In the morning of today the Mayor, Joaquín Buendía, has received in the Alcantarilla City Council, Lieutenant Colonel Chief of the Paratroopers Squadron of the Air Force (EZAPAC), Jesús González Hernández, in the already traditional farewell that takes place Before his relay in that military command, which will be next Friday, August 4, at nine thirty in the morning, at the Sewer Air Base, where this Unit has its location.
Also present was the future Lieutenant Colonel Chief, Juan Carlos Fernandez Casas.
Also at the meeting was the Councilor for Public Safety, Juan Antonio Mata.
The future head of the EZAPAC, the Tcol.
Casas, expressed "his great enthusiasm in carrying the command of the Paratroopers, who as you know is a unit of special operations that has the Air Force. Unit always very demanding, both for the boss, in this case for me, for everything Which implies co-ordination.My main objective is to continue to fulfill what has been done so far with this mission and with our own spirit, the zapador spirit, who is always famous wherever we go.Here I was as a lieutenant and as captain in Unity , In the EZAPAC, from 1993 to 2002 ".
He arrives at this command, after his passage, in Brussels, at NATO, as an assistant to the Military Counselor of the Ministry of Defense in that organization.
As for the Tcol.
Gonzalez, after three years in charge of the Paratroopers of the Air Force, his words of farewell to the mayor of Alcantarilla, have been grateful, "my new stage in Alcantarilla has been very satisfactory, it was not the first time Which was already in this Unit, in a great place, in these three years to highlight the celebration last year of the 50th anniversary of the EZAPAC installation in Alcantarilla, much of the celebration we wanted to do in this city, thanks to the City Council of Alcantarilla we could do it with concerts and with different cultural activities and therefore very pleased and very satisfied in the personal and professional, also because my family has been very well received, very integrated the children in the school, we have felt like At home.I go to Madrid, the Joint Command of Special Operations, I will continue to be related to what I have been doing here, but at a level a little more strategic to another level,
a little bit higher.
I will continue in contact with the Unit that endures here in Alcantarilla.
What I take in the retina, my way through the EZAPAC, is the celebration of the fifty years mentioned above and the verification of the Identity that is the Unit with the people of Alcantarilla and vice versa of Alcantarilla with the Parachute Sappers, that I carry it in my heart and we really feel very much loved and I trust that this will continue in the future. "
Alcantarilla Mayor Joaquín Buendía stated that "it is clear that the dynamism of the personnel of our Armies and in this case the Squadron of Paratroopers of the Air Force, in addition to their preparation and continuous training for the different operations to which They have to face, it also carries with it the mobility of its professionals who are growing, developing, and well, today we fire a great lieutenant colonel, Lieutenant Colonel González, who leaves us. A very special affection, I am sure of your Unity and the people of Alcantarilla also for all events, we have been remembering acts and symbols of affection that there is of the town of Alcantarilla with our Air Base and our Sappers, this feeling of affection will last And who knows if in the future we will have it again for the Air Base of Alcantarilla, we have wished him all kinds of success in his
new destination"
Buendía also said that "this renewal, brings us to Lieutenant Colonel Casas, a few days ago told the new Colonel of the Base and he also have the Sewer City, as an ally and a collaborator more of the Base, because it goes To be able to verify that affection that there is to our Armies in general and to the Air Force in our Air Base in particular, of all the inhabitants of Alcantarilla in general, to wish that we continue growing in that approach and in that reinforce, as do the members Of the Air Base in our population and where they are invited in the whole of the Region and the State, to reinforce the feeling of Spanishness that we need with the symbols and values ​​that the Spanish State represents for all citizens. Is playing an important role and we will continue to collaborate. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla