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To: AFreeBird
The British system assumes you have a university degrees or don't need it. Sandhurst turns them out in 18 months. So does our National Guard.
8 posted on 08/31/2006 6:23:54 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: GAB-1955
The British system assumes you have a university degrees or don't need it. Sandhurst turns them out in 18 months. So does our National Guard.

Sorry, when I hear military academy, I think West Point, Annapolis, or Colorado Springs.

Like I said I can appreciate the need for the Iraqi's to have their own officer core out there. And this is a very good start, but they better work on something long term, that will turn out well trained, educated and disciplined, honorable leaders, that are beholden to their country and people (of all stripes), and not to the cult of death.

But major kudo's to the genesis and initial grads of a fledgling Iraqi military establishment and our British brethren for starting the process.

10 posted on 08/31/2006 9:30:09 PM PDT by AFreeBird (If American "cowboy diplomacy" did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.)
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