Enamelled metal pin Command Air Force Team

OFFICIAL AERONAUTICA MILITARE PRODUCT WITH ANTI-COUNTERFEITING GUARANTEE HOLOGRAM

These items are produced according to very specific production standards dictated by the Ministry of Defense.

The pin is made of enamelled metal and measures 2.5 x 3 cm

The Air Squad Command (CSA) was established on 1 March 1999, initially with headquarters at the "Francesco Baracca" airport in Rome - Centocelle, before moving on 11 April 2014 to its current headquarters in Rome, Palazzo Aeronautica, home of the Air Force General Staff.

The CSA is the Air Force Command responsible for "training, preparing and preparing high quality Forces with outstanding C6ISTAR-EW skills, continuously innovating and integrating the best operational capacity expressible at the joint, interagency and multinational level. Projecting and employing in an agile, adaptive and effective way the Aerospace Power in operations to achieve the AM Mission in serving the Country.

For this purpose, the CSA has the task of managing the peripheral Departments and Operational Units of the Armed Forces (Intermediate Commands, Brigades, Wings, Military Airports, Training Departments, Flight Groups, Radar Groups) and maintaining their readiness for use and intervention, with the aim of guaranteeing the safety of national airspace.

The organic force managed by the Command is equal to approximately 19,000 men and women, engaged in 94 Commands, Departments and Training and/or Operational Bodies, distributed throughout the national territory. The Command's overall endowment is approximately 250 aircraft.

Until 2010, the task of employing forces was devolved to the Operational Command of the Air Forces (COFA), now abolished. The CSA also directly manages the Meteorological Service of the Air Force.