All tagged Ecole Navale

Lt. Commander Amandine

Funny, playful, jovial and dynamic, Amandine will doubtless have no trouble at all adapting to her new life this summer when she ends her 16-year career as a contract officer in the French Navy to join her military husband in the United States. So will begin a third professional life for this young mechanical engineer, who only joined the Navy in 2006 at the age of 27, "the ceiling" to sign-up as a contract officer…

Sub-Lieutenant Hélène

Sub-lieutenant Hélène is at the cusp of a career as a helicopter pilot in the French Navy. She should be fully qualified and a lieutenant by this summer, although, like almost everybody else in France right now, she is confined and not attending any more training sessions for the time being. She was outdoors as we spoke via FaceTime on a lovely spring day, her voice sometimes drowned by the twittering of the birds…