He achieved great public notoriety when, on 6 November 1975, he faced the Green March; the event, organized by King Hassan II of Morocco, saw approximately 350,000 unarmed Moroccan civilians invading the territory.

[3] There he would have to organize a preventive defense, estimating that in case of violence there would be about 30,000 casualties, taking responsibility after an emergency evacuation and demilitarization operation after the signing of the Madrid Accords, process that would conclude in January 1976.

In January 1977 he was appointed Captain General of the I Military Region [es] (Madrid), a position in which he remained until September 1978.

On 23 September 1981 he joined the Tribunal set up by the Supreme Council of Military Justice to try the participants of the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt (Case 2/81), having to assume its presidency due to illness of previous President, Lieutenant General Luis Álvarez Rodríguez, and continued in the role until he moved to the reserve, on 3 March 1982.

[5] Among the units in which Gómez de Salazar served are the 37th Infantry Regiment, the Regulares of Ceuta, the General Staff of the 31st Division, the Central General Staff, the military attachés of the Spanish embassies in Turkey, Greece and Iran, the Infantry Regiment of Badajoz and the Higher School of the Army.