From the 2nd to the 7th of February, at the Taranto Air Force Volunteer School (SVAM), career orientation activities took place for the attendees of the 25th Permanent Service Volunteers Course (VSP).
The activities were structured over the entire week during which the personnel of the 4th Office of the Italian Air Force Personnel Management Directorate (DIPMA) was able to provide the guidelines for career guidance to 452 regulars that they are currently undergoing training at SVAM and that, upon completion of the general phase of the Course, they will be assigned to the new categories and specialities.
In particular, such operations were organised to provide attendees with the necessary knowledge and notions for a concrete and effective choice of the new employment profile that will accompany them for the rest of their career in the Armed Forces; in addition to explanatory lectures, the DIPMA delegation was able to speak with numerous airmen in order to better understand the skills and abilities they possess and identify the best training path for optimal professional enhancement of the personnel.
On Thursday 6 February, also speaking was the Director of DIPMA, Air Squad General Francesco Vestito who, in addition to actively participating in the aforementioned activities, accompanied by Commander of the SVAM, Colonel Alessandro Del Buono, wanted to meet the 25th VSP Course inside the “Italo Balbo” assembly hall where, addressing the attendees, he emphasised: “[...] After a few years in the Armed Forces, you are about to embark on a new professional path that will allow you to experience a leading military career, called upon to operate in an increasingly complex geopolitical context in which you will have to defend the country and the principles of freedom and democracy upon which our Republic is based. You will have the opportunity to carry out high-value and uncommon activities, you will be able to operate in the various fields of Defence with the possibility of being projected also into the new domains of space and cybernetics. For this reason you must give your utmost and be fully aware and convinced that you want to become a benchmark of excellence at the service of the Nation”.
It 25th VSP Course it is made up of as many as 452 attendees who arrived in Taranto on 8 January last to carry out the general training phase, which will be followed by the specialty phases relating to the Computer Science/Cybernetics, Firefighting and Administration Services categories at the same SVAM, while the other specialties relating to Cyber Information and Operations, Air Space Control and Meteorology, Flight Operators, Advanced Electronic Technologies, Technical Services and Aircraft Maintenance will be carried out by the AM Specialists School in Caserta.
The SVAM It is the only national training and educational centre that provides basic military and moral training for troops destined to serve in the Air Force, as well as specific vocational instruction. The School reports to the Air Force Schools Command/3rd Air Region, one of the three top Commands of the Armed Force. This Command is tasked with ensuring the selection, recruitment, military, cultural and vocational training of Air Force personnel, and flight training (at an international level). It achieves this through the study and adoption of innovative teaching and training methodologies focused on the learner, and informed by innovation, creativity, optimisation of human and material resources, environmental sustainability, and constant engagement with institutions and the local area in service to the community.
