For the traditional military parade of July 14, a real organizational feat, some 5,000 participants will parade.

Among them, aspirants from the brand new Military School of Coëtquidan, who have already studied or even held positions in very different sectors.

Europe 1 went to their rehearsal.

Return to "normal" for the July 14 military parade.

This year, some 5,000 participants will parade, including 4,300 on foot, on the occasion of a national holiday whose chosen theme is: "Gagner l'Avenir".

For many of these participants, this is a first and often moving.

Among these soldiers will be those of the brand new school of aspirants of Coëtquidan (EMAC), which recruits young people who have studied and sometimes even have professional experience.

Europe 1 met them during rehearsals for the parade.

A parade regulated like music paper, the preparation of which required no less than ten months of work.

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Click after the Nice attacks

Aspiring Anaïs is 31 years old, but only ten months in the army. The young woman with the dazzling smile is about to become Section Head, and therefore to command. "I have a master's degree in management, a bachelor's degree in pharmaceuticals and I worked for a CAC 40 company for six years before joining me", she tells the microphone of Europe 1. "I do not think I found more in the values ​​of my company, the business strategy had completely changed and that did not suit me. "

This radical change of life, Anaïs decided on it after having had a click following the attacks of July 14, 2016 in Nice, where she is present.

“These are actions that amaze me,” she said.

"Especially as a civilian: you feel helpless, you don't know what to do, and today, it gives a sense of being able to act against this kind of fact".

An organizational feat

Alongside the 5,000 participants, 300 vehicles and 200 horses will also parade, all in rhythm for two hours.

A real organizational feat which required ten months of work under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer Thierry, of the office of the military governor of Paris.

"My job is to make the July 14 parade as fluid as possible because it is made up of five different parades: planes, troops on foot, helicopters, motorized troops and mounted troops", details he at the microphone of Europe 1. "We are adapting precisely to these flows because the speed of an Alpha Jet is not the speed of a man walking with a weapon which is 116 steps per minute. We are trying precisely to avoid all the blanks that could be done between the various parades, "he continues, defining himself as" the guardian of the temple ", and specifying to provide himself with chronometers for this.