Venice has 22 new lagooners

(To Army Majority State)
30/04/17

At the "Serenissima" lagoon regiment, the 63 ° course of Amphibious qualification.

During five intense weeks of activity, the pupils of the lagoon regiment and an aliquot from the 17 ° artillery regiment of Sabaudia (wards inserted in the National Projection Screening Capacity) have faced, in an environment made even more challenging by adverse weather conditions, the selective trials of the course.

Gears ballasted at increasing distances, tests of buoyancy, crossing of water courses, tactical descent with the technique of fast-rope, have put a strain on the newly qualified. There were in fact 66 at the beginning of the course and only 22 managed to finish it positively.

The regimental commander, Colonel Massimiliano Stecca, in complimenting those who passed the course gave them the "welcome on board".