MADRID, 22 (SERVIMEDIA)
The Council of Ministers appointed this Tuesday Colonel Loreto Gutiérrez Hurtado, of the Corps of Engineers of the Air and Space Army (EA), Brigadier General, the fourth woman to be promoted to the highest position in the Spanish Armed Forces, and the first of the EA.
As reported by the Ministry of Defense, General Hurtado, born in 1970, until now had been the head of the Transport Aircraft and Maritime Patrol Section of the Logistics Support Command of the Air Force.
An Aeronautical Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, she entered the General Air Academy in 1996. Among the different posts she has held, it is worth noting the Engineering and Quality Section of Wing 35, at the Getafe Air Base; the Maintenance Directorate of the Logistics Support Command of the EA; the Armament and Materiel Directorate as technical director of the A400M and MRTT (transport aircraft/multipurpose tanker) programs and the Plans Division of the EA General Staff.
In addition, the new brigadier general has participated in various detachments abroad in Indonesia, Afghanistan and Chad, peacekeeping operations for which she was awarded merit badges.
Among the courses it has include the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the High Logistics Management, Program Management or Investigation of Aircraft Accidents and Incidents and Environmental Management, as well as the international course ‘Air Battle Damage Repair’.
Likewise, he has several decorations, such as the Cross and Commendation of the Royal and Military Order of San Hermenegildo, four Crosses for Aeronautical Merit with white distinctive, NATO ISAF Medal, Medal for the Service of the European Security and Defense Policy and Medal Commemorative of Operation ‘Balmis’.
Loreto Gutiérrez joins the group of women promoted to general inaugurated in 2019 by another engineer, the current Major General Patricia Ortega, of the Army Polytechnic Engineers Corps. In 2021, she was promoted to General Auditor Begoña Aramendía, of the Military Legal Corps, and the third was on July 14, María Teresa Gordillo, of the Military Intervention Corps.
(SERVIMEDIA)22-AUG-2023 14:28 (GMT 2)MGN/clc
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