Change of name: command and tactical support department "Cavalleggeri di Treviso" (28th)

(To Staff)
05/10/22

At the end of a journey that began last September 29 in Rome with the surrender of honors by the Army Chief of Staff, Corps General Pietro Serino, Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Pastore, yesterday received the banner assigned to the command and tactical support department of the “Pozzuolo del Friuli” cavalry brigade, now called the “Cavalleggeri di Treviso (28 °)” command and tactical support department.

The Army, in the name of continuity and by virtue of the ideal bond that binds today's Soldiers to the Heroes of the past, has decided to assign the insignia and denomination of units, suppressed during the various measures, to thirteen command and tactical support departments of reorganization of the Armed Force, which have written glorious pages of Italian military history.
The event, chaired by the commander of the "Pozzuolo del Friuli" cavalry brigade, Brigadier General Massimiliano Stecca, was attended by the military, civil and religious authorities of the territory, including the commissioner Maurizio Negro representing the mayor of the city and the deputy prefect vicar of Gorizia, Valeria Gaspari.

“For the command department and for me - commented Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Pastore - it is a day that has an inestimable value, we will have the pride of serving under the tricolor banner, with the vigorous spirit of those who live their daily life with a saber drawn, following the symbol of the homeland and military honor, the Banner, for which many , over the centuries, they have fought, many have fallen, all have served and will serve with discipline and honor. "

The Treviso cavalry regiment was founded on 1 October 1909 in the headquarters of Florence, received baptism of fire in the two-year period 1911 - 1912, in Libya, during the Italian-Turkish conflict. During the 1st World War he fought on horseback and on foot, from the peaks of Mount Rombon to the stony ground of the Monfalconese karst where, on May 15, 1916, he distinguished himself, deserving the Silver Medal for Military Valor. Dissolved on 1 July 1920 following the reorganization measures of the Italian Royal Army. In 1975 it was reconstituted as an armored squadron group "Cavalleggeri di Treviso (28 °)" at the headquarters of Palmanova. For his meritorious work in the rescue operations to the Friulian populations devastated by the 1976 earthquake, the war flag received the Bronze Medal for Army Valor. On March 31, 1991, following a new ordinance for the reorganization of the Italian Army, the Cavalleggeri squadron group of Treviso was again dissolved and the war banner was kept in the flag room of the Vittoriano in Rome.

From 1 October 2022, with the change of name of the command and tactical support department "Pozzuolo del Friuli" to the command and tactical support department "Cavalleggeri di Treviso (28 °)", the Treviso combat banner returns to gallop ideally at the head of a military unit that will guard it with devotion and up to the extreme sacrifice. Accompany a military unit both in peacetime and in combat. It is the symbol of the honor of the military unit that guards it and represents its traditions, its history and the memory of its fallen.