The Minister of Defense, Margarita Roblesreported this Friday that 500 new soldiers – 300 from the Army, 100 from the Air and 100 from the Navy – are already working from 8 a.m. in the Valencian Community and this Saturday “those who are needed will be incorporatedwithout any type of limitation of means.” Even the “120,000 men and women” that make up the Spanish Army if necessary.
“The army has been there since day one and it will be there”the Minister of Defense has guaranteed in an interview with TVE, in which she has recognized that the magnitude of the catastrophe caused by DANA is still difficult to calculate because “there are places where there are vehicles that are one on top of the other, with people, families, who may be inside”.
After once again conveying all his solidarity to those affected, Robles stressed that “everything that can be done is being done and will continue to be done”; Since this morning, 500 more soldiers have joined the work carried out since the first day by another 1,205 members of the Military Emergency Unit (UME).
The new soldiers, who come from the Navy, from the third of San Fernando; of the Air Force, the EADA of Zaragoza and the Alcantarilla parachute squadron, and also the Army has deployed the military police units of Bétera and the marine cavalry regiment, They are deployed in Utiel, Requena, Ribarroja, Torrent, Paiporta and Algemesí.
And to those 500, the Government will “incorporate all those that are necessary depending on the needs” and “where necessary, without any type of limitation of means.”
120,000 military
“Today the absolute and total commitment is that they will be in all localities, with all the power that the Army has, with the 120,000 men and women if necessarywith all the material means”; today there are 1,705, and “tomorrow” they will be “those who are necessary, as long as it is necessary, for as long as it is necessary.”
However, “it is not so much a problem of the number of soldiers, but of the capabilities depending on what is needed”, the minister made it clear, who celebrated that yesterday the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, “was aware of the importance of the Army” and demanded its presence.
The missions that the Army has ahead of it are many, from “help dig people out that may be in basements or on ground floors” to “help bail out water in many places” and open roads to allow transportation so that food and water can reach certain populations that are “absolutely isolated.”
But “people don’t think that the Army will arrive and everything will be solved” because there are places where the situation is “absolutely impassable”, he concluded.
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