By the time she turns 28, Honorine will already have 10 years of professional life under her belt, enough experience to easily find work in the civilian world when her contract with the French Navy ends. Pragmatic, this bubbly young mother of a two-year-old boy, already knows that she’ll leave the institution in 2026. “In the Navy we are transferred every three years. My husband is also in the Navy, so with a child, we considered that it was preferable for one of us to leave…”