Special envoy to Sissonne
In his jeep, Lieutenant Guillaume remembers: "I ended up under a pile of rubble ... I almost went through it." Today, he is an instructor at the Urban Action Training Center (Cenzub) in Sissonne, in Aisne. But that day, on a mission in Afghanistan, he was under fire from the Taliban. "The enemy had settled in a" no fire area "to shoot us , " he continues, without remembering whether it was a mosque or a public building that French military doctrine and intimate western not to aim. Unless otherwise ordered. It had taken three confirmations of taking part, a hierarchical validation, and long minutes before the response was authorized. In the meantime, the soldier had been attacked. A few years later, he recounts the experience with a defiant smile. And he passes on his field experience to the soldiers who train in urban combat.
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