Military Service
- Fulfilled in the Hellenic Artillery from 29 March 2000 to 29 March 2001.
- After going through boot camp in the Artillery Training Center in Thebes, was initially sent to the 180 HAWK Guided Surface-to-Air Missile Battalion until June 2000.
- Subsequently served as executive secretary to the Director of Hellenic Artillery Major General Pantelis Mavrodopoulos from July 2000 to March 2001. Duties included:
- The handling of all official and unofficial correspondence
- Producing translations of correspondence, articles and other documents of interest to and from English
- Writing up summaries of foreign military press postings of interest
- Dealing with all computer related tasks (scanning, e-mail, compiling CD-ROMs of interesting material etc.)
- Typing all of the Director's recommendations to the General Staff
- Compiling the weekly briefings for the Directorate
- Handling the phones and keeping the Director's schedule and messages