Zineb Ziani Abou-Zite is a computer engineer and forensics expert. Our paths crossed at an exhibition where she was demonstrating the mobile lab that she’s helped to develop for the French gendarmerie. She’s not a gendarme herself but because she works with them and has an unusual background,..
She thought she'd be an army dog-handler. But instead, Lt Alicia* is a French Army helicopter pilot. She flies the Puma, a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-size utility helicopter. Alicia is only 24 but her maturity, drive and focus are astonishing…
“The U.S. Navy argued for years that combat missions were too dangerous for women, but it wasn't concerned with us flying the oldest aircraft in the military!” Fifteen years after retiring from a 20-year career as a Naval Flight Officer, former Lt. Commander Linda Maloney is still baffled…
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…
Orange is not a colour that suits many people. But Justine wears her orange boiler-suit proudly because it shows that she is involved in flight testing. From pilot to engineer, all those involved in flight testing wear orange so that should things go horribly wrong and they have to eject from the aircraft, rescuers will find them more easily…
Colonel Anne-Cécile Ortemann will, this summer, be promoted to General, only the third woman in the history of the French Army to obtain this rank. You will have to address her as “Madame le général” rather than “Madame la générale” “because rank has no sex” she says…
