Army: Mountain Warfare Individual Basic Skills Winter 2022

(To Army Majority State)
15/02/22

In recent days, the Alpine troops of "Julia" have moved to the mountains for the training activities included in the project called Mountain warfare 2022. The areas of Tarvisiano, in Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Rhaetian Alps of the province of Brescia, in the Passo del Tonale area, provided the setting for high-altitude training, typical of Alpine troops, such as movement techniques and survival in the mountains. which are at the basis of the formation of black feathers, in the wake of the tradition of the Alpine troops.

After passing the rock course and the basic ski course, only the best 8 of each regiment were able to take part in the activity of the Mountain Warfare Individual Basic Skills Winter 2022 in an operational environment that does not allow for particularly demanding errors. Only 50 soldiers in the whole brigade, including officers, non-commissioned officers, graduates and enlisted men, underwent the rigid winter training lasting 4 weeks, a training cycle that was focused on overcoming vertical obstacles tests, forcing courses of water, a highly impeding element in the ground at high altitude and crossing of crevasses and overnight stay in the open at an altitude of 1800 meters.

The course was organized in four modules: the first of exploitation of the winter land for movement and parking; the second for daytime and nighttime movements and maneuvers, both on foot, and with rotated tactical vehicles, tracked and on board helicopters; the third with overcoming of obstacles in mountainous winter terrain and, finally, in the fourth module combat patrols in a mountain environment and final evaluations with the scores assigned to the students for the final ranking of merit.

At the end of the activities, the award ceremony for the qualification of mountain combat operator took place.