Life at Culdrose: Survival equipment technician Georgia Clarke

Georgia is part of the team ensuring the flight crews have the properly maintained life-saving kit – her job could be a matter of life and death.

Aged 22, she has just come off a deployment on the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, returning to duties at the SE section of RNAS Culdrose three weeks ago.

"I am in a branch with few women," she said. "I think phase one (initial basic training) scares everyone because it's such a new environment. For instance: they make you do ironing – well, how many 20-year-olds know how to iron?

"They do give everyone a mentor and I had a female I could talk to which was a real help. Once you move on to the next stage of training, you are in a smaller organisation and everyone just accepts you and you are one of the team. I was the only women on my training course.

"You are not treated any differently and we're like a family. We're all together from the get-go."