The Chief of the Army Staff Visits the 22nd Signals Regiment

Army General Fulgencio Coll Bucher, Chief of the Army Staff, has undertaken his first institutional visit of the 22nd Signals Regiment, whose headquarters is on Base “Capitán Sevillano” in Pozuelo de Alarcón. This activity is included within the programme of the Chief of the Army Staff’s periodic visits to different units.

Upon his arrival on the Base he has been received, with official honours, by Tomás Fernández Aragüés, commander of the Information and Communication System Command.

 Following this, he went to the 22nd Signal Regiment’s command building, where its commander, Colonel José Luis Goberna, offered him a presentation on the situation of the Regiment.  The subsequent tour of the installations began with a visit of the Operational Control Centre, from which the 70 Communications Centres maintaining the networks, systems and services managed by the Army throughout Spain are controlled.

Later, he visited the Technical Schools, with their Cisco and Microsoft Classrooms, from which on-site and on-line classes are taught to military personnel in all three branches of the Armed Services.  Afterwards, he visited the deployment of a restoration satellite terminal belonging to the Joint System, which guarantees the link between two points of the Telecommunications Joint Network in case of breakdown, along with a deployable Local Area Network project scheduled to be acquired by the Army in the short term.   

As well, General Coll has visited the future, in terms of a computer system that will permit, by simulation, the evaluation, testing and study of prototypes and interoperability among simulation systems and thus improve Unit training, through the simultaneous and interconnected use of various simulators of different command levels at different locations.

The visit concluded with the signing of the Signals Unit Guest Book in the 22nd Signal Regiment’s Hall of Colours.