This week's Face of the Base meets a woman whose job could be a matter of life and death.

Survival equipment technician Georgia Clarke is part of the team ensuring the flight crews have the properly maintained life-saving kit.

Aged 22, she has just come off a deployment on the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, returning to duties at the survival equipment 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.”