RI 1: Patrolling forest, incorporation of recruits and DDN.
The Infantry Regiment (RI) 1, based in barracks in the Valley of Sting, in Beja, with great activity, meet the commitments to forest patrols, incorporation of recruits and also with the National Defense Day.
Since last Sunday, after the decision of the Council of Ministers Extraordinary, that Infantry Regiment military (RI) 1, make 8 daily patrols, watch forests in fire prevention and detection, in the districts of Beja and Faro. If there is no change to the call “critical period”, this work will end on 31 October.
From the quarter Beja, out four patrols, bound to the municipalities of Mértola and Almodovar, one each, and two for the county of Odemira. The headquarters of the Watchtower, Tavira headquarters detachment, They go out every day more 4 patrols, allocated among the municipalities of Alcoutim, Loulé, São Brás de Alportel, Aljezur, Monchique, Tavira, Silves and Castro Marim. Daily RI 1, commits 8 patrols, composed of 24 military and 8 Car.
But Infantry Regiment 1, the unit over the south of Portugal Continent, also has the mission of training new military, having received last Tuesday, incorporation of 60 soldiers-recruits for another General Common Training Course Army Squares CFGCPE).
The course will last 12 weeks, The subjects trainees soldiers, initially, to basic education, culminating with the Flag Oath ceremony, followed by a second supplementary investigation phase, following which, obtained use, They will be considered ready and distributed in different units, Army establishments and agencies.
The RI1, It is also involved in a third aspect, the disclosure of “military life”. So, from the next day 31, the National Defense Dissemination Center Beja, installed in the Alentejo unit, I saw young people get that target participation in the Day of National Defense (DDN).
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
