He A Coruña headquarters account in the plans modernization of the Army provided by the state government. Facing the horizon of 2035 the barracks will be transformed into a Maneuver Support Command in the Land Force. It will assume new powers, as announced by the new Head of the Operational Logistics Force, Juan Francisco Arrazola, who today took office in the Captaincy Palace.
According to the plan called Force 35 to, according to the Ministry of Defense, prepare the Army to face future challenges within a global environment, the Coruña barracks will have under its command different units now settled in other parts of the State. Juan Francisco Arrazola: “Maintaining its current location in the headquarters of A Coruña and its activities and logistics units and assuming under his command, artillery, engineers, intelligence, information and defense transmission”.
Army work in the pandemic
The nine chief of the Operational Logistics Force (FLO), Juan Francisco Arrazola Martínez, highlighted in his inauguration the “generosity and dedication” with which the Army worked during the COVID-19 crisis. “They have helped mitigate the disastrous human and material effects that this pandemic has caused,” he defended in his speech.
The general pointed out, during the ceremony at the General Captaincy Palace of A Coruña, that the work during the pandemic is one of the “multiple” examples of cooperation between the Armed Forces and civil administrations in which, he stressed, there are “patents the benefits they have always brought to the public “.
The Chief of Staff of the Army (JEME), Francisco Javier Varela Salas, which closed the act, also described as “decisive” the action of the Armed Forces in the crisis of COVID-19 in “supporting the population within their functions.” Thus, he showed that the “important task” of military logistics is not only carried out “far from home.”
At the inauguration, Arrazola has been supported by the Chief of Staff of the Army, Javier Varela Salas, and the main Coruña and Galician authorities, such as the Government delegate in Galicia, Javier Losada; the vice president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda; the president of the Galician Parliament, Miguel Santalices, and the mayor of A Coruña, Inés Rey, among other civil and military authorities
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