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The Academy is led by a Division General and the Command Office run by his deputy, a Brigadier General. There are two branches within the Academy: the Academic Department and the Student Regiment.
The Academic Department is run by a Colonel who has a secretariat and four departments under him, which are responsible for the didactic activity of the institute. The departments are:
- Department of university studies and relations: responsible for the organization of lessons and university activities and relations with the Universities of Modena and Reggio Emilia as well as other universities.
- Department of physical education: responsible for the psycho-physical preparation of the students and managing the sports events
- Department of didactics and quality control: specialized in internal quality control of studies.
- Department of foreign languages: responsible for teaching foreign languages
The Student Regiment, also led by a Colonel, has three battalions of students, a majority section, a training section and a Command Office. The Command Office and the majority section guarantee the good functioning of the department, while the other sections focus on training activities. The three battalions are divided as such: 1st Battalion |
- 1st Company Student Officers
- 2nd Company Student Officers
- 3rd Company Student Officers
| Italian Army |- | 2nd Battalion |
- 5th Company Student Officers
- 6th Company Student Officers
- 7th Company Student Officers
| Italian Army |- | 3rd Battalion |
- 4th Company Student Officers
- 8th Company Student Officers
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Training and studies
The Military Academy is a demanding training course for young people, and the training falls into various subcultural, military and sports-related elements. The courses of study are of various types and duration:
- The various weapons, transport, administrative commands, and materials involved in military operations, a two-year course that continues for another three years at the School of Application of Turin for more advanced officers.
- Carabinieri officers undergo a two-year course that continues at the School Officers in Rome with two years of application and a year of specialization, and confers a MSc Degree in Law.
- The corps of engineers follows a three-year course that continues for two years at the School of Application (Engineering).
- Veterinarians, chemists follow a course of five years (in Veterinary Science, Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology).
- Doctors follow a course of six years (Degree in Medicine and Surgery).
The military academy also promotes and provides "military preparation", a term they use to mean required topics all officers should know, which includes:
- Ethics and the art of military command (attachment to the institution and the state, as well as professional ethics and a sense of honor)
- Weapons, topography, English and NATO terminology
- Cartography, political science, mechanics, fluid mechanics, engineering management.
Obviously, every department has some officers specializing in some of these disciplines, but there is much cross training. The sports training includes gymnastics, defensive melee combat, swimming, riding and target shooting.
In addition to these theoretical activities (except for sports), students need a specialized technique that is manifested in military training practice. These activities are mostly mock exercises with small arms and armor, training in hand-to-hand fighting, learning how to maintain cohesion when getting to battlefields and military orientation and direction finding.
Every study course has a final exam and there are also summer training camps, and winter training in the snow.
The years of study are divided as follows:
- First year, team commander capable of combating in mountainous or woodsy terrain and in cities; capable of parachute jumps or has attended a military cavalry course; attended an English course and driving school. During the month of February, the students gain their first hands-on experience with individual and department arms, with the individual 