander of the Paratroopers Brigade Folgore, Brigadier General Roberto Vergori, as well as the magistrate of the Contrade representing them.

Colonel Bernacca, in his farewell speech, after having remembered the Fallen of all time, underlined the constant commitment and professionalism of the men and women of the 186th parachute regiment who in these over two years under his employment, have been employed both in the national territory with the operation Safe Roads and in activities related to the current health emergency, and to employment outside the national territory with particular reference to the operation Resolute Support in Afghanistan.

There was no shortage of thanks to all the local institutions and the Sienese citizens who, in this period, have always shown closeness to the regiment and to the families of its paratroopers.

Colonel Bernacca will take up a new post at the Defense Staff in Rome. Colonel Veggetti, who comes from the division command Vittorio Veneto of Florence, will be the seventeenth commander of the 186th parachute regiment thunderbolt where he has already served from 2002 to 2007.