It is these essential strangers who make the mission of others possible. Tuesday, he will participate in Place de la Concorde in the military ceremony of July 14 which pays tribute to the personnel of the health service of the armies who were involved during the health crisis. Colonel Gilles * will march in the support regiment behind the doctors and nurses.
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"I had already paraded out of school like any student," said the military pharmacist in a modest voice. "But there, it is not the same. We will meet again. It's going to be good, ”he adds in his office at the Fort Neuf camp in Vincennes, just outside Paris. It was from there, as head of the “employment office of the operations division” of the SSA, that he followed most of the health crisis when it turned into a logistical challenge for the army.
"Géo Trouvetou"
On the wall, he hung a red “no entry” sign at the Mulhouse EMR, the field hospital deployed in March to receive coronavirus patients.
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