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Commandant’s Foreword ........................................3 Exercise ACROPHOBIA CADET ..............................4 Exercise AZURE CADET..........................................5 Exercise CARINTHIAN CADET: Behind the scenes ..7 Exercise CHARGERS CADET – Big Bear Lake ........8 Exercise GOLEM CADET.......................................10 Exercise GLACIAL THOR CADET ..........................11 Exercise HASHEMITE CADET................................15 Exercise HIGHLAND CADET .................................17 Exercise LANISTER CADET – Big Bear AT.............18 Exercise POLAR CADET .......................................20 Exercise SCOTCH CADET.....................................21 Exercise SOLENT CADET......................................25 Exercise STOWAWAY CADET ...............................26 Exercise TEXAN CADET .......................................27 Exercise TIDE CADET............................................28 Exercise VIKING CADET........................................31 The Sandhurst Cup, 2017 .....................................32 Exercise APPENNINE CADET................................35 Exercise ARDECHE CADET...................................36 Exercise ARNHEM CADET ....................................37 Exercise CHAMONIX CADET.................................39 Exercise CORSICAN CADET .................................41 Exercise EYRI TROT AT.........................................42 Exercise GLEN CADET..........................................44 Exercise NEPTUNE CADET...................................45 Exercise ORDESA CADET.....................................46 Exercise PYRENEAN PIONEER .............................47 Exercise SLIM WARRIOR .....................................49 Exercise SNOWDON SCRAMBLE CADET.............50 Exercise SRETAN PUT...........................................52 Exercise VOLCANIC BUMP CADET.......................53 Exercise ALICANTE CADET ..................................55 Exercise ALPINE CARVER CADET .......................56 Exercise BEDOUIN CADET....................................57 Exercise CYPRIOT CADET ....................................59 Exercise ICEBREAKER CADET..............................60 Exercise LINGE CADET.........................................61 Exercise MALTA STINGRAY CADET ......................62 Exercise MOUNTAIN TRAIL ..................................63 Exercise PETRA CADET .......................................65 Exercise ROOKIE CADET ......................................66
Exercise STILLE NACHT CADET The Daily Diary ...67
Exercise TIDAL DRIFT CADET
Cyprus 16-22 December 2017.........................69
Exercise TOURING THORENS CADET..................71 Exercise WINTERWALKING CADET ......................71 Inter-Services Cross Country .................................75 RMAS Women’s Rugby vs AGC/ Army –
9 August 2017..................................................76
Junior Term Sports ................................................77
Sandhurst Rackets Tournament 2017....................78
‘No Plan Survives First Contact’.............................79
Weeks one to five: the Ultimate Survival Guide.......81
Exercise LONG REACH A Cadet’s Perspective......83
First Impressions ...................................................83
Holocaust Memorial Day........................................85
Exercise ALLENBY’S ADVANCE............................85
Exercise SLIM’S STAND........................................87
Inkerman Company...............................................87
Waterloo Company Morning Prayers Address........88
Alamein Company Charity Ball...............................89
Borneo Charity Ball................................................90
Regimental Selection Boards.................................90
16th Annual Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) Competition for Military Academies...................92
What’s in a Story?..................................................93
Selfless Commitment
In response to Philippians 2:1–7.......................97
Borneo Coy Reflection...........................................98
Lucknow: Building teams as we go along – Lucknow Platoon.............................................................99
PQO Course – A Weight on My Shoulders...........101
Andrew Orgill, BA MA ALA Senior Librarian at Sandhurst 1987–2017....................................102
SANDHURST TRUST 105
The Sandhurst Trust 2017 – Fast Forward ...........105
FOR THE RECORD 109 HISTORICAL 135
The life and times of Major General John Gaspard Le Marchant, founder of the Royal Military College (1766–1812) ..................................................135
Famous Friday.....................................................142
A Visit to the Haidar Pasha Cemetery at Scutari, Turkey ............................................................146
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