Amandine joined the French Army's Ad Hoc Regiment of Chad* as a mechanic when she was 19. That was two years ago. It was a period when many youngsters chose to join the armed forces or the police in the wake of a series of terrorist attacks in France. But “my choice was not inspired by these attacks,” she explains. It was simply that she has a vocational certificate in automobile mechanics and a vocational bacalaureate and thought the army might be the best place to exericise her talents as a mechanic…