All tagged 1st Hunter Regiment
Anne-Laure thinks ahead and is well-organised. Enlisted in the French Army since 2015, she has just recently signed a second six-year contract, a year longer than her first one. Until earlier this year she was the only female gun-turret operator in the 1st Hunter Regiment. But, at the end of 2020, knowing full well that squeezing around the interior of a Leclerc tank is not practicable for a pregnant woman, she requested a job more suited to a personal situation she was planning for 2021. And it’s a good thing she did because she and her partner’s plans to start a family are coming to fruition. Baby Jules should make his appearance in early November…
Titaua (pronounce Titawa with emphasis on the first syllable) left her native island of Taha’a (between Tahiti and Bora-Bora in French Polynesia) at 19, swapping her sarong for army fatigues. Ten years later she was an NRBC mechanic (nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical) in the 1st hunter regiment (1er régiment de chasseurs). “I wasn't too interested in studying and wanted to do something instead of spending my days hanging around outdoors. On top of which I didn’t want to stay in Polynesia and wanted to be closer to my sister, who’d been adopted in France,” she says. Some of her acquaintances, who were in the reserves, “encouraged me, helped me with the application formalities and prepared me, especially for the physical part by making me run and do suspensions,” she laughs…
Lucie is the only platoon commander in the 1st Hunter Regiment (régiment de chasseurs) in Thierville-sur-Meuse near Verdun in north-east France. The tool she works with weighs some 55 tonnes, is 3m60 wide and 3m06 high. Despite this imposing size, the working space inside the Leclerc battle tank, because this is the tool in question, is extremely tight. Having had the good fortune to ride in a Leclerc a few years ago, I speak from experience…
