All tagged bomb disposal

Sergeant Charlotte

Sometimes parents don't realize that the news on TV can have a strong impression on their young children and even determine their career path. This is what happened to Charlotte, struck as a small child by images of the Gulf War and today a bomb disposal expert. “I really think it was these images that made me decide to join the military. Anyway, I don't remember ever wanting to do anything other than being in the military,” she says with a quick smile…

Chief Petty Officer Hélène

It was the lapel pin with two dolphins on it worn by some of her crew-mates aboard her first ship that alerted Hélène to a job she'd never heard of: navy diver. A few years after first spotting them she became the first woman to successfully complete the French Navy's gruelling bomb disposal diver course and is currently one of only three female bomb disposal divers on the force…