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131 officers promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the 201st 'EXEMPTION' course

131 Officers of the 201st 'Esempio' Course marked an important step forward in their military career by obtaining the rank of Lieutenant in a ceremony held at the Arsenal Palace, headquarters of the Training Command and Application School. The ceremony marked the conclusion of a rigorous training course and the transition to new responsibilities. [...]

The changing wind, Paratroopers at the top

When I joined the Folgore in 1999, a saying circulated in the corridors of the cold dormitories of the Bandini barracks in Siena: 'A paratrooper officer will never make a career. Impossible to see an amaranth beret at the top of the armed forces'. They were talking about Gen. C.A. Franco Angioni, who in the mid-1990s came to be National Director of the [...].