The general in chief of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), Javier Marcos, has in recent days become the target of criticism from the creators of hoaxes and from the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, who accuses him of lying and not doing enough. But the truth is that we find itcoordinating the largest recorded peacetime military deployment in Spainthe one who manages DANA’s emergency work. Which he described as “madness”, because of “the magnitude it has” and assured that “my soldiers do not rest.”
The operation is made up of more than eight thousand soldiers and two thousand assets from the Army, Air Force, Navy and Royal Guard. An unprecedented spectacle that Marcos always recounted calmly: “We cannot add chaos to an absolutely chaotic situation.”
He took office on August 16. and a few hours later he was already faced with the management of the fire which destroyed almost 40 thousand hectares in Tenerife. Furthermore, it was Head of Operations of the Spanish Unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina and participated in missions in Lebanon or Afghanistan.
He has a military career that has been growing, step by step, since He is accused of having gone from brigadier general to lieutenant general without having gone through the post of division general.. Which is downright false, since in 2019 he was promoted to brigadier general, in 2023 to major general and a year later, in 2024, to lieutenant general, as indicated in the Official State Gazette. And despite the criticism and speculation, his message has always been the same: “I ask you to be calm, “We will be with all the Valencians without rest, until the end.”
