The General Albacete and Fuster Marine Infantry School (Eimgaf), which is in Cartagena, will get more space from the Navy. The base budget for the project is €13.5 million, and it includes building new buildings for the school’s kids to live in.
In particular, the project includes five three-story buildings (ground, first, and second) for students in the school’s different classes and skill levels. The Navy says, “The proposed infrastructure will eventually allow all accommodations for Military Training students to be concentrated in a single area, adequately and with the capacity to accommodate extraordinary increases.” They will also let other students stay sometimes if they are in training that needs them to live on campus, like those in the Special Naval Warfare aptitude program or maybe the school’s troops.
The bidding process for the job that will last two years has begun. The Navy’s Logistics Support Command’s Economic Management Directorate is in charge of the bidding process. The deadline for filing bids was in the middle of August. So, the winning buyer will be made public in the next few weeks.
In the project’s explanatory memorandum, the Navy stresses that the building of these facilities was put on hold 15 years ago because of a lack of “financial resources.” For the Eimgaf, the new buildings are part of their “pending infrastructure needs for construction and execution.”
More than 20 million euros invested
More than 20 million euros have been spent by the Navy on this training centre. Around 13.5 million euros will be spent on the expansion. Another 7 million euros will be used to build a new command and control building and fix up the courtyard and storage areas. Finally, 800,000 euros will be spent on building a simulator.
The second one was given to a temporary joint venture (UTE) made up of Jumabeda and Garcisas Instalaciones in March.
Infantry School for General Albacete and Fuster
The Marine Infantry School is at the La Algameca Naval Station. Colonel Francisco Javier Carbonero Berdún has been in charge of it since July of last year. The centre, which is more than 100,000 square meters in size, has courses for people who want to join the Marine Infantry as regular or non-commissioned officers, as well as courses to help people get promoted to corporal and first corporal.
It also creates courses for Marine Corps officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men to learn new skills and specialise in a variety of areas, such as Special Operations, Health, Security and Protection, Naval Police, Protection of Authorities, NBC, Sappers, Amphibious and Expeditionary Operations, Artillery, Weapons Maintenance, Communications, Electromechanics, Combat Tanks, Anti-tank Weapons, Motorsports, Amphibious and Mechanised Vehicles, and more.
It’s also home to the Navy Driving School, which teaches people how to get different types of military driver’s licenses, such as ones for dangerous goods, combat vehicles, heavy vehicles, military driving, and more.
Author: Derek Appleton
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