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King Felipe VI presided today the delivery of Royal Offices to the 96 new lieutenants who have completed their studies as Air Force officers at the General Air Academy of San Javier, accompanied by the Minister of Defense, Maria Dolores de Cospedal.
In the same act, the Chief of the General Staff of the Air Javier Salto Martínez-Avial presided over the relay of the command of the Directorate of the General Academy of the Air and Headquarters of the Air Base of San Javier that passes from Colonel Pablo Sánchez de Lara to Colonel Miguel Iborra Ruiz who will be in charge of the AGA in the coming years.
The president of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, the Regional Assembly Speaker, Rosa Peñalver, the Government delegate in Murcia, Antonio Sánchez-Solís, and the mayors of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo and Los Alcazares, Anastasio Bastida, as the host city of the Air Force, formed part of the presidency of the event, which was attended by numerous civilian, judicial and military authorities and relatives of the new Lieutenants.
The event began at eleven o'clock in the morning with the entrance of the King to the Weapons courtyard of the General Air Academy where he reviewed the squad of students and greeted the authorities present before the Thanksgiving ceremony delivered by the Archbishop Castrense de Spain, Juan del Río Martín.
After the relay of the new standard bearer of the AGA, the King gave the Royal Offices and imposed a decoration to the number one students of his promotion, David Bonilla, of the General Corps;
Moisés López, of the Intendency Corps;
Sergio de Miguel, of the Corps of Engineers (EOF), and Alejandro Guillén of the Corps of Engineers (ETO).
After the delivery of the Royal Offices to the rest of the students, Colonel Pablo Sánchez de Lara said goodbye to them in his last address as director of the AGA, reminding them that from now on "you become subordinates and leaders at the same time and Requires loyalty that involves a respect to be won. "
Sánchez de Lara also reminded them that "this is not a separate point" and that from now on they assume "an individual and corporate responsibility of commitment and full disposition to Spain, a permanent commitment that will require you to give everything, sometimes even the end".
Colonel Pablo Sánchez de Lara also stated that he had felt "fortunate for the privilege of having served Spain in the AGA" which highlighted the "human and professional value" of the people with whom he has worked.
"I take many memories from inside and outside the Academy," said the colonel at the end of his command stage in San Javier.
After the relay in the Command of the AGA, the King was in charge of pronouncing the famous "rompan ranas" followed by the traditional launch of caps to the air of the students become already Lieutenants of the Army of the Air.
Later a terrestrial parade was celebrated with the Squadron of Students that opened the Music Unit of the AGA with the hymn to Murcia, presided by the authorities, before the tribute to the Fallen by Spain to the son of "Death is not the end" .
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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