All tagged 1st Spahis Regiment
Malia was 18 and looking for adventure. She found it in Valence, at the foot of the French Alps more than 22,000 km, a 36-hour flight and an 11 hour time difference from her home. The young woman, today a radio transmitter and top-performing athlete, was born and raised on Wallis, which, together with the islands of Futuna and Alofi, form a French overseas collectivity in the Pacific Ocean…
For two years Corporal Gwenaëlle of the 1st Spahis Regiment was the only woman in the 'amphibious engagement support platoon', the regiment's amphibious combat and intelligence unit. But having held on for that long and done a lot of hard thinking, she's now left this mounted combat unit (…) because “it's extremely tiring, it's really exhausting me and it requires you to make many, many sacrifices.” In addition she thinks she's “too much of a burden” for her comrades in arms. But she stresses that if she had to do it again “I would do exactly the same thing. I didn't join up for a calm life!”…
