{"id":58178,"date":"2024-12-24T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58178"},"modified":"2024-12-30T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:15:01","slug":"the-spanish-military-who-are-celebrating-the-christmas-2024-far-away-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/24\/the-spanish-military-who-are-celebrating-the-christmas-2024-far-away-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish military who are celebrating the Christmas 2024 far away from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is here again, a celebration in which families have a tradition of getting together, but not all of them can do so.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These days, <strong>thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen are serving Spain far from their homes and loved ones<\/strong>. They will spend this Christmas with their other great family, the one they have in their colleagues in the Armed Forces. These lines are dedicated to them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The members of the <strong>XXXVIII Antarctic Campaign of the Army<\/strong>, the civilian scientists who accompany them and the crew of the ship \"Hesp\u00e9rides\" of the Navy, who are sailing towards Antarctica.<\/li>\n<li>The sailors on <strong>Navy ships<\/strong> that are at sea.<\/li>\n<li>The soldiers deployed to <strong>EUFOR Operation Althea<\/strong> in <strong>Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The soldiers deployed in <strong>Operation enhanced Forward Presence (eFP)<\/strong> and in the Nasams Anti-Aircraft Defense Unit in <strong>Latvia<\/strong>, in the eFP XVI contingent.<\/li>\n<li>The soldiers deployed in <strong>Romania<\/strong>, with the Tigru and Paznic Detachments, in the Reinforced Air Surveillance (eAP) mission, and with the FIMAR R-I of the Tercio de la Armada.<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers of the <strong>Nasams Air Defense Unit<\/strong> deployed in <strong>Estonia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Army contingent deployed in <strong>Slovakia<\/strong>, as part of the ground deployment on NATO's eastern flank.<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers deployed in NATO's <strong>Operation Support Turkey<\/strong> at Incirlik Air Base.<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers deployed in <strong>Operation Inherent Resolve<\/strong> in <strong>Iraq<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Airmen from the 53rd Contingent of the \"Orion\" Detachment in <strong>Djibouti<\/strong>, within the framework of <strong>Operation Atalanta<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Sailors from the <strong>frigate \"Santa Mar\u00eda\" F-81<\/strong> assigned to <strong>Operation Atalanta<\/strong> in the <strong>Indian Ocean<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers from the BRILIB XLII contingent deployed in <strong>Lebanon<\/strong> in <strong>Operation Libre Hidalgo<\/strong> with UNIFIL.<\/li>\n<li>The soldiers deployed in the <strong>EUMAM Mozambique<\/strong> mission in that African country.<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers deployed in the <strong>EUTM Somalia<\/strong> mission.<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers deployed in the <strong>Central African Republic<\/strong> within the framework of the <strong>EUTM RCA<\/strong> operation, in Bangui.<\/li>\n<li>Airmen from the <strong>\"Ivory\" Detachment<\/strong> deployed in <strong>Senegal<\/strong>, on a mission to support Mali.<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers stationed at the UN Mission in <strong>Colombia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would also like to remember <strong>other people who will spend these days serving Spain, their respective countries and their fellow human beings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ukrainian soldiers in Spain<\/strong> are training with Spanish personnel in order to return to their country to defend it against the Russian invasion.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>diplomatic staff<\/strong>, <strong>military attach\u00e9s<\/strong> and <strong>National Police officers<\/strong> who are deployed in the various <strong>Embassies, Consulates and other Spanish delegations abroad<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The military personnel on duty in barracks, ships, air and naval bases,<\/strong> air control centers, air surveillance squadrons and in military hospitals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The military personnel from other countries stationed in Spain<\/strong>, in different military bases and as defense attach\u00e9s in diplomatic delegations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The agents of the National Police Force, the Civil Guard and the local and regional Spanish police forces, as well as the police forces and border guards of other countries<\/strong> who are on duty watching over the streets, on the roads, in our mountains, ports, airports and customs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The healthcare personnel and nursing home staff<\/strong>, who look after our health and care for our sick and elderly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Th Firefighters and Civil Protection personnel on duty<\/strong> these days, waiting for any emergency and even saving lives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All the civilians working these days<\/strong>, looking after our infrastructure and transport, providing basic services to our society, and also prison officers.<\/li>\n<li>And as always, with special affection, <strong>the missionaries, priests, military chaplains, religious and collaborators<\/strong>, who help those most in need, care for the sick, give spiritual assistance to our military and watch over us with their prayers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I leave the most important thing for last: <strong>a special memory and a hug to the families of the military and police officers who died this year<\/strong> in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you all for your service and your example<\/strong> and a big hug.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><big2>Merry christmas!<\/big2><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EMADmde\/status\/1871292193870373371\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Estado Mayor de la Defensa<\/a>. The frigate \"Santa Maria\" F-81 sailing alongside the ship \"Dolores\" of the World Food Program, in a photo published on December 23, 2024.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is here again, a celebration in which families have a tradition of getting together, but not all of them can do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11550],"tags":[11252,11875,10557,10669],"class_list":["post-58178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-defense","tag-christmas","tag-spanish-air-force","tag-spanish-army","tag-spanish-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}