At the ceremony, which sealed the greeting of the city and of the island institutions to the highly decorated Italian army unit recently returned to Sardinia at the end of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, the commander of the 2 command of defense forces, General Carmine De Pascale, and numerous other civil, religious and military authorities in Sardinia.
General Scopigno sold the command of the "Sassari" brigade after two years of activity carried out in Italy and abroad. At his command, the "Sassarini" were engaged in Italy in the "Safe Roads" operation to guarantee public order and security for sensitive sites and urbanized areas of some cities in Sicily, Calabria and, subsequently, of the capital.
Also in the homeland, the "Sassari" brigade intervened with specific assets to numerous land reclamation activities from war surpluses and in competition for the public calamity that occurred as a result of the intense downpours 18 last November on the north-central slope of the Isola and, in particular, the city of Olbia. Abroad, from February to August 2014, the "Dimonios" participated in the ISAF mission (International Security Assistance Force) in Afghanistan where they helped to consolidate the process of transition of power from the Afghan-born forces in the security sector, to develop the plan to return to Italy the men and the withdrawal of the means and materials used by the Italian contingent in over 10 years of mission and guarantee training, advice and support to the Afghan security forces, especially on the occasion of the presidential elections of the 5 April and the run-off round of the 14 last June.
The general Nitti, from today the 42 ° commander of the "Sassari" brigade, comes from the army staff where he served as chief of the office plan and head of the operations area of the army operations center - 3 force department.
Source: Command of Terrestrial Operations Forces
