A-Infos (en) France, OCL-lamouette enragee: Go to sea (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Fond of prestigious buttons attached to the name of the city of 
Boulogne-sur-mer, the mayor is now going martial. After he chatted "on 
the sidelines" of his visit with the Commander of the Navy of Dunkirk, 
Jean-Louis Marcourel, it is said that a Navy Military Preparation Center 
(PMM) will be established somewhere in the area .(1) ---- The daily La 
Voix du Nord highlights the ".gouv" language elements: "The PMM is open 
to young people aged 16 to 21 of all educational levels wishing to 
benefit from a military and maritime internship with theoretical and 
practical training.[...]The course allows young people to better 
understand the maritime world through visits, safety exercises and 
navigation. They are spread over a school year, with one session per 
week and a stay of a few days on a naval base. At the end of the 
preparation, young people can, depending on the needs of the Navy, join 
the reserve in different professions (marine rifleman, marine 
firefighter, etc.)."

Presented this way, the program and its opportunities resemble a BAFA 
(2) sailing and first aid option course. And to retain only the single 
unambiguous word "riflefighter" would amount to settling for an 
antimilitarist diatribe of good quality but too easy and, above all, 
seen through the small end of the telescope.

From school breeding grounds to marine farming

It is not new for the Ministry of Current or Future Wars to flirt with 
young people on the notice boards of their high schools. The ongoing 
restructuring of National Education first, the difficulty of finding a 
job in line with one's skills - even if one had done Parcours sup' with 
one's fingers in one's nose - then, or finally not being registered - e 
in the catalog of professions in shortage make access to working life an 
obstacle course.

At the same time - we cannot do it too well - Attal, new first in the 
ministerial class, just out of his National Education costume, visits 
Ménard, "rather right-wing" (!) mayor of Béziers (3 ) as part of the 
school uniform experiment. A good idea in these times. "Equality" has 
little cost: EUR200 per head paid by the State and the municipality. And 
the shoes, indicative of social extraction, sneakers or tasseled moccasins?
And then the demographic rearmament multiplied by 200 will end up 
costing a crazy amount of money.

Boulogne is not a candidate city; Ambleteuse, Le Touquet (who would have 
thought it?) and Marck are.

Furthermore, in the same way that we can read in a secondary school 
project that it intends to train teenagers to "meet the needs of 
businesses", here it is a question of "integrating the reserve into 
different professions" of the French Navy "according to its needs".

Russian dolls and Chinese puzzles

That's good, since the end of compulsory military service (4), we only 
see sworn specialists intervening in theaters of operations. But the 
fight scenes multiply, intensify and get closer. And the rich source of 
a youth, once called up from the contingent, could well come to run out, 
according to the barely secret statements of a few high-flying stars or 
politicians who have not had their war, if only than colonial.

Also, among the lot and first and foremost, Macron lets himself listen 
to himself speak by evoking a possible intervention of European troops 
in Ukraine, against the advice of Europe and NATO.
But at the same time, diplomats, high-ranking general staff and the 
intelligence services of around ten Western countries are raising the 
possibility of a major conflict. Indeed, the joint proclamation of 
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping (5) of their unwavering alliance (for the 
moment) cannot be understood other than in the face of the West. Thus, 
tensions risk escalating in the Black, Baltic and four or five other 
seas of the Arctic Polar Ocean - the seas of China and Japan being 
particularly discouraged these days due to regular joint maneuvers (6) 
Russian and Chinese fleets.

From the green path to the blue waves

Young people who left civilian school too early and are looking for a 
job see a future in the French Navy. Certainly, Mururoa and Djibouti no 
longer make you dream.
The all-out rearmament policy initiated by Macron can only couple the 
war economy with a reserve of young men and women ready to embark, their 
training under their arms.

We don't know where the PMM center will be housed - there isn't even a 
"sailor's home" anymore and we're not going to sink the Le Portel 
maritime high school... Oh, by the way! Wasn't that enough of a training 
venue?

Whatever in itself, Boulonnais sailors, there will only be the 
footbridge to cross to get some work done. Like your ancestors, from the 
fishing days.
And then you might come across a cruise ship. And you will quickly dream 
of leaving the hassle...

Boulogne sur Mer March 5, 2024

(1) La Voix du Nord of February 22
(2) Certificate of aptitude for the functions of facilitator
(3) Le Canard Enchaîné of February 28
(4) suspended by the law of October 28, 1997
(5) Le Monde online from March 22, 2023
(6) especially last summer: Videos. Russia and China share naval 
military exercises, should we be worried? (sudouest.fr)

https://lamouetteenragee.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/05/va-t-en-mer/
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