Cividale del Friuli
Two of the three brigades were Alpini mountain infantry brigades - the "Julia" Alpine Brigade in Cividale del Friuli and "Tridentina" Alpine Brigade in Brixen; the third was the "Ariete" Armoured Brigade in Pordenone. Exercise "Italic Weld", a combined air-naval-ground exercise in northern Italy involving the United States, Italy, Turkey, and Greece, appears to have been one of the first exercises in which the new Italian Army orientation was tested.