Beja: President of the Republic "starts" third year in office with a visit to BA11.
The President first visited the Air Base 11, in Beja, justifying thus begins” the third year of his mandate. Marcelo said that the visit was "enlightening" which allowed contact with three realities that are the history of the Force Area "past, present and future".
"It's my first visit to Base Area (BA) 11 and the first of the year to this branch and is intended to mark the beginning of my third year in office and is the thanks to our Portuguese Air Force ", He justified on the morning of Monday the President (PR), during his visit to the military infrastructure Beja.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa would thus mark its inauguration as the highest magistrate of the Nation and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, who began 9 March 2016, visiting the last of Air Force bases missing know.
The PR stressed that it was a visit "enlightening" which allowed contact with three realities that are the history of the Force Area "past, present and future", justifying that the Alpha-Jet plane, We are ending the operation last day 31 January, "It is passed because over and gives way to another future, P-3 which is past to present and future deep ", noting that the latter aircraft "is an essential reality in the capabilities of our Air Force", finished.
As for the elderly helicopters Alouette III, who entered the service of the Air Force in the late 60 and should be replaced by new aircraft, after authorization by the Government, in March last year, for the purchase of five light helicopters to replace the fleet, amounting to 20,5 million.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa justified the military's Squad 552-Drones, that "all felt that the Air Force is about to turn a page in qualitative terms and it is good that you can live this moment as protagonists", concluded
On the role of BA 11, the President explained that "the unit shows the capacity for renewal of our troops", and a message to the president of the Chamber of Beja, Paul Arsenio, who accompanied the visit said: "The local community not live without this Base, also the base does not live well if not integrated in the local community ", finished.
A complete and a message of confidence and mixed perception of the mood of the military leadership, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, She left him the question and gave the answer to Colonel Fernando Costa, commander of BA11. "I do not know if you consider yourself a happy man with the picture that has the base, It is that if it were not there was something pathological, I would only be happy as commander of this simple but complex unit ", synthesized.
Before ending the visit the President signed the Unity Honor Book.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
