HUMANITARIAN AIRPORT BRIDGE IN IRAQ CLOSED

From August 16 to today, 49 tons of water and food have been transported by 6 flights, 200 tents and 400 sleeping bags. The intervention, ordered by Defense Ministers and the Foreign Affairs Ministry, saw the use of C-130J aircraft from the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa who were deployed for this operation at the facilities of the Al Bateen Air Task Force (EAU), from which the Air Force has been supporting the Afghan theater for years, and where the loading operations of the aircraft with the material made available for the population affected by the crisis took place. Among the personnel employed there was also a core of 16th Wing Air gunners for the safety of aircraft. In the emergency preparedness device, there is also Italian Army personnel with a platoon of airborne paratroopers assigned to prepare the loads in case of a parachute launch and a platoon of paratroopers from the 187th regiment of the “Folgore” paratrooper brigade with tasks of Force protection. Watch the video made during the loading and unloading phases of the humanitarian cargo