AcademyFriend1
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I watched an interesting BBC documentary on Sandhurst, the British Military Academy (not the Sandhurst competition at West Point, named for the British institution). Sandhurst is an 11th month officer training program for the British Army; it is all military and does not include the college aspect of our American service academies. I found it particularly interesting because in the early 1990s I went with a USMC observation group to spend a few days at Sandhurst, with the goal of observing if there were elements of it that could/should be incorporated into the Basic School. It was an interesting place -- really impressive training but a little bit elitist (almost all of the officer candidates had gone to high school at the equivalent of boarding schools like Andover and Exeter in the States). It seems a bit more democratic now from watching the video. Anyway, I've attempted (not sure I did it right) to post a link to the first episode on YouTube if anyone is interested:
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmXGW6gtmqA
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmXGW6gtmqA
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