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The Brest Naval Training Centre (the ''Centre d'instruction naval de Brest'', or ''CIN'') is one of the main training centres for the
French Navy The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces i ...
. Housed in the Brest naval base, the CIN is made up of the
lycée naval The Brest Naval Training Centre (the ''Centre d'instruction naval de Brest'', or ''CIN'') is one of the main training centres for the French Navy. Housed in the Brest naval base, the CIN is made up of the lycée naval (a lycée that also prepar ...
(a
lycée In France, secondary education is in two stages: * ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14. * ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for students between ...
that also prepares students to enter France's officer-training schools), the
École de maistrance The Brest Naval Training Centre (the ''Centre d'instruction naval de Brest'', or ''CIN'') is one of the main training centres for the French Navy. Housed in the Brest naval base, the CIN is made up of the lycée naval (a lycée that also prepare ...
(training future naval
non-commissioned officer A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is an enlisted rank, enlisted leader, petty officer, or in some cases warrant officer, who does not hold a Commission (document), commission. Non-commissioned officers usually earn their position of authority b ...
s) and the seamen's training school.


The environment

The Naval Instruction Centre groups the ''Lycée Naval'' (a naval high school), the ''École de Maistrance'' (training the future Navy's sub-officers) and the ''École des Mousses'' (seaman's school). This centre is above the Naval base.


''Lycée Naval''

The ''lycée naval'' was created in 1966 as ''collège naval''. It is one of France's six military high schools under custody of the French ministry of Defence. The school has two missions: to help the families and to help the Navy's recruitment. The lycée naval is divided in two parts separated for the teaching: *The "Lycée" (high school), which groups the three French years of high school in two specialties of general teaching: sciences and a section about social and economics. *The preparatory classes with the principal aim to prepare the students for the admission exams for officers in the Navy, Army and Air Force. But also the preparatory class to superior studies which has a level superior to the A-Level but not as hard as the preparatory classes.


History


Admission's conditions

*The recruitment for the first year of high school is made by a written exam (maths, French and English/German). It is a common requirement for all military high schools apart from the Air Force. *The recruitment for the preparatory classes is made upon results during the last year of High School.


''École de Maistrance''

The ''École de maistrance'' (school of mastery) is the training school for future
non-commissioned officer A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is an enlisted rank, enlisted leader, petty officer, or in some cases warrant officer, who does not hold a Commission (document), commission. Non-commissioned officers usually earn their position of authority b ...
s in the
French Navy The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces i ...
. It was set up in 1933 under this name, it is now part of the Brest Naval Training Centre and within the remit of the ''Direction du personnel militaire de la marine'' (DPPM). It is currently headed by '' capitaine de frégate'' Gabriel Steffe. The school has an annual intake of up to 400 young people aged 18 to 25, from ''"bac à bac +2"'' level - on 14 July 2008, for example, it had 224 students in total, including 55 women. The initial course lasts 18 weeks, followed by 6 months' specialist training (3.5 years for medical students) and 3 weeks complementary training in management. Students wear the rank badge of a ''"second maître maistrancier"'' (equivalent to quartermaster, 1st class), with the blue stripes bordered in red, and become '' second maîtres'' on graduation. In 1958 the École de maistrance received the banner of the École des mousses, decorated with the
Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...
, the Croix de guerre 1914-1918, the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 and the
Croix de guerre des Théâtres d'opérations extérieures The (; "War Cross for Foreign Operational Theatres"), also called the for short, is a French military award denoting citations earned in combat in foreign countries. The Armistice of November 11, 1918 ended the war between France and Germa ...
.


''École des Mousses''

The ''École des Mousses'' (Seaman's school) has a co-educational role of 240 each year. The school trains future sailors of the ''Marine nationale'', the French navy. It was founded in 1856 by Napoleon III.


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