Army, the 2022 Army Calendar presented in Palermo

From the commitment in the operational theaters for the disposal of ordnance and the training of the local security forces to the missions against terrorism, from the means used against chemical or biological threats to the ‘Safe roads’ operation, from support in case of disasters up to the fundamental role against the Covid emergency on several fronts, such as the distribution of vaccines, the control of ‘red areas’, military health. These are just some of the many faces of the Army, whose commitment is told in the ‘Calendar 2022’ entitled, precisely, “Your defense, our mission”, presented last night at the Unified Circle of Palermo by the journalist Elvira Terranova, in the presence of the Undersecretary of Defense Giorgio Mulè and of the Military Commander of the Army in Sicily, the Division General Maurizio Angelo Scardino, who also has the role of delegate of General Figliuolo of the commissioner for the Covid emergency in Sicily. Present, among others, the Prefect Giuseppe Forlani, the President of Ars Gianfranco Miccichè, the Mayor Leoluca Orlando. And the leaders of the police. From logistics to the vaccination campaign, from the hubs scattered throughout the territory, made operational in record time. The Army “was ready” also for the Covid 19 pandemic. ‘The Army also intervened in Sicily by providing all the capabilities and means necessary to manage and contain the virus. An example above all: the “Over-60 Sicily Tour” operation, an important logistical and organizational effort that involved sending a health complex to 25 so-called “sensitive points”, i.e. squares in municipalities far from vaccination low percentages of frail immunized subjects. In short, an activity that is the result of extensive planning and careful monitoring carried out by the Military Command of the Army in Sicily. Or the more than 160,000 so-called ‘impossible’ vaccines, made door to door, to the elderly, in the countryside, on a mountain peak. “The Covid emergency that we have experienced and from which we are emerging thanks to the heroic, extraordinary work with an ordinary approach by General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo and his team with the stars has changed the war paradigm by redesigning the rules of engagement and use of personnel ”Said Undersecretary of Defense Mulè. “The Army once again let itself be found ready from the logistics to the vaccination campaign, from the hubs scattered throughout the country made operational in record time”, he says again. calendar two images were inserted: a photograph referring to the use of soldiers in foreign operational theaters or in training activities and a drawing depicting the application of the skills acquired in the management of national emergencies. The author of these drawings is called Fabrizio Picone and he is a corporal chosen by the Army who serves in the ‘Aosta’ logistic regiment under the control of the Aosta Brigade. Last night, during the Gala evening, General Scardino announced that he will propose a special commendation for Picone. “A calendar that reminds us every day of the valpre of our military – says Mulè – of the Armed Force, of what we are and what we want to be”. On stage also some representatives of the Sicilian Health, who have worked and continue to work in synergy with the Army in the period of the pandemic. Including the director of the ASP of Palermo Daniela Faraoni and the extraordinary commissioner of the emergency in the province of Palermo, Covid Renato Costa. In addition to the general manager Mario La Rocca, Dr. Francesca Di Gaudio and the medical colonel Angelo Barna.