Brigadier General Normando Costantino (born 1952) is a former Chief of the General Staff of the

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. He has a degree in Air and Space Systems.

Early life

Costantino was born on March 18, 1952, in Rio Cuarto, where his father was the mayor and his mother a dancer.

Career

Costantino is a veteran of the 1982 Falklands War ( es, Guerra de las Malvinas), where he fought as an

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pilot although his only two missions were aborted (one because a VHF radio problem and the other an aerial refueling failure from the KC-130 Hercules) In November 2006, he was appointed as the overall commander of the Air Force following

Eduardo Schiaffino Eduardo Schiaffino (1858-1935) was an Argentine painter, critic, intellectual and historian. A member of a group known as the ''Generation of '80'', he founded the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and sparked the development of pai ...

's dismissal by the senior Argentine political leadership. In July 2013, he was replaced by Mario Miguel Callejo.

References

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