18/12/23 | Tales of military life
Tribute (due) to the 80th "Roma" infantry who takes leave with honor
Well, yes, we are now used to witnessing the closure of the barracks and perhaps even a little bit of burying the long history of the departments, a phenomenon which however does not erase the memories...
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13/06/21 | Tales of military life
"Il Signor Parolini" (ninth part)
The baked chicken, as expected, had lived up to its reputation, consolidating, where needed, the undisputed culinary mastery of Gastone, ...
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23/04/21 | Tales of military life
Anniversary of the 1st sergeant course of the Navy
On 23 April 1996, the 1st sergeant course of the Navy passed through the gates of the non-commissioned officers' schools of Taranto and La Maddalena. 25 years of honorable career. The Decree ...
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02/01/21 | Tales of military life
"Il Signor Parolini" (eighth part)
It was freezing cold and it was raining too, on that cold early February morning. I was alone in the "sample preparation" room, an isolated dependence and ...
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16/11/20 | Tales of military life
When female soldiers were new
Place: Livorno, legendary "Vannucci" barracks Unit: 187th parachute regiment, at the time made up of conscripts Year: 1995 Context: a company of Spanish fusiliers ...
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05/10/20 | Tales of military life
"Il Signor Parolini" (seventh part): the story of Sandro
Acciaroli Alessandro, born in 1922. Istrian from Pola, second and youngest son of a wealthy family (father, director of the Registry Office, mother high school principal, one sister ...
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13/08/20 | Tales of military life
1970 - Military Academy of Modena: silence out of order
We had just returned from the summer camp that took place in the Ligurian mountains. Get a tan, full of the health of your twenties strengthened by a month of outdoor life, ...
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29/07/20 | Tales of military life
"Il Signor Parolini" (sixth part)
And we went to Podenzana for dinner on a damp February evening. The occasion was the retirement of Acciaroli, Sandro, a great friend and the same age as Parolini, a teacher at ...
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17/10/19 | Tales of military life
"Pristina 1999"
Your article on the events of June 1999 in Kosovo made me think back to those days of twenty years ago. At the time I was a pilot of the 50 ° Group on the aircraft ...
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13/10/19 | Tales of military life
The story of a spoiler at the International Emergency Exhibition
Ilaria has big eyes that light up whenever she remembers the first time she wore a camouflage. Effective at the 32 ° regiment sappers of Fossano (Cuneo), with ...
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20/12/18 | Tales of military life
A world legend
Since the establishment of NATO all the marinas that are part of it use to exchange official with the aim of achieving the greatest possible integration, something fundamental ...
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25/07/18 | Tales of military life
"The Last Missile 2: Chronicles of an Asymmetrical War"
(Tale of military fantasy) 7 April 2018, exactly a year later, Suez Canal The ship proceeds slowly in the waters of the channel, still twenty minutes and will enter the ...
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23/03/18 | Tales of military life
"Mr. Parolini" (fifth part)
It was late in the morning of March that all the civil staff of the plant, with very short notice and without being given explanations, was summoned to the hall ...
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01/02/18 | Tales of military life
"Il Signor Parolini" (fourth part)
Several days passed in the repetitiveness of things, seeing me with Parolini only in passing. I met him early one morning, at the crater. The crater was a great chasm ...
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15/12/17 | Tales of military life
"Mr. Parolini" (third part)
Well Parolini, we are at a good point. Tomorrow I have to do something else and we can not finish; if it's all right for you we can see the day after tomorrow, at the entrance to the third area ...
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09/11/17 | Tales of military life
"Mr. Parolini" (second part)
A few days later I arranged for a job that was already scheduled and to be done in the explosive launches. It was called "quick essay"; consisted in verifying the ...
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29/10/17 | Tales of military life
"Yol, Criminal Camp 25: The fascist republic of the Himalayas"
Yol Reservoir, Kangra District, Himalayan Pradesh Region. Hours 05: 00 PM of 30 June 1941. The "desert" green truck with the decisive sword coat of arms ...
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04/10/17 | Tales of military life
"The boy from Sasso di Castalda"
There were a few frames. Those who came back when less expected. It had been a long time, but every now and then everything stopped and those frames came back. One That Day ...
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25/09/17 | Tales of military life
"Mr. Parolini"
It was a few days since I was watching him. I found him different from the other workers, he seemed to have the air as perpetually horrified, though as old and as he was old ...
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06/09/17 | Tales of military life
"Garibaldi"
(Fanta-story of military life) The sunset of that autumn day had begun and had not yet ejected the echoes of the battle. General Garibaldi, among his ...
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In Defense of Cecilia Sala: Reflections on Justice and (Juvenile) Opinions in Freedom
The news of the arrest and detention of Cecilia Sala in the homeland prisons of the happy Islamic Republic of Iran, now belongs to the past news. Far from sharing the whys and the...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Save the Navy!"
Dear Director, We kindly ask you to publish this letter, which is as open as it is heartfelt and truthful, concerning the need to “save” the Navy from a situation...
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