Rinaldo Veri
Rinaldo Veri ( born April 22, 1952 in Mumbai, India ) is an Italian admiral. From March 2011 to January 2013, he commanded the Allied Maritime Command Naples Allied Joint Force Command Naples of and thus the naval forces that enforce as part of Operation Unified Protector an arms embargo against Libya. Veri is currently Head of the Leadership Academy of the Italian armed forces.
Life
Veri attended Campion School in what was then Bombay, where his father had emigrated. In 1975 he graduated from officer training at the Naval Academy in Livorno and then completed a pilot training in the United States. From 1978 to 1982, he flew from land bases and warships from helicopter of the Italian Navy. In July 1982, he assumed his first command at sea, the speedboat Lampo (P 491 ), the following year, then the Corvette Aquila (F 542). In 1984, he returned as an instructor at the Naval Academy back to Livorno. From 1986 to 1990 he was the Defense Ministry in Rome, initially in the defense sector, then the General Staff of the Armed Forces. In the following three years he commanded the corvette Pietro De Cristofaro (F 540) and Salvatore Todaro (F 541), and the frigate Espero (F 576 ). Then Veri served until 1997 again in the Defense Ministry, only at the Naval Staff and then again at the General Staff of the Armed Forces. Transported to the end of 1995 sea captain, he took over from 1997 to 1999 the destroyer Luigi Durand de la Penne ( D 560). It was followed until June 2000, a course at the Staff College of the Armed Forces in Rome.
From 2000 to 2002 was head of a Veri Planning Department of the Naval Staff. While this use, he was promoted to the first July 2001, Rear Admiral ( Rear Admiral Lower Half ), deployed in the spring of 2002 due to the ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom as the Italian Senior National Representative to the United States Central Command in Tampa Florida. In September 2002, Veri Italian Naval Commander Task Group was. As such, he led the first half of 2003, the European Maritime Group ( CTF 150), which operated as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in the Indian Ocean. From March 2004 to July 2007, he led the planning department of the admiralty, from July 2005 as Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral Upper Half ). From July 2007 to February 2009, he commanded the High Seas Fleet ( COMFORAL and COMITMARFOR ). He then became chief of staff in 2010 Operations Command in Rome Cento Celle and then as deputy commander Vice Admiral of Operations Command until June. On 10 March 2011 Veri took over the naval command of NATO on the island Nisida in the Gulf of Naples, on 11 January 2013, the Leadership Academy in Rome.