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Charlène, a dog handler in the 132nd Dog Handling Infantry Regiment, was working in a large book-shop in northern France during the wave of terrorist attacks that swept through France in 2015 and 2016. Already attracted by the physical activity an army career would promise and brought up on stories told by her father about his military service in Germany, she realised it was decision-making time…
Don’t think that registering with your local job centre is a waste of time. Because this is how Kathleen – somewhat unusually for someone in the military – began her career in the army when she was almost 27 years old. Today she’s an air-traffic controller and instructor in the 3rd Combat Helicopter Regiment of the French Army…
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…
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…
Warrant Officer Erika is one of the very few female firearms' instructors in the French Army. And she didn't get there by chance. “You have to go for it, you have to dare,” she stresses, “and, as a woman, you have to be prepared to always prove more things, be prepared to be looked at by everybody and judged much more than a man is…
