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Mauritania - Military Personnel

The National Navy witnessed on July 11th 2007 an extraordinary event in the history of the National Army. That was the graduation of group of female corporals which was result of the efforts which lasted for almost two years. That constituted an unprecedented experience and typical transformation in the nature of the training and the quality of the trained. The pioneers of this successful experience were an elite of responsibles of the National Navy.

On the first day of July 2005, the Army Staff decided to recruit women to be in the National Army. Because of the type of work which the task requires and the dedication that means, there were legitimate fears and therefore some concerns over the ability of women.

So the efforts, in the first phase, consentrated on the moral training to adopt the climate of the barraks as well as to uproot laziness and dependency on one hand and to give them a civil mentality. These efforts were coupled with campaigns for sensitizing the members of the Navy to create the ideal climate which will program the female personal on the true military values. Everything was done perfectly. Next they started the basic training which was set by the Third Bureau. The moral and religious regulators were taken into consideration to ensure for the female soldier her dignity and legitimate rights. Despite the physical and psychological suffering the military personal live during such training, the determination fueled them to complete this training which is just a copy of the one the males undergo.

The third phase was designed to improve the linguistic competency of these female soldiers. It lasted three months. During these three months, they studied special program to be prepared for the coming specializing period. In the last phase, there was a cooperation and coordination between the Navy and the department of Health. Tewenty-eight female soldiers gained the first and second technic deploma in health while 22 female soldiers got first and second deploma accountancy.

The training was a daily struggle for each of one of them to make them accustomed to the military course. And also to convince the community to accept the reality that necessitate more efforts from the woman as well as readiness and hardworking alike. That become reality because of the cooperation between the trainers and the trained. This success pushed the former chief of National Army Staff the Colonel Abderhman Ould Boubakar to notice this remarcable achievement. The amalgamation of the women in the National Army is a symbolisation of the policies of the president; the suprem chief of the Armed Forces. These policies aim to promote the level of the women in the community and the process of national construction , he said.

The cermony took place in the presence of the foreign defense attachees in addition to the heads of some bureaus in the Army Staff and represantatives of the National Gendarmerie (Country Police) and Guard. At the end, the former chief of Staff, accompanied by the invitees, were given presentation by the female graduated. These presentations included exercises on the first aids and the weapon assembling and disassembling.