The Warrant Officer Paratrooper Innocenzo Marraudino has passed away.
Ill for some time, the Warrant Officer passed away at the age of 79, leaving a deep void in the large family of Paratroopers.
“Black Devil” of the XV Paratrooper Company, Marraudino was a reference figure for over 30 years of the 186th Paratrooper Regiment Folgore and the 5th Paratrooper Battalion El Alamein of Siena.
Those who served alongside him, in Siena as well as on missions abroad, in Lebanon in 1983, in Somalia in 1993, and in the Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, and Kosovo), remember him as a demanding Warrant Officer but capable of imparting values that cannot be learned from manuals. For entire generations of paratroopers, he was a constant, a human reference point even before a military one.
The news of his passing has stirred deep emotion even on social media, where numerous paratroopers, both active and retired, have shared memories, photographs, and words of respect. Simple yet meaningful messages that testify to how Marraudino left a lasting human and professional mark on those who had the honor of serving alongside him.
With his passing, a piece of lived history departs, made of training, camaraderie, and a sense of duty. What remains are the respect, the memory, and the moral legacy left to those who continue to wear the maroon beret today.
To the family and all the Paratroopers who knew him, our deepest condolences.
Folgore Warrant Officer Marraudino!
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