A military academy (AM) cadet battalion of 440 cadets left Amadora on Tuesday to participate in the year-end exercise “Leão 23” in Campo Militar de Santa Margarida (Constancia), but the vehicles… a train chartered by CP , – scared the users of the Amadora station. During rush hour, at 08:00, they were surprised to see uniformed soldiers armed with SCAR (Army) and G3 (GNR) rifles.
The use of convoys “is a common practice” in NATO, and AM provides “training in force projection using railroads,” he said. cm army. The military agreed with the CP on an exclusive boarding platform, “a situation that did not exist and to which the army is alien, which led to the fact that the boarding had to take place on a platform determined by the CP” side by side with civilians.
The transportation of weapons “carried out safely”, and without ammunition. How the real displacement was trained, the weapon always accompanies the soldier, tells cm An unofficial source of the thread, adding that “a few decades ago, hundreds of military men could be seen in the columns, now there are much fewer of us …”. Already now, “the transportation of ammunition is carried out separately, in combat vehicles specially designed for this purpose and in accordance with the prescribed safety standards,” the army assures.