Last Friday, King Felipe VI attended the maneuvers carried out by the students of the General Military Academy (AGM) of Zaragoza, where Princess Leonor has been completing the first of her three years of military training since last summer.
During the day, the monarch was able to see first-hand the development of a tactical exercise on the maneuver field in which the 22nd company, in which his daughter is a member, participated. In the photos published by Casa Real this Monday, the monarch can be seen, wearing the fatigues of a captain general of the Army and a blue beret, greeting Leonor on the maneuver field, addressing a few words to the members of his unit and accompanying them. during the ranch, with the princess sitting right next to him.
Today's is the fifth installment of photographs of the heir to the throne in a military uniform that the King's House has distributed since she entered the Army academy on August 17. The last one was on December 19, when the princess was doing some mountain and ski exercises in the Aragonese Pyrenees.
Lady Cadet Borbón, along with her second-year classmates, began a new period of maneuvers on March 11 at the San Gregorio National Training Center, annexed to the grounds of the General Military Academy of Zaragoza. The exercises continued until Friday the 15th, the day on which they were attended by the monarch, and continue this week at the Toledo Infantry Academy.
As future lieutenants in the Army, last week's training program in the Aragonese capital is designed to improve the skills necessary to command small military units and perfect their preparation to lead the platoon.
The program includes topography activities, for which they carry out tours guided by maps of the maneuver area both in daytime and nighttime environments; combat training exercises in urbanized areas in a town recreated on the maneuver field; shooting practice; and tasks aimed at strengthening their physical capacity and resistance to fatigue.
After his visit to the AGM, King Felipe VI enjoyed a ski weekend in the Aragonese resort of Formigal-Panticosa, where the slopes are at their best of the season thanks to recent snowfall.
Saturday's day included a brief meeting with the president of the community, Jorge Azcón, who greeted him and wished him a good stay, and a meal at La Glera, a restaurant located at 2,000 meters above sea level in a small, exclusive cabin with capacity for 18 people specialized in grilled meats. On Sunday he also skied before tasting a menu prepared by the Cancook restaurant in Zaragoza, with a Michelin star, at Las Mugas, an exclusive igloo space located at 1,800 meters above sea level.
For her part, the heir to the throne traveled to Toledo this weekend, where she will remain until the 23rd, to continue her military training. The Toledo Infantry Academy has a 1,500-hectare rectangular maneuver field between two streams and is declared of general interest for the Army.
As the Ministry of Defense explains, it is distributed in several areas, where exercises and maneuvers are carried out. There are also other areas where shooting exercises are carried out with different types of weapons, wheeled and tracked vehicles are driven, and night and town combat practices are carried out.
The field is also known for being one of the Army grounds where Ukrainian recruits have trained at the end of 2022. It was a five-week training during which they received theoretical training and combat, shooting, urban combat and first aid instruction. .
Next day the 28th, the princess will begin her Easter vacation and will resume classes on April 4. At that time, he will face the final stretch of the first of his three years of military training (land, sea and air), which began last August with his entry into the Army Academy in Zaragoza, where he will graduate as a second lieutenant. student.
The second course of his military training will take place at the Marín Naval School (Pontevedra), where he will board the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano, just as his father did when he was his age. The third and last year of the military course will take place at the Military Air School in San Javier (Murcia). When she finishes, Leonor will have obtained the rank of lieutenant in the Army and Air Force and second lieutenant in the Navy.
