All tagged Mali

Corporal Gwenaëlle

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!”…

Corporal Jacqueline

Corporal Jacqueline always wanted “to wear a uniform.” As a teenager, her Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings were spent training as a young firefighter. So it was natural that her first choice of uniform was that worn by the Paris Fire Brigade which is actually a unit of the French Army but under the authority of the Paris prefect…