Navy Day in Civitavecchia, Crosetto: “Thanks to defense, security is maintained and democracies are protected”
The highest institutional positions of Defense and the Navy were present
ROME – This morning, Navy Day was celebrated at the port of Civitavecchia, in the presence of the highest institutional officials of Defense and the Navy and with the participation of the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Enrico Credendino and the Chief of Staff of the Defense, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone.
“Thanks to defense we can maintain security, democracies, freedom and peace are defended – said Crosetto -. We have understood this and are understanding it even more in recent years than as we understood it years ago.”
Navy Day, opened by the message of the President of the Republic, commemorates the anniversary of the Premuda Action of 10 June 1918, an important and daring naval operation of the First World War. On that occasion, the Anti-Submarine Motorboats 15 and 21, led by Lieutenant Commander Luigi Rizzo, attacked and sank the enemy battleship Szent Istvan, preventing an incursion against the Allied anti-submarine blockade in the Otranto Channel. During the ceremony,the ships Paolo Thaon di Revel and Francesco Morosinireceived the combat flag and the ship Vulcano was awarded the gold medal of merit for its exceptional health care service, as hospital ship as part of the Levante operation, to patients coming from the Gaza Strip. “We must remember – declares Minister Crosetto – that we have over 30 ships and 4,000 men committed to our security and our economy.
The mission in the Red Sea supports freighters that bring, inside or outside Italy, riches, the work of our industries, workers and the project of our ingenuity; which perhaps defend the internet and gas and electricity lines on the seabed. We are not only engaged from a military point of view but in an increasingly broader concept of security because wars are not only traditional but also hybrid, they try to hit the economy and not just the territories”.
The Chief of Staff of the Navy, team admiral Enrico Credendino explained that “in the last two years we have had to deal, suddenly and unexpectedly, with new threats , especially in the maritime dimension, with ballistic and hypersonic missiles, cyber attacks and the use of drones. In the face of this change in scenario, we have deployed our adaptive nature, intensifying and refocusing training and adopting a real change of mentality in pursuing it. realism, through the daily valorization of returns from the field”. For the Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, today “is an important moment to celebrate the virtues and values that the Navy shares with the others Armed Forces, in an indissoluble bond made of history and traditions that illuminates the current path of Defense, in a complex current geopolitical scenario”.