The Day of the Armed Forces that this Saturday is celebrated in Huesca will be the first of many things. It will be the first military parade in this celebration after the end of the restrictions due to the pandemic. It will be the first to be held outside of Madrid and with its classic format. And it will be the first popular act presided over by the King and Queen, who will return to the street after the last days, turbulent in the Royal House for the first visit to Spain of the King Emeritus.
The city of Huesca, designated more than two years ago to host the big day of the Armed Forces, the day on which citizens can come to applaud the members of their armies, will be a privileged witness to all of this.
Huesca has had to wait, because in the last two years, given the restrictions by Covid, the Ministry of Defense opted for a reduced parade format in order to avoid the risk of contagion as much as possible.
But these limitations have already been lifted and the Department led by Margarita Robles has once again deployed all its resources to restore normalcy, in a parade that is being held on the eve of one of the most important international events, the NATO summit that is taking place will be held in Madrid at the end of June and will focus on the new allied strategic concept derived from the war in Ukraine.
From Defense they wanted to highlight several of the most relevant actions of the Armed Forces during this course, such as their intervention in the eruption of the La Palma volcano or the military deployment to carry out in the evacuation from Afghanistan last summer.
The King and Queen, accompanied by the Minister of Defense, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, will preside over a complete military parade, with a wide deployment of troops and air assets. Thus, the Ministry of Defense has planned that 3,279 soldiers, 70 aircraft including planes and helicopters, and more than 150 vehicles will participate in the parade.
The central acts by the Armed Forces will begin with the military honors to the Kings and the presentation of news to the monarch. Later, there will be a parachute jump in front of the authorities gallery with the Spanish flag.
Immediately afterwards, the tribute for the fallen will be carried out, and then the parade will begin with the air parade. Between fighters, transport planes, training devices, helicopters and the Eagle patrol, 45 planes and 24 helicopters will participate in the parade.
In the part of the land parade, 17 armored and mechanized vehicles and 97 vehicles and motorcycles will participate. Representatives of the Civil Guard, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Civil Guard, a total of 3,279 troops, will participate in the parade on foot.
Today’s is the first act of the Kings of an intense agenda in the coming days. This same Saturday, Felipe VI plans to go to Paris to attend the Champions League final in which Real Madrid and Liverpool face each other.
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