On Saturday, 04 December 2021, a a ceremony was held at the Artillery School in Camp “Tagmatarhi (PB) Georgiadi Thoma” in Nea Peramos, Attica, to celebrate the Patron Saint of the Artillery, the Great Martyr Saint Barbara.

The ceremony was attended by the Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis and Citizen Protection, Mr. Evangelos Tournas (representing the Government), the Deputy Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Athanasios Bouras (representing the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament), the MP for West Attica, Mr. Georgios Tsipras (representing the Official Opposition), the Chief of Hellenic Air Force General Staff, Lieutenant General (HAF) Georgios Blioumis (representing the Chief of Hellenic National Defence General Staff), the Chief of Hellenic Army General Staff, Lieutenant General Charalampos Lalousis, the Chief of Hellenic Navy General Staff, Vice Admiral Stylianos Petrakis HN, the Army Inspector General – Commander of the Doctrine and Training Command, Lieutenant General Angelos Ilaridis, as well as representatives of the local government authorities and the Security Forces.

Within the framework of the ceremony, the Chief HAGS recognised Lieutenant General (ret.) Efthymios Katsouras, Commandant of the Artillery School from 1982 to 1983, and awarded a commendation to Captain (Art) Konstantinos Tzokas who graduated top of his class from the Field Artillery Captain Career Course at Fort Sill, US.

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