Navy celebrates female engineers

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Organised by the Women’s Engineering Society, the global awareness day seeks to raise the profile of women in engineering and highlight the amazing career opportunities available to women and girls in this exciting industry.

Sultan is home to the Defence School of Marine Engineering and the Royal Naval Air Engineering and Survival Equipment School where engineers and technicians are equipped with the skills to function as the ‘beating heart of operational capability’, maintaining, repairing, sustaining, and operating our aircraft, ships, submarines and vehicles daily on operations worldwide.

Chief Petty Officer ‘Lorry’ Osman is a divisional officer teaching air engineering to the sailors of tomorrow.

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