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Major
General Antonio SATTA
2007 - 2009
Major General SATTA was born in Sassari, Italy, in 1956. He joined the Italian Army Military Academy in 1974 and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in 1976. Between 1978 and 1988, he served within the “Folgore” Airborne Brigade as Platoon and Company Commander, and then as Staff Officer (S3) at Battalion and Brigade level. From 1989 to 1994 he was Staff Officer in the Operations and Training Branches of Italian Army General Staff and then, back to the “Folgore” Airborne Brigade, he served as Commanding Officer of the 5th Battalion / 186th Parachutist Regiment in Siena (Tuscany). In 1989 and 1991 he attended the Italian Army Staff College, resulting among the graduates of the Basic and Advanced General Staff Courses. From 1992 to 1993, Brigadier General SATTA attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Staff Officer and then as Head of the Financial Planning Section in the Italian Army General Staff. He then moved back to the “Folgore” Airborne Brigade as Commanding Officer of the 183rd Parachutist Regiment “Nembo” in Pistoia (Tuscany). From March 2000 to November 2004 Major General SATTA reported to a joint position as Chief, General Planning Office within the 3rd Division of the Italian Defense General Staff. Meanwhile, he attended the NATO “Crisis Management” and “Force Planning” Courses at the NATO School in Oberammergau (GE), the “Defense Resources Management Course” at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA (USA), the “Peacekeeping for Decision Makers Course” at the Defense Institute for International Legal Studies in Newport, RI (USA), and a “Near East - South Asia Regional Strategy and Security Policy Course” at the “Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies” of the “National Defense University” in Washington, D.C. (USA). Major General SATTA also attended the Course for "Advanced
Formation for the Semester of Italian Presidency of the European Union
Council" and the Course for "Strategic Planning and Process
Reengineering in the Defense Ministry", both at the National School
for Public Administration. Moreover, he has earned a Masters degree in "Humanitarian
Rights, Peace building and Constructive Conflict Management" at the
Advanced School of Public Administration in Rome and a Masters degree
in Strategic Sciences at Turin University. In September 2005 he was appointed as the 23rd Commander of “Folgore” Airborne Brigade, and from October 16th 2006 to July 14th 2007 he covered the position of Regional Command West Commander in Herat – Afghanistan. Last 31 August 2007 he assumed the position of Chief of Staff NRDC-ITA. A fluent speaker of English and French, Major General SATTA has taken part in several operations abroad: Lebanon, Somalia, Kosovo, Iraq, and recently in Afghanistan as Commanding General – Regional Command West. He has been awarded several decorations: the Bronze Army Meritorious Service Cross; the Knighthood of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic; the Mauritian Medal for Distinguished Military Service; the Meritorious Medal for Long Command; the Gold Medal for long Parachutist Service; the Distinguished Army Service (Gold) Award; two Bronze Meritorious Medals (Lebanon '83 and Kosovo ‘99); the UN and the National Awards for the Mission in Somalia; the National Humanitarian Award for relief operations during the Irpinian earthquake (Italy); the NATO Award for Mission in Kosovo. He has also been awarded the US “Legion of Merit”, rank of officer, for his service within MNF-Iraq. For the operations in Afghanistan, he has been awarded the National Meritorious Medal, the NATO ISAF “non-article-5” Meritorious Medal, the US Meritorious Service Medal; the Lithuanian Defense Distinction Medal, the Slovenian Gold Medal for Cooperation and Friendship and the Spanish Meritorious badge for ISAF Mission. Major General SATTA is married to Marina and resides in S. Marinella (Rome). They have twins, Alessandro and Simona, now eighteen.
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