Exercise "Dandolo 2021"

(To Army Majority State)
05/11/21

The "Dandolo" Tactical Group exercise conducted by the "Serenissima" lagoon regiment was held in the permanent shooting range of Capo Teulada, with the support of the "Genova Cavalleria" (4th) regiment, "Horse" artillery regiment, 3rd genius regiment sappers, "Pozzuolo del Friuli" logistic regiment, 17th "Sforzesca" anti-aircraft artillery regiment, 33rd EW regiment and 41st "Cordenons" regiment of tactical information brigade, 5th Aves “Rigel” regiment and the 37th wing of the Air Force.

The exercise made it possible to verify the command and control capacity of the “Serenissima” lagoon regiment at level Multi-weapon Tactical Group, consisting of Permanent Training Company (PTC) of the "Pozzuolo del Friuli" cavalry brigade and to verify the ability of the "Pozzuolo del Friuli" logistic regiment to deploy a Forward Support Area fully operational, in times compatible with the development of the maneuver.

The PTC project was started in 2020 at the behest of the command of the North Operating Forces and has the purpose of continuously training the organic structures at company / squadron / battery level set up in all the regiments of each brigade and dedicated to the conduct of high-intensity operations. They represent the skeleton of the operational forces placed at various levels of readiness as well as the skeleton of the Multi-weapon Tactical Groups in case of exercises / conduct.

Il Multi-weapon Tactical Group “Dandolo”, in the specific case, was engaged in the conduct of the tactical activities of “movement for contact” and “attack”, as part of a “shore to shore” amphibious operation.

During the activity, the ability to use anti-aircraft, electronic warfare and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and aircraft of the Army Aviation and the Air Force, for fire support from the third dimension.

The exercise, coordinated by the "Pozzuolo del Friuli" cavalry brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Filippo Gabriele, was attended by the commander of the "Vittorio Veneto" division, division general Angelo Michele Ristuccia, accompanied on the occasion by all the commanders of the brigades under it.

All activities have been developed in compliance with the measures for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic and in full compliance with environmental regulations.

The "Pozzuolo del Friuli" brigade completed the amalgam field in Sardinia in recent days for the next release abroad and is still engaged, with its own assets, in the conduct of the joint and multinational exercise "Bison Counter 21 ", Led by the European Union, running until the first ten days of November.