Vincenzo Camporini

Vincenzo Camporini ( born June 21, 1946 in Como ) is an Italian retired general. In 2006 he became Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force, from 2008 to 2011 he was Chief of Staff of the Italian Armed Forces.

Career

Camporini attended from 1965 to 1969 the Air Force Academy and completed a degree in aeronautics and aerospace engineering at the University of Naples from. In the years after he flew in a Aufkärungsgeschwader in Verona -Villafranca (3 ° Stormo ) aircraft of the type " Starfighter ". After visiting 1977, the NATO Defence College, he was from 1979 to 1981 as a lieutenant colonel squadron commander of the 28 ° Gruppo of the 3rd Reconnaissance Wing in Verona. He then attended another general staff course at the Staff College of the Italian Air Force and was from 1983 to 1985 Adjutant General's Chief of Staff of the Aeronautica Militare.

From 1985 to 1988 Camporini worked as a colonel in the Air Force General Staff in research and development, then he led the flight test center in Practica di Mare, near Rome, and was Italian representative at a research organization of the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Devolopment ( AGARD ). In another use of the General Staff Camporini headed a department for the technical development of weapons systems. In this role, he also worked with the Euro Fighter program and was representative to the NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Force Command ( Naew ).

As Brigadier General Camporini headed from 1993 to 1996 the Operations Department of the Air Force General Staff, as a major general, he was " inspector " of naval aviation, and then " Inspector " for flight safety. From November 1998 to April 2001, he was head of the planning department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and then to February 2004 Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces.

2004 acquired Camporini at the University of Trieste, a Masters in International Relations.

From March 2004 to September 2006 led Camporini the Leadership Academy of the Italian armed forces.

On 20 September 2006, Camporini Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force. In this capacity he visited his German counterpart Klaus- Peter Stieglitz and various schemes of the German Air Force in May 2007. In the summer of 2007 Camporini Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society was.

On 29 November 2007 the Italian government designated him as the new Chief of Staff of the Italian Armed Forces. He took office on 12 February 2008 by Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola. On 18 January 2011 there were Camporini from the Army General Biagio Abrate.

After the end of his military career, he became involved in foreign policy in the Istituto Affari Internazionali. He became a member of the Social Democratic Partito Democratico end of 2013.

General Vincenzo Camporini has a daughter and two grandchildren. His wife Silvana died in January 2008.

• General ( Aeronautica Militare )
• Military Pilot ( Italy)
• Italian
• Born in 1946
• Man