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Spanish admiral general

Antonio Martorell Lacave is a Spanish Navy admiral general who currently serves as Admiral Chief of Staff of the Navy since February 2021.[1]

Lacave is a veteran submarine, NATO and admiral general of the Spanish Navy (Spanish: Almirante general). He was born on August 22, 1960 in Bilbao. His father had served in Navy Corps of Engineers as a captain.[2] He enrolled in Marín’s Naval Academy Pontevedra in 1979 and was commissioned as an officer after he graduated in 1984. He subsequently served on frigates, corvettes and minesweepers. He served as commander of the Minesweeper Miño and the NATO Standing Countermine Measures Group No. 2. He served in the Amphibious Assault Ship Castilla, 2nd Minesweeper Squadron as executive. He has lectured at the Armed Forces Higher School. He also served as chief in Torpedoes Workshop Cartagena Shipyard.[3]

He served in the Directorate General for Defense Policy of European Union as chief executive. He served at NATO Joint General HQ, Naples in the exercise division. After he was promoted to rear admiral was in 2014, he served at the Logistics Division of the Naval Staff Defence HQ as head until April 2015.[4][failed verification]

He commanded the Naval Action Group 2 for several years before becoming Admiral of Naval Action, and he oversaw Operation Atalanta and Maritime HQ of Alta as commander. He was promoted to vice admiral in 2020 and became Admiral of the fleet in May 2020.[5] He became Chief of Staff of the Navy in February 2021, succeeding Admiral General Teodoro López Calderón (although Fausto Escrigas Rodríguez had been serving in an acting capacity at the time).[1]

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Badges

  • Spanish Armed Forces Peacekeeping Operations Merit Badge.svg Peace Operations Badge

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b

    Infodefensa.com, Revista Defensa (2021-02-09). “El almirante Antonio Martorell, nuevo jefe de la Armada – Noticias Infodefensa España”. Infodefensa.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-02-09. Retrieved 2021-07-25.

  2. ^ Terradillos, Ana (2021-02-09). “El almirante Antonio Martorell Lacave, nuevo jefe de la Armada”. Cadena SER (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  3. ^ Cádiz, Diario de (2021-02-09). “Antonio Martorell, almirante de la Flota, es el nuevo jefe de la Armada”. Diario de Cádiz (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  4. ^ “Martorell Lacave, un almirante para salir a flote en tiempos difíciles”. Leonoticias (in Spanish). 2021-03-13. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  5. ^ Navy, Spanish. “Chief of Staff of the Spanish Navy – Who Is Who – Armada Española – Ministerio de Defensa – Gobierno de España”. armada.defensa.gob.es. Retrieved 2021-07-25.