A view from the Bridge

摘要

Did you always want to be working at sea or in the Navy? My father was in the air force and my grandfather in the army. I loved the Navy because it is very prestigious and was the right mixture of modern armed forces with tradition. Being the son of somebody who served in the air force, I grew up in many different places from the north to the south of Italy. Then I joined the Navy and had the chance to move round Italy again. I went to the Italian Naval Academy in 1986, and spent four years there; afterwards I was embarked on a ship for on-the-job training. What ships have you served on? Mainly on different types of frigates, although I spent a couple of years on the aircraft carrier Garibaldi, as well as a few months on an amphibious warship and on the destroyer Audace. I have been in command of a patrol ship, a frigate and this ship, a destroyer.