Closing Ceremony of EPCOEM 2011/2
On September 16, 2011, the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center (acronym in Portuguese: CCOPAB) held at its Honor Room/Salão Nobre, the closing ceremony for the last version of the Preparatory Course for Unit Commanders and Combined Staff Officers/EPCOEM 2011-2.
The Course EPCOEM 2011-2 started on September 12 and lasted one week, during which the officers involved were offered intense activities and could interact with other military personnel who had just arrived from the peacekeeping mission in Haiti and reported them their experience there. The concluding participants of the course were 12 officers from the Brazilian Navy, 31 officers from the Brazilian Army and 01 officer from the Brazilian Air Force.
During the closing ceremony, those officers visited Sergio Vieira de Mello Cultural Facility which is placed at Avenida Duque de Caxias, 492 – Rio de Janeiro – RJ and presents two exhibitions: "Rondon – the Marshal of Peace", concerning his route of more than 77,000 kilometers through the Center-western and Northern regions of Brazil, and "Sports, Development and Peace" which reports the history of Sports practice in the Armed Forces.
Besides the Commander of CCOPAB COL Pedro Aurélio de Pessôa, the closing ceremony counted on the presences of Captain (Brazilian Marines) Alexandre Aballo Nunes, Deputy Commander of CCOPAB, and Lt. Col. (Brazilian Air Force) Salomão Pereira da Silva, Chief of the Doctrine Division of the Center.
