Princess Leonor will study two courses in one year at the Zaragoza AGM with the specialty of Infantry

ZARAGOZA, 11 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Princess of Asturias will begin next week, on August 17, her military training at the General Military Academy of Zaragoza (AGM) with a special study plan compared to that of the other cadets, since she will study two courses in one year and will have , like his father Felipe VI, the infantry specialty.

This was detailed by the Acting Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, during a visit this Friday, August 11, to the AGM facilities to find out in detail about the military and academic training of the princess. "We want to give the maximum normality to the presence and training of the princess at the Academy," she said.

The general director of the AGM, Manuel López Pérez, has explained that the particularity of the specific study plan of the Princess of Asturias is that, as established by Royal Decree 173/2023, Leonor will enter the first promotion along with 612 cadets but , on October 7, the day of the Jura de Bandera, will go to the second promotion.

This Royal Decree 173/2023, which regulates the training and military career of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias, also marks Leonor's specialty in her curriculum, infantry, and some specific subjects of the same.

Robles has assured that "everything is ready" to receive "Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Asturias", who is called to hold the leadership of the Armed Forces, so that "she knows very closely what training and military career".

He stressed that "military training is very demanding, and demanding, but at the same time gives leadership qualities and, above all, values, humanity and camaraderie, which I believe are very important."

Likewise, Robles wanted to highlight the "effort" and work carried out by the AGM to adapt the curriculum to the princess so that she can study two courses in one year, the only particularity she will have. In the rest, she has assured that there is "the maximum desire for her to be on an equal footing with the rest of her colleagues."

"Spain can feel very proud of its Armed Forces, which are doing a magnificent job in Spain and in the world, and it is very good that the Princess of Asturias knows and appreciates, and is with her colleagues from the beginning", he underlined the minister.

The Minister of Defense has admitted that "there is great enthusiasm, because we believe that it is very important that her Royal Alteration the Princess of Asturias, who in her day is called to hold the leadership of the Armed Forces, knows very closely what the training and military career.

"The last time Leonor was here, on July 7, we saw her in great spirits, she was also with her colleagues, and I believe that she is waiting for it like anyone who joins, with enthusiasm and expectations. I'm sure she will He's going to enjoy it a lot", commented Robles.

The heiress to the Crown will spend three years at the academies of the Army in Zaragoza, the Navy in Marín (Pontevedra) and the Air Force in San Javier (Murcia), where she will prepare to assume her responsibility as Supreme Command in the future of the Armed Forces that the Constitution attributes to the Head of State.

On her trip to the Aragonese capital, the Minister of Defense has also gone to the General Military Hospital of Zaragoza, to visit Ukrainian war wounded and, in addition, after the visit to the AGM facilities, she has addressed the detachment of the Group 43 from the Zaragoza Air Base.