If you didn’t already know it, Naval Air Station Sigonella has an extensive community relations program, and it conducts over 200 COMREL events annually throughout Sicily. Whether it’s helping to clean up a beach, painting school facilities, rehabbing churches, or practicing English speaking skills with Italian students, it’s a small way that we can say “thank you” to our host nation for being our close partners and allies.

Recently, culinary specialists attached to U.S. Naval Hospital Sigonella had the unique opportunity to not only help Italian culinary students practice their conversational English, but also learn the Sicilian pasta-cooking techniques.