Participation in the Course was open, for the first time, to Officers of the Supply Corps.
The course, now in its second consecutive year at Centocelle Airport, has provided the basic knowledge in the field of aeronautical material resupply, delving into fundamental regulations, tasks, responsibilities, and the organisation of an M.S.A. (Military Stores Aviation) Warehouse.
The instructional path for the Officer with the Rifornimento M.S.A. (Munitions Supply) speciality has been divided into two cycles of activity: the course itself, theoretical in nature, with civilian and military instructors, and a practical traineeship on SiLEF terminals, the Logistics System for Efficient Material Management used by the Italian Air Force, carried out at the Automated Information Systems Department (ReSIA) in Rome Acquasanta with specific exercises.
For the first time, the course saw the participation of Officers from the Air Force Commissariat Corps, in light of the restructuring process, based on rationalisation and efficiency criteria, of the entire supply system currently underway in the Armed Force, which foresees the gradual consolidation of Ordinary Warehouses, until now managed by Officers of the Commissary Corps, and Special Warehouses, entrusted to date to Officers of the Weapons Branch.
The “F. Baracca” Airport Command is located on the Centocelle site (from the Latin centum cellae, meaning the place where the hundred knights, Emperor Diocletian's personal guard, were stationed). In 1909, Wilbur Wright made the first flight in Italy there with his Flyer and in the following years trained the first two Italian pilots there, Naval Sub-Lieutenant Mario Calderara and Engineer Lieutenant Umberto Savoia. From Centocelle, the SVA aircraft took flight, with which Arturo Ferrarin and Guido Masiero completed the Rome-Tokyo flight. Inside, the Forte Casilina, dating from the late 19th century and part of the city's defensive system, is preserved. Since 1999, the “F. Baracca” Airport Command has also assumed the designation of “Headquarters of the Air Squad Command”. Today, the Centocelle complex is home to High Joint Forces and Force Command Headquarters, such as COI, COFS, IT-JFHQ, and the Air Squad Command.
