• The government delegate in Cantabria considered that the Military Emergency Unit demonstrates “the value of public services”

The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), which is commemorated this Tuesday, October 7, and has claimed its creation as “a country success”

“The UME represents the value of the public, the value of public services and the value of serving others,” said Casares, who stressed that, for their work in these two decades, the members of the Military Emergency Unit “have earned the affection, admiration and respect of the Cantabrians and the Spanish.”

In the case of Cantabria, Casares has indicated that the UME Battalion V, based in León, is the one that provides service in the community when necessary, has intervened in the region on numerous occasions and “some of them that are the retina” of the Cantabrians.

Thus, he recalled the intervention of the UME for the rescue of a hundred vehicles that were trapped in the snow in February 2015 on the A-67 between Cantabria and Palencia, in the floods of January 2019 that affected more than 60 municipalities or during the COVID-19 pandemic, when they were on multiple occasions in the region to disinfect critical infrastructures.

The representative of the State has pointed out that the UME, with 3,500 troops throughout the country, was created in 2005 by the Government presided over by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who has recognized that “strategic decision” despite the “criticisms” he obtained at that time.

“Today no one doubts the importance of the Military Emergency Unit. A collective success, a country success, a success of those who are brand Spain”, claimed the government delegate, who considered that today, 20 years later, “you see the value of that measure”.

“A measure that represented a before and an after in the history of the Army and our Armed Forces, which today are more present in the daily life of the Spanish and the Cantabrians,” he concluded.