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Belluga will host tomorrow the act of handing over the national banner to the paratroopers of the'Zaragoza' Infantry Regiment 5 The mayor José Ballesta will present the distinction to the members of this unit, who will make a military stop, i (29/03/2019)

The Cardinal Belluga Square of Murcia will host tomorrow at 11.00 the delivery of the national flag to the Infantry Regiment 'Zaragoza' No. 5 of paratroopers, who will make a military stop on the occasion of the distinction that will grant them the Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta .

The act will be chaired by the Lieutenant General in Chief of the Land Forces of the Army, Juan Gómez de Salazar Mínguez, and will be attended by the Director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, Virginia Martínez Fernández, Madrina del Regimiento.

The delivery of the national flag to the aforementioned Unit, which by Ministerial Order 7/2018 of February 5 grants the Regiment the use of the National Flag as a Flag, consolidates the great step that the Parachute Brigade has taken with the creation of the Regiment in its transformation process, to adapt to the new organic, organic Army that has turned it into a versatile unit with greater capacity, but without losing its essence.

The reorganization of the Parachute Brigade began on January 1, 2016, with the creation of the Infantry Regiment 'Naples' No. 4, where the flags 'Roger de Flor' and 'Roger de Lauria' were integrated.

On July 1, 2016, the 'Zaragoza' Infantry Regiment No. 5 was created. With this milestone, the Army points out that "it complies with the history of one of its Heroic Tercios, which allows us to evoke the glory and the traditions of the Spanish Infantry and recover the name of one of the oldest units and which was given the name of 'El Glorioso' ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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